Miller Performing Arts: Pull Back the Curtain 2016 - Seeking Participants

The city's most innovative English youth scriptwriting initiative Pull Back the Curtain returns! Join us to put pen to paper and let us help you bring your scriptwriting ideas to life.
 
Through a series of six workshops led by professional theatre director and playwright Clare Stearns, Pull Back the Curtain 2016 will guide you towards writing your own original 30-minute play. This year, we will focus on great 21st century contemporary English language writers, including Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; film Shakespeare in Love) and Dennis Kelly (Matilda The Musical), and multi-roling – the concept of one actor playing more than one character onstage.

At the end of the programme, three scripts will receive a staged reading and the play with the most promise will be transformed into a theatre production in May/June 2016.

This programme is suitable for participants aged 14 to 25 with a keen interest in theatre and writing. To apply, please complete the online registration form and submit a writing sample in the form of a one A4 page (single-spaced, font size 11) English theatre script. Places will be allocated to selected applicants.

Workshops
#1: 17 Feb, 6 – 8pm
#2: 24 Feb, 6 – 8pm
#3: 2 Mar, 6 – 8pm
#4: 9 Mar, 6 – 8pm
#5: 16 Mar, 6 – 8pm
#6: 13 Apr, 6 – 8pm

TAGS:
Theatre, Workshop, Literary Arts, Performing Arts, Storytelling, Scriptwriting