Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:30 BST
Geoffrey Manton Building GMLT4
Rosamond Street West Manchester M15 6EB
FREE
Simon Stephens’ inaugural lecture will not be a lecture. In a way that is befitting to a dramatic writer it will take the form of a dialogue. He will be in conversation with the Dramaturg at the Royal Exchange Theatre Suzanne Bell. Simon has written for theatre for the last twenty five years. Suz and Simon will talk about his work. They will talk about his process and his work in Manchester in particular. This conversation will take place in the heart of the Manchester International Festival. It will address questions of recurring themes in his work, questions of holding both authenticity and curiosity in creativity, the complexities and contradictions within ‘lived experience’ and the nature of the imagination. At a time when theatre is reeling from the economic catastrophe of the Covid 19 pandemic, leading writers, actors, directors, designers and production artists are leaving the theatre in large numbers and there are urgent questions about the precarious future of new writing on our stages, Simon will address the possibility of taking an optimistic view of the future of the art form. He will be making the obvious and vital case that theatre will survive Netflix, evidencing how and why that survival will happen.
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Source: Write A Play