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Teaching in Cambridge, March 2011


Spring Workshops and the MAD Festival
We've just confirmed dates for our Spring Workshop season as well as for our next writers' opportunity, the hugely popular Monologues and Duologues, or MAD, festival. We've booked three exciting playwrights for our spring season, and as always we'll be keeping prices for these workshops as low as possible to enable as many people as possible to attend. Anyone is welcome to attend WRiTEON workshops but paid up members receive a further discount on the price. Tickets for the workshops will go on sale soon - for now, mark your calendars!
The Violent Imagination with Jaki McCarrick
Sunday, 6 March 2011, 11am - 5pm
Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity St, Cambridge
Jaki is a multi award winning playwright, poet and writer of short stories. Her first play, The Mushroom Pickers, won the 2002 best of Old Vic New Voices and the 2005 Scottish Drama Association’s National Playwriting Competition and went on to productions at Southwark Playhouse and the Gene Frankel Theater, New York. In 2010, her play Leopoldville scooped the 2010 Papatango New Writing Award and was selected by David Hare as a finalist for the Yale 2010 International Drama Series. Her short play, The Collectors, can be seen at the Arcola in March. Her play The American Hotel was read as part of WRiTEON's Naked Stage season in 2008. Find out more about Jaki at her blogspot, HERE.
Monologues and Duologues with Fraser Grace
Sunday, 13 March 2011, 11am - 5 pm
ADC Theatre, Park Street Cambridge
Fraser is the author of a number of successful plays for theatre including, King David, Man of Blood; The Lifesavers; Perpetua; Gifts of War; Who Killed Mr Drum? (Co-written with Sylvester Stein); Frobisher's Gold; and most notably, Breakfast with Mugabe, originally produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and winner of the John Whiting Award for best new play of 2006. That production transferred to the West End in May 2006, and the play has continued to draw critical acclaim through more recent productions in both the UK and the US. Fraser directs the Writing Drama course at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and is currently completing a new opera, Don’t Breathe a Word, with the composer Andrew Lovett. See more about Fraser on his website, HERE.
The Form of Plays - Space and Structure with Steve Waters
28 March 2011, 7pm - 10pm
ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge
Steve's many plays include Little Platoons, currently generating great reviews at the Bush Theatre, Amphibians, just finished at the Bridwell Theatre, and The Contingency Plan, which was shortlisted for the John Whiting Award 2009. He has also written for radio, film, and many journals, including The Guardian, New Statesman and the Times Higher Supplement. His book, The Secret Life of Plays , was published late last year. He is currently the convenor of and lecturer on the Mphil(B) in Playwriting Studies course at the University of Birmingham.
Dates for MAD Festival 2011
Sundays and Mondays, July 3, 4, 10, 11 and 17 2011, 7pm - 9.30 pm
ADC Theatre Bar, Park Street Cambridge
Watch this space for further submissions and casting information. We will be accepting plays for one or two actors, up to 20 minutes in length.
New Beginners Improv Course in May
Mondays starting 9 May, 8 - 10 pm
8 weeks plus workshop and show on 26 June
Ross Street Community Centre, Cambridge
Price: £70/£50 concess
As both the advanced and beginners' improv courses this winter were oversubscribed, we're offering a new beginners' course beginning this May. For more info on the beginners improv, click HERE . Or to sign up early write to improv@writeon.org.uk.
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