short and sweet

How to write a ten minute play the short and sweet way
A weekend workshop with Alex Broun

Alex Broun is the Artistic Director of Short + Sweet Theatre and one of the world’s leading ten minute playwrights.
The aims of the Short + Sweet Ten Minute Playwriting workshop are to inspire and inform.

In summary, the concept is to inspire participants to write a ten-minute play, by acknowledging and embracing their own inherent stories and natural creativity, and then give them the basic techniques and tools to write the play.

The workshop explores the following areas:

-  What is a ten minute play ?
-  What to write your play about ?
-  The four stages of writing a play
-  Possible styles for your play
-  Story Structure: Six stages of Story
- Story Structure: Beginning Middle and End.

Writers will be energised to write their own ten minute play which can then be performed within the local community or entered to the numerous ten minute play festivals, such as Short + Sweet, springing up around Australia and the world.
By the end of the workshop, all participants will have generated a number of ideas for ten minute plays, whilst acquiring the tools necessary to complete the work. Drafts of participants’ plays will be performed by actors on the Sunday afternoon. Finally, as an added bonus, at least one of the plays developed during the workshop will be staged as part of Short and Sweet Sydney, 2011.
The Short & Sweet workshop runs from the evening of Friday 17th until Sunday 19th September at the Frog Hollow Conference Room, 56 McMinn Street.

Dates:
Friday September 17th (6pm-9pm)
Saturday September 18th (10am – 5pm)
Sunday September 19th (10am – 6pm)

Cost: $220 waged non-member; $160 waged member; $140 concession member.

Shut up nobody wants to hear your poems!

NT Literary Awards Workshops with Keri Glastonbury

Keri Glastonbury is coming to the NT in September to present the NT Literary Award workshops. She will work with local poets to help develop their work in readiness for the Awards.

Keri Glastonbury is a poet and lecturer in Creative Writing at The University of Newcastle. She is the poetry editor of Overland and her third poetry book ‘Grit Salute’ will be published in 2010. In 2009 she had an Asialink residency in India, and in 2002 was a resident at the Australia Council’s Rome studio.

Workshops will be held in Alice Springs, Thursday September 23, 6-9 pm, (venue tba); Tennant Creek, Friday September 24, 5-7pm, (venue tba) and Darwin, Sunday September 26, 10am-1pm at the NT Library in Parliament House.

The final Year of Edit workshop, covering layout, typography and proof-reading, will be held in Darwin on September 11. Click here for more details.