RE:GROUP WORKSHOP : Writing for Live Performance
A masterclass in writing text for live performance run by an award-winning playwright.
Give your stage ideas expression via words and action in this masterclass of dramatic writing for performance. The workshop is led by Mark Rogers, a re:group performance collective ensemble member and multi award-winning playwright and theatre maker. Have a burning idea you want to kick-start? A half-done play you’re stuck on? Or a wide-eyed interest in theatrical writing? Then sign up quick – limited to 10 places only.
Develop the tools that will give your writing a sense of urgency and momentum and discover how to give your audiences a unique experience. Participants will leave equipped with a playwriting toolkit and inspired to take their writing to the next level.
DURATION
4 hrs
ACCESSIBILITY
Civic Theatre is wheelchair accessible and has wheelchair accessible amenities.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mark is a multi-award winning playwright and theatre maker living on Wodi Wodi land. He won the 2019 Patrick White Playwright Award and 2019 Griffin Award for New Australian Writing for his play Superheroes. He holds a PhD from the University of Wollongong, where he lectures in theatre and performance.
His work as a playwright includes: Naked & Screaming (La Boite Theatre), Superheroes (Griffin Theatre Company), The Pecking Order (Shopfront Arts Co-Op, Commission) Tom William Mitchell (Merrigong-X), Plastic (Old 505 Theatre), We’ll Become Good People, You’ll See (Crack Theatre Festival), Target Audience (Novelty UK), The Buck (Rock Surfers, Bondi Feast), Soothsayers (Brisbane Festival:Under The Radar), Blood Pressure (Rock Surfers, Old Fitzroy Theatre) and Gobbledygook (PACT, AC Arts Adelaide). His plays Blood Pressure and Naked & Screaming are published by PlayLab and Superheroes is published by Currency Press. He is a proud member of the NTEU.