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Christine Evans' Class: Accidents and Found Objects
ACCIDENTS AND FOUND OBJECTS: The Magnetism of Attention
Writing like a poet, living like a playwright, responding to your world.
This intensive 4-day workshop offers a deeply satisfying way for writers to develop a brand new play by focusing the lens of close attention to the seemingly ordinary behaviors, experiences, objects and chance encounters that structure everyday life. Christine Evans, an award-winning playwright (Slow Falling Bird, Trojan Barbie), and professor of playwriting at Brown University, will offer her students a fresh perspective on what writing "in dialogue with our times" (a concept coined by Diana Milosovic of Dah Teatar) might entail; and how to harness the opportunity of chance, and the poetry of ordinary things.
Based on the principle that our trained attention acts as a magnet to create meaningful patterns, we'll work first from external prompts towards more internal "found objects"memories, dreams, emotions, scenarios. Geared to both experienced and new writers, the workshops will involve intensive in-class writing along with techniques for structuring raw material into dramatic form, and lateral methods of overcoming predictability and road-blocks.
Writers can expect to finish with at least the first act of a full-length play and plenty of prompts to help continue through to completion. Expect to write a lot, to try new things, and to share work aloud with your fellow writers.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Originally from Australia, Christine Evans' work has been produced and awarded in the U.S., Australia and the U.K. Productions include multi-award winning Trojan Barbie (American Repertory Theatre, 2009; Playbox Theatre, U.K. 2010); Weightless, Mothergun and All Souls' Day (Perishable Theatre); Slow Falling Bird (Crowded Fire, San Francisco; Metro Arts, Brisbane), Fishbowl (Red Fern, "30+ NYC" and Boston Theater Marathon) and My Vicious Angel (Belvoir St. Theatre; Adelaide International Festival, Australia). Honors include a Fulbright Award, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) Playwriting Fellowship, two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, a Rockefeller Center Bellagio Residency Award, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the 2007 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, and the "Plays for the 21st Century Award". She holds an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Brown and teaches playwriting at Harvard. Her plays are published by Theatre Forum (Issue #35), Smith & Kraus and Samuel French.
http://www.christine-evans-playwright.com
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LocationPlaywrights Foundation
1616 16th Street, Ste 350
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
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