FronteraFest is a five-week long performance festival that ScriptWorks co-produces with Hyde Park Theatre annually. We commission four pieces for the Short Fringe, which appear weekly on Weds. nights. Every year, several of our members are involved in FronteraFest. Here …
FLING SALON
November 2o, 2011 @ 5:30pm
State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave.
The November Salon will be the culmination of our Weekend Fling where members write 10-minute plays using three arbitrary ingredients over 48 hours. We’ll be reading these freshly-inked mini-masterpieces in a Salon that is open to the public.
FRONTERAFEST 101
A primer in self-producing for the fringe, a workshop taught by Christina J. Moore
Wednesday, September 14, 7:00 pm
On Sunday, August 28th from 5:30-7:30pm, ScriptWorks members and their families, as well as area playwrights, actors, directors, designers, technicians, and those interested in finding out more about ScriptWorks are invited to the 14th Annual Meet & Greet:
the Vortex
2307 Manor Rd. (map)
Austin, TX 78722
Free, open to all
This is ScriptWorks’ annual party to kick-off the new year, welcome new members, swap summer triumphs and tribulations, and get informed on how ScriptWorks can help you in the coming year. ScriptWorks will provide libations and attendees are invited to bring their favorite finger food to the potluck. This party has no narrative through-line and no inciting incident, so drop by anytime and rub elbows and egos with the local bards.
We’re looking for a Dallas theatre to host our Dallas Meet N Greet — all suggestions welcome! Contact christi-at-scriptworks.org.
MAKING IT [FUN] AND GOING TO MARKET (Write. Laugh. Rewrite. Move it.)
With Paul Bonin-Rodriguez
Tuesdays, May 24 & 31, June 7 & 14, 7-9:30 pm
$100 ScriptWorks/ $125 General
Drop-in $30 ScriptWorks/ $35 General
Email info@scriptworks.org for reservation and location
Making it [fun] and going to market (Write. Laugh. Rewrite. Move it.)
This workshop begins with the proposal that new plays need time, space, and the support (and challenge) of comrades to get better. The playwright needs to witness the work. Over a period of four weeks, we will work as a community to create bad works that get better. And then we’ll plan on where they might go to build an audience to get even better. Artists may come for the whole, or for parts, although the writing used in class as examples will come from the first two weeks of work.
THE WORST PLAY I NEVER WROTE with Paul Bonin-Rodriguez
part of Nouveau 47′s Nouveau Frontiers New Works Festival
Saturday, May 21st from 2-4pm
Nouveau 47 at the Magnolia Lounge in Fair Park (map)
Admission is $10 at the door! Bring paper and pen.
This workshop comes to creative development from the least likely direction – that of prospective failure – for the purposes of freeing up our creative voices and illustrating just how capable we already are at rescuing bad writing, especially after a first reading, during which everyone has fidgeted awkardly. Working separately, but caucusing together, we’ll find ways to rescue bad plots, stilted dialogue, corny jokes, and overly long descriptions (as in the first sentence). Two dimensional characters will expand; melodramas will find their hidden Brecht; unnecessary adverbs will get pruned out; and we’ll all be the wiser. Really. Finally, because the workshop leader bragged about it in his bio, we’ll discuss where we might take our new plays for continued chrysalis-like development.
ScriptWorks presents a Dramatis Personae Workshop with Octavio Solis
Tuesday, May 3rd 7 – 9:30pm
Dougherty Arts Center
1110 Barton Springs Rd. (map)
$20 ScriptWorks members/$25 general
Reserve your seat by emailing info-at-scriptworks.org
This class with award-winning playwright Octavio Solis will involve relaxation and visualization exercises as part of the writing process. Participants will do their writing in the class and then read what they wrote aloud.
ScriptWorks presents OUT OF INK: Forgetting Finnegan, the 13th annual showcase of 10 minute plays
April 7-9 and April 14-16 at 8 PM
Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd.
$12 general admission, $10 students/seniors/ScriptWorks
April 7th is a Pay-What-You-Wish preview
RESERVATIONS/INFORMATION:
512-454-9727/reserve@scriptworks.org
We all know time flies when you’re having fun. It flies especially quickly when that fun is writing a ten-minute play in 48 hours. That is the task ScriptWorks members were charged with during the Weekend Fling writing retreat. And if that isn’t challenge enough, they had to also incorporate three random ingredients into their mini opuses.
FLING SALON
November 21 @ 6:00pm
State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave.
The November Salon will be the culmination of our Weekend Fling writing retreat where members write 10-minute plays using three arbitrary ingredients over 48 hours. We’ll be reading these freshly-inked mini-masterpieces in a Salon that is open to the public.
THE D/FW PORTION OF THIS WORKSHOP IS CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS. WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.
HOLD ON TO YOUR SHORTS!
led by Amparo Garcia-Crow
Austin – Saturday, November 13th @2:00, State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave
DFW – Monday, November 15th @ 7:00, Irving Arts Center, 3333 N. MacArthur Blvd.
$20 ASW members/ $35 General
RSVP: christi@scriptworks.org
Big or small, short or long, the art of telling a story has its 1, 2, 3s. Come brush up on how you successfully turn big stories into small packages!
