This is an IN-PERSON event in the UK.
Monday, May 6
White Bear Theater
138 Kennington Park Road
London, Kennington
SE11 4DJ UK
12pm-4pm BST (British Standard Time)
Join visiting playwright and seasoned improv teacher/performer, Jeffrey Sweet, for a free workshop at The White Bear Theatre geared around helping theatre writers generate new material using improvisational techniques! Expect to learn instantly usable techniques for applying theater games to new ideas and the creation of new plays, musicals, and other stories for the stage. The session will also include the opportunity for participants to ask questions or engage in discussion of play/musical development and opportunities in the United States. Actors and directors are also welcome, or anyone interested in learning more about writing for the stage.
Jeffrey Sweet is visiting London for a production of his play, KUNSTLER, at the White Bear Theatre. For more information and tickets, CLICK HERE.
This workshop is offered in collaboration with White Bear, Hint-of-Lime, AND Theater Company, and the Dramatists Guild of America.
Jeffrey Sweet is the author of THE DRAMATIST’S TOOLKIT, a text on playwriting used in many graduate programs (also available in Kindle). He wrote SOMETHING WONDERFUL RIGHT AWAY, an oral history of Second City (Kindle edition available), THE O’NEILL, a history of the O’Neill Theater Center, and WHAT PLAYWRIGHTS TALK ABOUT WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT WRITING (also available in Kindle) featuring craft conversations with such playwrights as David Hare, Bryony Lavery, Chris Durang, Lynn Nottage, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Edward Albee and Lanford Wilson. He is a Council member for the Dramatists Guild of America.
Questions about this event? Email: questions@dramatistsguild.com
Find out more here.
Daye: 6 May