Waste Words - recycling research into performance
14 November 2019, 12:45 pm–2:15 pm
Introductory playwriting session for anyone interested in recycling their current, or discarded, research into shiny new performance.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Institute of Advanced Studies
Location
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IAS ForumGround floor, South Wing, ¹û¶³Ó°ÔºLondonWC1E 6BT
Nicola Baldwin, playwright and ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Creative Fellow,Ìýis working with Dr Pushpa Arabindoo of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Geography, and ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Urban Laboratory, on The City Dionysia: Narrating Wasteland in Urban Life – a project to explore how twenty-first theatre can promote creative enquiry into urban problems, drawing upon political practices of urban activism as forms of theatricality to display, dramatize and address a theme.
In this session, we will do some basic playwriting exercises to identify and develop themes, conflicts, images and forms, which may also be useful for your academic and professional writing.