Adapting a Book (A Tag Team Challenge)

Adapting books with Sharon Colpman

Course details

William Booth is a local author writing about growing up in Liverpool as a working class lad with an entrepreneurial spirit. It is essentially a love story to his wife and Liverpool itself. 

Participants will be given a section of the book to adapt for stage  and will be guided via workshops and zoom meetings to understand how a creative writer’s room works and to meet deadlines and work as a team and individually. 

Editing written work and working with a producer and a director and dramaturg is central to this Tag Team Challenge.

Writers have been selected but we will be looking for more people with other skills, later in the project. 

The course is designed to run over 5 months with group meetings to suit the participants at Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street and via zoom for mentoring purposes

Dates between: 5/2/25 and 30/6/25 

We'd love to hear from you

email: info@makeitwrite.org
The Studio Below,
39 Rodney Street,
Liverpool.
L1 9EN

Creative play writing- 8 week course

Creative Play writing with Kiefer Wes Williams

Course details

This 8-part course is delivered by Grin Theatre’s Kiefer Wes Williams aims to give writers all they need to write a full play

In this intermediate playwriting course, participants are aiming to produce a 45-minute script through guided sessions and workshops related to writing for the stage. Participants MUST have some playwriting experience as this is NOT a beginners course. 

Price £48 per person. (This can be paid in three instalments)

What you will learn

The eight sessions will cover the following elements:

Giving in to Your Muse : the writer and the imagination – how the writer can harness individual imagination through writing techniques and exercises. Also to look how inspiration plays an important role in the writing process.

Setting Goals and maintaining discipline :  How to target the writers time and delegate writing tasks in a sensible and stress-free manner. Setting realistic goals and balancing writing time and lifestyle.

Characterisation and Dialogue :   how to refine characterisation and dialogue through your writing. Understanding the importance of character development and extending how dialogue works to the writers advantage

Mapping the Journey :   Understanding the ideal plotting tools available to the writer. Realising the journey to be taken. Making use of logging techniques. Being one step ahead of the process.

Creating The Script  :    How to pull everything together in a cohesive whole. Learning to edit and facing the final draft. How to access where you are at this moment

Delivery of Script   :  To the tutor and to be given a basic assessment by both MiW and Grin Theatre. For an additional fee we can dramaturg or give a detailed assessment. This can be discussed at the end of the course.

 

The course is designed in such a way that writers are able to communicate, develop and utilise their skills in a workshop setting to eventually produce and present scripts for submissions to either MiW and/or Grin Theatre Company

The course is designed to run over the course of 8 Saturdays 10.30-12.30 at Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street

Dates between: 8/3/25 and 26/4/25 

We'd love to hear from you

email: info@makeitwrite.org
The Studio Below,
39 Rodney Street,
Liverpool.
L1 9EN

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Self-Tape 101

Do you struggle with the dreaded self-tape, wonder what you did wrong in auditions where you didn’t get the part or just want to get familiar with a film environment? This three hour workshop run by Keith Hyland with Blake John Emery will give you all the tools to successful self-taping and give you top tips about auditions and agents.
Content as follows:
. Learn how to make an industry standard self tape while experiencing film set demands in the studio.
• Participants to get their script 3 days before, similar to in industry.
• Instruction on how to make the camera work for you, how to exploit it with eyeline and movement etc
• Participants make their own self tape from the script provided and ident to take away.
• Learn ways to do well in auditions and interviews
• Perform the script provided live and in self tape – feel the pressure of being watched and judged.
Booking coming soon
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