A workshop with Sami Ibrahim

In the age of screens and streaming, theatre's greatest power remains its liveness. This practical workshop explores the unpredictable and sometimes electric live exchange between performers and audience. We'll explore how to embed liveness in your writing, without relying on the fourth wall. You'll examine how form, structure and staging can maximise the immediacy of live performance. Together we'll discover how to make work that couldn't exist anywhere but on stage.

About Sami Ibrahim

Sami’s play two Palestinians go dogging ran at the Royal Court and was nominated for an Olivier Award. He has been shortlisted for the George Devine Award twice and has been a writer-in-residence at Shakespeare’s Globe, where he co-wrote an adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. He has had plays performed at The Gate and The Yard theatres as well as on Radio 4 and is currently working on commissions for the RSC and the National Theatre. He is developing feature films with Film Four as well as BBC Film and, last year, was named one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow.

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