Toolkit Extra- Hannah Nicklin- Narrative design choices and ‘multiple middles’
Whether you have been able to be creative or not, we want to try and find ways to support you to continue to be engaged…
TOOLKIT SERIES 2- WEEK 6- SWAMP MOTEL Co-Founders and Creative Directors Clem Garritty & Ollie Jones
It is important that we bring compassion and understanding to the situation we find ourselves in. This continues to be a tremendously difficult time for…
TOOLKIT SERIES 2- WEEK 5 Amanda Dalton on Adaptation
It is important that we bring compassion and understanding to the situation we find ourselves in. This continues to be a tremendously difficult time for…
TOOLKIT SERIES 2- WEEK 4 Sonia Jalaly on Devising
Writing a play takes huge dedication. It takes time, head-space, leaps of imagination plus vision, bravery, commitment, compassionate enquiry beyond your immediate experience and perhaps…
I want to see plays that make you think, that are of our time, that have something to say – they might be witty and entertaining but I also want more. I want my brain to be really engaged.Michael Oglesby
I think it’s amazing that plays can interrogate difficult issues with the safety net of imagination. I want to see big plays that get me to think what the outcomes could be and how the future might be different in these turbulent times.Faith Yianni
I think the human condition wants to resolve or come up with the answer. Theatre is not about offering answers. I want to see plays that don’t know what the answer is so I have to think about it for days and weeks.Shane Zaza
I want to see a story that demands to be told, is told vividly, with strong characters and perspectives all speaking equally.Kate Vokes
Plays need to both explore formal innovation and create emotional fulfillment – not one or the other but both.Kwame Kwei-Armah
A new play can shine a light on the darkest corners of human experience, it can introduce us to new ways of thinking and tell stories that we need to hear. In a world that seems increasingly confusing, fractured and insular, we need the communal experience of theatre and the clamorous voices of playwrights.Sarah Frankcom
To write a play is a revolutionary act – you are standing naked in front of someone asking them to love every part of you. This is a brave act and why Art is important to the life blood of the country.Kwame Kwei-Armah
The written wordImportant does not mean all doom and gloom, humour too is vital. Don’t be scared to make us laugh but make sure what you write makes you laugh too. Whatever it is, the writer has to feel what they are saying is important.Jenny Sealey