Day Courses
Feel the burn with our
day-long intensive courses at various levels.
Scroll down to see the selection of courses
on offer.
Sunday 9th September
Writing for
Theatre with Fraser Grace
In association with Menagerie Theatre Company
The Improvising Mind: The Space Between my Ears
This is an intensive, day-long workshop exploring the centrality
of improvisational thinking to the dramatist’s art. As well as
being useful in its own right for writers interested in developing
a play, this day course will also serve as the start of a Short
Course exploring vital aspects of the dramatist’s art.
Promising work from those taking the course as a whole, or the
Manuscript Consultation sessions, will be considered for further
development and potential showcasing at the Hotbed Festival by
Menagerie.
Fraser Grace
Fraser has worked as a playwright for almost twenty years,
following stints as actor and performance poet. His first play for
theatre was Perpetua (joint winner of the 1996 Verity Bargate
Award). More recently he has written Gifts of War and Frobisher’s
Gold for Menagerie Theatre. His play Breakfast with Mugabe was
produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, eventually
transferring to the West End, and was named joint winner of the
John Whiting Award for best new play of 2006. Plays for radio
include Bubble (with Andrea Porter 2004), and Breakfast with
Mugabe, 2006, winner of the 2007 Silver Sony Award. He has
previously taught playwriting at the University of Birmingham, and
currently directs a similar course at Anglia Ruskin University,
Cambridge.
Fraser is currently writing an opera; Don’t Breathe A Word, with
the composer Andrew Lovett, and a new play for the National
Theatre. His plays are published by Oberon books.
Menagerie
The East of England’s leading producer of new drama writing and
producers of the Hotbed Festival. They run a playwright development
programme as well as producing work for regional and national
touring.
Price:
The King of Hearts
9:30pm – 5:30/6:00pm, with breaks for coffee & lunch
£60(£45 concession)
DEAL: Take this day course along with the Short
Course for £110.
BOOKING
Saturday 15th September
Introduction
to Writing for Television with Jim
Hill
Nut, Bolts & FAQ’s
Drama continues to be a sought after commodity in an ever
evolving multi channel industry. How do you best direct your
efforts and what avenues are open to new writers? This one-day
introduction to scriptwriting will present a general overview of
writing for television drama. Using clips and group exercises it
will look at the various stepping stones to writing your script.
The day will incorporate a whistle-stop guide to synopses, outlines
and treatments and offer advice on how to tackle dialogue.
Jim Hill
A graduate of The National Film and Television School., he is a
writer and director of popular television drama and is perhaps best
known as the co-creator of the successful series BOON, which
starred Michael Elphick. He has worked on many prime time
television series as both a director & writer including
Casualty: Pie in The Sky: Minder: Lovejoy and The Bill as well as
directing six part series for both BBC Scotland and ITV. He has
worked abroad for FremantleMedia (formerly Grundy Worlwide
Drama) and has taught scriptwriting at the Arvon Centre
(Devon), Ty Newydd (Wales) as well as continuing to run regular
courses at the City Lit and mentoring scriptwriting students at
Birkbeck University. Jim is currently the 1st year tutor MA
Scriptwriting at DeMontfort University (Leicester) and is also
engaged by Fire Mountain Films, an emerging independent drama
company, to develop a drama slate.
The King of Hearts
9:30pm – 5:30/6:00pm, with breaks for coffee & lunch
£60(£45 concession)
BOOKING
Sunday 7th October
Poetry
1 with Helen Ivory
Talking to Pictures
Spend the day exploring the connection between visual art and
poetry in this practical workshop. We will look at some poets who
engage in this dialogue, and discover ways to generate our own
conversations.
Helen Ivory
In1999, she won an Eric Gregory Award and an Arts Council
Writer’s Award in 2005. Her second Bloodaxe collection The
Dog in the Sky was published last year. She is now Academic
Director and teacher of Creative Writing for Continuing Education
at the University of East Anglia, and also teaches at Norwich
School of Art and Design. She is a regular reviewer for Seam
magazine and an editor for The Poetry Archive.
The King of Hearts
9:30pm – 5:30/6:00pm, with breaks for coffee & lunch
£60(£40 concession)
BOOKING
Saturday 10th November
Poetry
2 with Esther Morgan
Enough Said
This class will draw on the power of silence in poetry, the
eloquence of the white space between stanzas and the before and
after of a poem. Through examples, discussion and practical
exercises, participants will explore the techniques of implication
and suggestion.
Esther Morgan
Worked as a volunteer with the Wordsworth Trust in 1992, then
full-time for Cheltenham Arts Festivals. She studied for an MA in
Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where she also
edited four volumes of the contemporary poetry anthology, Reactions
(2000-2003). She also taught creative writing at the same
university and is a tutor for the Arvon Foundation. She won an Eric
Gregory Award for her poetry in 1998. Her first collection, Beyond
Calling Distance, was published in 2001, and won the 2001 Jerwood
Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the Mail
on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
Her second collection The Silence Living in Houses was published in
2005.
She currently works as Editorial Assistant and Manager of Historic
Recordings for The Poetry Archive project (www.poetryarchive.org), and as a
Communications Officer for Norfolk Museums & Archaeology
Service
The King of Hearts
9:30pm – 5:30/6:00pm, with breaks for coffee & lunch
£60(£40 concession)
BOOKING
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