DREAMING A PLAY: Fast First Draft with Caridad Svich
ONLINE for five weeks starting the week of May 28, 2012
$125 ScriptWorks members/ $175 General
INFO/RESERVATIONS:
info@scriptworks.org; 512-454-9727
Nationally recognized playwright Caridad Svich, of Salvage Vanguard Theatre’s Fugitive Pieces, …
MAGICAL OBJECTS with Sherry Kramer
Tuesday, May 8th 7-9pm
Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd Street
$15 ScriptWorks Members/ $25 General
There is a great difference between a prop and an object on stage that is built or filled with …
FOUND STORYTELLING WORKSHOP
telling global stories on a shoestring budget with Micah Magee
Wednesday, March 7th, 7-10pm
The State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave.
COST: $20 ScriptWorks members/ $30 General
INFO/RESERVATIONS: info@scriptworks.org; 512-454-9727
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
In this three-hour workshop, participants explore …
FRONTERAFEST 101
A primer in self-producing for the fringe, a workshop taught by Christina J. Moore
Wednesday, September 14, 7:00 pm
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.
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!
FRONTERAFEST 101
A primer in self-producing for the fringe, a workshop taught by Christina J. Moore
WHEN:
Wednesday, September 15, 7:00 pm
WHERE:
Hyde Park Theatre
511 W. 43rd St.
COST:
$5 ASW members; $10 general
INFO/RESERVATIONS:
christi-at-scriptworks.org
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
This workshop, led by ScriptWorks Executive Director and FronteraFest Producer Christina J. Moore, will guide participants through the process of preparing a piece for FronteraFest. From resources for finding actors, directors, and rehearsal space to the ins and outs of the technical rehearsal, we’ll cover it all.
Writing the Impossible
Saturday, June 26 2-4pm
Dougherty Art Center
1110 Barton Springs Road
Cost: $20 for ASW/ $35 for non-members
Playwright Jose Rivera encourages us to include at least one impossible thing in each of our plays. In the play that you are writing or even just thinking about, what is your one impossible thing? What *can* it be? We’ll study Rivera’s “36 Assumptions About Playwriting,” and specifically the idea of impossibility. The workshop will also include writing exercises to make room for impossibility in character, dialogue, scene direction and events.
