Write A Play! Intensives and Master Classes
Tuesday, February 21 - Friday, February 24, 2006
Young
Playwrights Inc. offers a variety of school-break programs for
writers aged 12-18. Meeting at YPI headquarters in
Manhattan, students work with our Teaching Artists and their peers as they
discover and expand their playwriting skills, participate in improvisational and
collaborative exercises, and complete new, original works for the stage.
Intensives:
g
Explore the
basic elements of playwriting, including character, dialogue, setting, and
conflict, with a professional playwright.
g Participate in
group improvisation and individual writing exercises, including the writing of
monologues and scenes that express your thoughts, feelings, and creativity.
g
Learn how the
monologues and scenes you write can contribute to the writing of a complete
play.
g
Discover new
ideas for your writing.
g
Experience what
it means to be a writer and an artist.
SERIES 1: INTRODUCTION TO
PLAYWRITING for Middle School Students
Dates: Tuesday 2/21,
Wednesday 2/22, Thursday 2/23 and Friday 2/24
Time: 10:00am - 12:30pm each day
Location: Young Playwrights Inc. Headquarters
431 Fifth Avenue (between 38th and 39th Streets), 6th floor
New York, NY 10016
Fee:
$50 for all four days
SERIES 2:
INTRODUCTION TO PLAYWRITING for High School Students
Dates: Tuesday 2/21,
Wednesday 2/22, Thursday 2/23 and Friday 2/24
Time:
1:00pm - 3:30pm each day
Location: Young Playwrights Inc. Headquarters
431 Fifth Avenue (between 38th and 39th Streets), 6th floor
New York, NY 10016
Fee:
$50 for all four days
SERIES 3: MASTER
CLASSES IN PLAYWRITING for High School Students *
* Permission from Young Playwrights Inc. required to
register for master classes. Please email
[email protected] or call 212-594-5440
Dates: Tuesday 2/21,
Wednesday 2/22, Thursday 2/23 and Friday 2/24
Time: 4:00pm - 6:30pm each day
Location: Young Playwrights Inc. Headquarters
431 Fifth Avenue (between 38th and 39th Streets), 6th floor
New York, NY 10016
Fee:
$15 per master class
OR
$50 for all four master classes
HIP HOP HUBRIS – with
Marcus Gardley
Date:
Tuesday, February 21
Discuss hip hop theater and its relationship to the "spoken word" theater of
ancient Greece. Explore the notion of Hip Hop as the voice of the new generation
and its impact on American drama. Listen to music, write hip hop scenes, and
discuss the beat, the turntable, the microphone, the dj and rap. Consider the
personalities of hip hop: the politics, the bling bling, the controversy, the
personas, the commercialism, and the music. How can hip hop be used to deepen
our plays and bring more young people into the theater? Participate in a rap
session of hip hop poetics.
POLITICAL PLAYWRITING: HUMAN
RIGHTS IN THE WORLD TODAY – with Catherine Filloux
Date:
Wednesday, February 22
What are
the world’s key challenges in your eyes? If you had to sum up a dramatic
situation that must be told for the world to survive what would it be? What is
America’s role in the world and where do you fit in? What is political theater?
Isn’t all theater political? Excerpts from Ms. Filloux’s plays EYES OF THE
HEART, BEAUTY INSIDE, and LEMKIN’S HOUSE will be read aloud and writing
exercises will explore ways for participants to start new short plays.
BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID – with Erin
Courtney
Date:
Thursday, February 23
Great plays begin with
great obsessions. Fear can often be considered a negative obsession, but this
master class will explore how one might use one's own fears to create a play
world. Participate in a variety of writing exercises to explore fears and
anxieties and how these fears can drive a play. Short scenes from Ms. Courtney’s
plays DEMON BABY and QUIVER AND TWITCH will be read aloud to see the ways
dream-like imagery and humor can be used to dramatize anxiety.
ELEMENTS OF FARCE – with Laura Henry
Date:
Friday, February 24
Understanding
the elements of farce – broad physical humor, absurd and improbable events – can
help you unleash your comic potential. In this master class, we will analyze
some of the major elements of farce. Through writing exercises and improvisation
we will explore surprise entrances and exits, play with screen scenes, discover
sure-fire ways to create comic characters and discover new uses for old props.
The class will culminate in the writing of a short comic piece composed of
“ingredients” that won't be revealed until the very last moment.
Click here to download
a copy of the registration form (this form cannot be filled out online).
Registration form and fee must
be postmarked to Young Playwrights Inc. on or before Tuesday, February 14,
2006.
For
more information about the WRITE A PLAY! Intensive Workshop Series or Master
Classes, contact:
Judy Hellman
Education Director
Young Playwrights Inc.
212-594-5440 (phone)
212-684-4902 (fax)
[email protected]
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