37 PLAYS in Cornwall

As part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s search for 37 plays, Hall for Cornwall and The Writers’ Block are running a series of workshops between August and December 2022 led by some of Cornwall’s finest playwrights.

Comedy Writing with Jon Nash 
This workshop puts character at the heart of things: the people we write, the situations we put them in and how to push the comedy until the audiences are rolling in the aisles (in a good way!)
Liskerrett Centre: 17 September
Hall for Cornwall: 24 September
10.00 – 4.00pm
Book Here: www.hallforcornwall.co.uk/get-creative/shakespeare-nation

Sense of Place with Callum Mitchell
A strong sense of place is crucial to all forms of storytelling, allowing audiences to fully immerse themselves in the world you wish to create. Callum will guide participants through the essential elements that help distinguish place, and how a fully-realised setting can inform and establish character, plot, dialogue and more.
Liskerrett Centre: 8 October
Hall for Cornwall: 5 October
10.00 – 4.00pm

Turning Ideas into Text with Jenni Fletcher
A workshop for people who don’t think they’re writers. Explore different ways to communicate an idea at its best and how to enable other mediums like movement or music in the writing to enhance a narrative and draw out unique qualities of the work.
Liskerrett Centre: 19 October
Hall for Cornwall: 22 October
10.00 – 4.00pm

Holding up a Mirror to the World with Mike Shepherd
“Theatre needs to be relevant, funny, sad, shocking, challenging, entertaining, a bit rude and not too long!” An evening workshop with Mike Shepherd whose recent shows Calvino Nights, Ubu, Tin Drum and Dead Dog in a Suitcase have been all of these things.
Kneehigh Barns, Gorran Haven: 26 October
6.00 – 9.00pm

Finding the Framework with Simon Harvey
The idea of sitting down to write ‘a play’ can be an overwhelming. Look at how to collate and order ideas, themes, images and restrictions to develop a framework around which to layer and build into a play.
Liskerrett Centre: 11 November
Hall for Cornwall: 10 November
10.00 – 4.00pm

Writing for Large Casts with Jon Welch
The workshop will cover how to curate a group, how to balance ‘challenge’ with a realistic chance of success and how to work with a variety of participants who have different challenges and strengths.
Liskerrett Centre: 19 November
Hall for Cornwall: 18 November
10.00 – 4.00pm

Making the Ordinary Extraordinary with Anna Murphy
Based on Anna’s experience of the Rambles project “Walk with Me”, walking the roads less travelled from Penzance to Bogota, collecting stories from people met on the way, the workshop will look at how you as a writer might honour stories based on peoples lives.
Hall for Cornwall: 26 November
10.00 – 4.00pm

Dramaturge with Sarah Dickinson
Starting a play for the first time can be daunting. Explore the drafting process of a new play, how you can build it iteratively, and the ways you can enjoy your strengths and build on the areas you find more challenging.
Online: 1 December
6.00 – 8.00pm

December Sharing Event
A get together to share your writing, ideas and challenges with others.
Date TBA…

The invitation to write a play will open for submissions in January 2023 with the final collection of 37 plays being shared in 2023.

The workshops are free but booking is essential as places are limited
Book: www.hallforcornwall.co.uk/get-creative/shakespeare-nation

For further information: email [email protected]
or visit: www.37plays.co.uk