Festival

London Playwrights Festival: Digital Line-up

To celebrate the London Playwrights Festival 2021 which takes place at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre from December 6th-11th, we’re bringing you a selection of digital offerings to make sure the festival is accessible to everyone! We hope you’ll take part in these events and join us in celebrating all things new writing!  You can …

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London Playwrights Festival – FREE Zoom Workshop: LGBTQ+ Theatre

To celebrate the London Playwrights Festival 2021, we’re bringing you a series of online workshops! Session are FREE but if you’d like to support the festival, there is an option to ‘pay what you can’ for your ticket! LGBTQ+ Theatre  Want to check terminology, approaches and know where to submit your work? or are you …

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London Playwrights Festival: FESTIVAL ON DEMAND – watch the performances at home!

As thrilled as we are to be hosting a live festival in an actual theatre, we definitely don’t want to exclude those of you who can’t make it in person! We are so grateful for the support we have received throughout this difficult couple of years from our members, subscribers, and readers from across the …

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London Playwrights Festival – FREE Zoom Workshop: Making Work Using Performance and Improvisation Techniques

To celebrate the London Playwrights Festival 2021, we’re bringing you a series of online workshops! Session are FREE but if you’d like to support the festival, there is an option to ‘pay what you can’ for your ticket! Making Work Using Performance and Improvisation Techniques Sometimes a piece of writing demands a different approach to …

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London Playwrights Festival – FREE Zoom Workshop: Monologue Writing

To celebrate the London Playwrights Festival 2021, we’re bringing you a series of online workshops! Session are FREE but if you’d like to support the festival, there is an option to ‘pay what you can’ for your ticket! Monologue Writing Join Sam Essame on this two-hour session on theatre in its simplest form: one person …

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London Playwrights Festival – FREE Zoom Workshop: Creating Historic Characters

To celebrate the London Playwrights Festival 2021, we’re bringing you a series of online workshops! Session are FREE but if you’d like to support the festival, there is an option to ‘pay what you can’ for your ticket! Creating Historic Characters: Ever wanted to write about a historic period and not known where to start …

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London Playwrights Festival: Ayse Evans on writing Watching a Whale Fall

  When the all-female pirate crew aboard The Day of Reckoning is attacked by the British Navy, reality crumbles, and nothing is as it seems. The pirates are haunted by albatrosses, dead men and grieving whales. But how will they survive without a rudder? Why is the navy following them? And what happens when a whale falls? …

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London Playwrights Festival 2021: Emma Dawson on writing Mum

Mum is the centre of Edie’s universe. They’ve stuck together through thick and thin, as other family members abandoned them one by one. But after a terrible accident, Edie has to learn to function as an independent adult in a world that she severely dislikes. Mum will be featured in the London Playwrights Festival 2021 …

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London Playwrights Festival 2021: Sally Reichardt on writing Lee

As the war draws to an end, Lee Miller, World War II reporter, isn’t ready to return home and surrender her career and the unlikely freedoms she has experienced as a woman on the frontline. Lee celebrates the amazing career of Lee Miller and explores the tensions between the liberty of life on the road …

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