What's forthcoming?
Are you over 50? Do you want to write a play and see it performed?
Have you ever wanted to write a play and see it performed in a theatre by a professional company? Well, here’s your chance!
Every autumn Theatre West produces a ten week season of new writing at the Alma Tavern pub theatre in Bristol. This year’s theme is:
Writing in the Margins
and Theatre West is particularly keen to capture the voices of people not traditionally heard in the theatre, including those of older people.
Boil and Bubble Theatre Company, in collaboration with Theatre West, is running four workshops to help and encourage older people to write fifteen minute plays on the theme of marginalisation. If you live in the South West and have never had a play professionally produced, come to one or more of Boil and Bubble’s workshops and have a go at writing your fifteen minute play.
Bristol Folk House |
St Werburgh’s Community Centre |
Writers are invited to come to all or any of these workshops, with the aim of writing a play no more than 15 minutes long, written for up to 3 actors in a simple setting. The writers of the 8 chosen scripts will each receive £100, and their plays will be produced as part of Theatre West’s autumn season which begins on 16th September 2008.
The charge for each workshop is £2.50.
To book, or for further information, please contact Pameli Benham on 0117 946 7295 or 0777 389 1202 or info@boil-and-bubble.co.uk
For more information about Theatre West see www.theatre-west.co.uk
Marginalise: to treat someone or something as if they are not important.
Most of us have been made to feel unimportant and belittled at some point in our lives. Or perhaps you have seen the effect that being marginalised has on others. What happens to hopes and dreams, to ambition and opportunity? And can one person benefit from another’s misfortune?