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THE SATURDAY PLAYWRIGHT’S COURSE
With Timothy Daly
In 2010, the NSW Writers’ Centre will be the venue for a year-long, 30-session intensive course and play workshop that takes you from start to finish, conducted by one of Australia’s most experienced teachers of writing, multi-award winning playwright Timothy Daly.
The Saturday Playwrights’ Course is suitable both for beginners and more experienced writers wishing to use the weekly deadlines as a structure by which to finish a full-length play.
How the Course Works:
This course has been designed to be the most comprehensive and content-rich in the country. It combines an in-depth analytical approach to writing with a hands-on, intuitive, practical method of working. During the year long course, you will write a full-length play, guided every step of the way.
Each week you will receive extensive notes, along with creative writing exercises which Timothy Daly has devised over his many years of teaching. The first half of each session is devoted to the learning of new writing concepts, and the second half will involve reading, workshopping and analysis of your developing plays and creative exercises. The emphasis is on learning the techniques of theatre writing by seeing the results of your work acted out in front of you every week.
The course begins on Saturday, February 6, 2009, and runs for a total of 30 weeks (three phases of ten sessions). Each Saturday session goes from 1pm-4pm, with a short break in the middle. You can join for a phase or two only, or commit to the entire course.
Food: Tea and coffee making facilities will be provided. Course participants are advised to bring their own lunch.
PHASE ONE: SKILLS ACQUISTION (10DALY2)
10 x Saturday afternoons: 6, 13, 20 & 27 February; 6, 20 & 27 March; 3, 10 & 17 April, 1pm – 4pm
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This first ten week phase covers the fundamentals of writing for theatre and performance. Click here for a week by week breakdown.
PHASE TWO: SKILLS UTILISATION (10DALY4)
10 x Saturday afternoons: 24 April, 1 & 8 May; 17, 24 & 31 July; 7, 14, 21 & 28 August, 1pm – 4pm
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In this second ten week phase you will study advanced concepts of dramatic structure, and gain the skills to complete a larger dramatic work. Click here for a week by week breakdown.
PHASE THREE: MAJOR WORK FOCUS (10DALY9)
10 x Saturday afternoons: 4, 11, 18 & 25 September; 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 October; 13 November, 1pm – 4pm
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Full Price |
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Conc Member (40% disc) |
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$850 |
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$500 |
In this final ten week phase, you will gain a knowledge of the Australian theatre marketplace, to assist you with the creative development and professional marketing of your theatre writing. For a week by week breakdown, click here.
TIMOTHY DALY is a multi-award winning writer. Commencing with The Don’s Last Innings (Sydney Theatre Company, 1987), he has achieved a string of successful productions. Kafka Dances is his best-known piece, being the play that first brought Cate Blanchett to national attention. She performed in two highly successful seasons at the Griffin Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company.
Kafka Dances has won over a dozen national and intentional awards, and is the most internationally-performed Australian play of the last three decades. Its most recent production was in Paris in Feb-March, 2008, where it enjoyed a sell-out season. In November 2008, Kafka Dances began a 20-city tour of France.
In 2006, Timothy created a national record with Beach: A Theatrical Fantasia. Commissioned by NIDA, Beach - with over 140 roles - is the largest-scale Australian play ever to be produced, and created NIDA’s largest-ever box office. Derrida in Love, a comedy, was performed in April-May 2007 at Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre in a hugely successful sold-out season. A French translation and Paris season (2010) of Derrida In Love is in preparation.
In May 2008, his most recent play, The Man in the Attic, was awarded Australia’s most prestigious award for a new play, the Patrick White Playwrights’ Award. Currently, translations of the play into German, French, Norwegian and Polish are in preparation.
The play goes to the Festival of Avignon in 2009. Its American premiere is in April, 2009. In early 2008, Timothy was awarded a Fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts, Australia’s highest artistic theatrical fellowship.
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