Writing for the Stage: 8 week course with Sarah Connors

This 8 week course looks at the creativity and craft of writing for the stage. We explore theme, story, characters, dialogue, setting and staging through workshops, group discussions and feedback, culminating in a creative sharing event at The Minack Theatre.

4 Feb - Week 1: Finding the Heart and Dramatic Language of your Story - Story v Theme
11 Feb - Week 2: Structure - How Plays Work
18 Feb - Week 3: Creating Compelling Characters - Flaws and Arcs
25 Feb - Week 4: Dialogue and the Dreaded Exposition
4 March - Week 5: Visiting Theatrical Specialist - Simon Harvey (O'Region)
11 March - Week 6: A Playwright’s Gift - Exits and Entrances - Beats and Silences
18 March - Week 7: Pulling Things Together - Writing Time and Peer / Tutor feedback
Saturday 28 March: Script-in-Hand showcase at the Minack Theatre

Sarah Connors is a playwright based in Cornwall and an associate write for The Writers'Block.  She attended Luton University and spent twenty years teaching in the primary sector. In 2019, she made the bold decision to step away from her career in education to pursue her long-held ambition of becoming a playwright. Since then, Sarah has been shortlisted for prestigious awards such as the Papatango Playwriting Prize, the Phil Fox Award, the Nick Darke Cornish Award, and the Theatre 503 International Playwriting Award for her play Pushing on Open Doors. The Bush Theatre has sponsored Sarah to participate in the Sphinx 30 Lab, a groundbreaking scheme designed to champion women playwrights. Her debut play, Tre, toured across Cornwall, gaining positive attention, and she was commissioned last year to create work for Hall for Cornwall’s youth theatre.

Thanks to funding from Minack Theatre, tickets are available at a low cost