1-3pm

In this online workshop with the brilliant Marietta Kirkbride you’ll look at the shape of your play from it’s structure to the audience experience.

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A day of FREE dramaturgy slots for playwrights in Devon and Cornwall needing support with their plays

Four short plays inspired by the poetry of Charles Causley.

@ IntoBodmin

The opening scenes of your play is vital to kickstart the storytelling. What gives a play opening punch? What do we have to consider when building the first ten pages that has real impact for an audience and possible commissioners? How do we make our audience forget the world outside? This session will include examples of great opening scenes, discussion and exploration of character and pace.

Down Stage Write are holding a writer’s social in partnership with MAKETANK.

Come along, meet other playwrights, and talk all things writing over a coffee.

Writers are welcome to bring ten-pages (max.) along, have their work read out, and receive informal feedback from other playwrights and Down Stage Write.

Find one of our team of playwrights stationed in fringe venues during the week. For only £1 you can feel like a big time producer and commission a one page play based on your ideas, whether you want a gritty kitchen sink drama, a moving monologue or a play where Ainsley Harriot marries a dinosaur.

At the end of the week come and see our gang of actors (including some of your favourites from other fringe shows) perform as many of the plays as possible in one hour, script in hand. A new writing night like no other, it’s the perfect way to finish the fringe!

Find out just how many plays we can write and stage in a week!?

All profits from play commissions go to charity.

Find one of our team of playwrights stationed in fringe venues during the week. For only £1 you can feel like a big time producer and commission a one page play based on your ideas, whether you want a gritty kitchen sink drama, a moving monologue or a play where Ainsley Harriot marries a dinosaur.

At the end of the week come and see our gang of actors (including some of your favourites from other fringe shows) perform as many of the plays as possible in one hour, script in hand. A new writing night like no other, it’s the perfect way to finish the fringe!

Find out just how many plays we can write and stage in a week!?

All profits from play commissions go to charity.

Exeter Phoenix

4 short plays in response to the Nancy Astor Centenary year

Featuring a digital installation by Ruth Mitchell

Theatre Royal Plymouth - The Lab

4 short plays in response to Nancy Astor’s centenary year

Featuring a digital installation by Ruth Mitchell

Theatre Royal Plymouth - The Lab

A day of FREE dramaturgy slots for Devon and Cornwall Playwrights needing support with their plays

Exeter Phoenix

4 new short plays selected from an open call-out

Find one of our team of playwrights stationed at Rumpus Cosy. For only £1 you can feel like a big time producer and commission a one page play based on your ideas, whether you want a gritty kitchen sink drama, a moving monologue or a play where Ainsley Harriot marries a dinosaur.

At the end of the day, come and see our gang of actors (including some of your favourites from other fringe shows) perform as many of the plays as possible in one hour, script in hand. A new writing night like no other, it’s the perfect way to finish the fringe!

Find out just how many plays we can write and stage in a day!?

All profits from play commissions go to charity.

A collection of script in hand performances directed by local female directors, with music and poetry from members of Plymouth based group Feminist Fusion.

Theatre Uncut is an organisation that annually commissions leading playwrights to create short plays that tackle political and social issues. They then release these plays, rights free, to be performed by anyone anywhere. This year’s collection of plays are the Power Plays, exploring the theme of power from the female perspective.