Deep Dive Directing – The Theatre Directors Tool Bag (Intermediate)

Deep Dive - The Theatre Directors Tool Bag (intermediate)

Course details

Jay McWinen is the Facilitator for this intermediate workshop. Jay is a theatre practitioner, acting lecturer and musical theatre director

Jay shares his experience from working as a director, agent, academic lecturer and community engagement practitioner to inspire development of your current directing skills

Sunday 29th March 13.00 to 15.00 at the Studio Beyond
What to expect:
  • New management skills in the rehearsal room
  • Using ideas from leading professionals to enrich your directing practise
  • Learn new tips and pro tools
  • Increase your creativity as a director

please bring a note book and pen, be on time and wear comfortable clothes

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Deep Dive Directing – What Moves you is Movement

Deep Dive - What Moves you is Movement

Course details

Miriam Mussa is the Facilitator for this practical 3 hour workshop that helps you to understand how blocking and movement are the key tools to storytelling.

Miriam brings extensive experience in directing, touring theatre and leading her community and engagement programmes. Her practice is rooted in clarity, care and making meaningful connection with audiences.
Sunday 22nd Feb at 13.00 to 16.00 at the Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, Liverpool. Only £15
 
What to expect:
  • Looking at how actors are moved and placed to tell a story without words
  • How using movement can help reduce the word count
  • For directors: deepening knowledge of direction through physical storytelling
  • For actors: what a director may expect of you in the physical sense. Make clearer and more intentional physical choices in rehearsal
  • Strengthen narrative clarity, presence and audience connection.
This workshop is suitable for actors, directors, artistic leads and writer/directors
 
Please bring a note book and wear comfortable clothes.
The workshop will take place at the Studio Beyond, 63 Wood Street, Liverpool
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Write it, Shoot it, Show it – a film making weekend workshop

A film making weekend workshop

Do you want the full experience of making a film from writing it to the finished product? The Studio Beyond has three industry professionals to guide you through the process.

Course details

Choose to take part as a writer, crew or actor.

Ted Gray will facilitate the writing section, Blake Emery The filming and Kieth Hyland  the Acting.

Ideal for beginners to the world of film and screen

The finished film will be premiered at Liverpool Fringe and the film will be entered into other festivals.

 

This course will run over the two days of the weekend 23rd – 24th August .  It will be held at The Studio Beyond (63 wood Street Liverpool). Course times will vary depending on your course choice. Please bring your own lunch or some money to buy your lunch in the surrounding shops.

Cost: £20

 

To enter contact: Blake@studiobelow.co.uk

Shakesperience! Understanding the Bard and performing his plays

A workshop exploring the performers relationship with Shakespeares language for beginners and for professionals as part of the working actor's workshops.

Course details

This 6-part course is delivered by Molly Farquhar (beginners) and Flloyd Kennedy (professionals)

For the Professionals:

This immersive course into the world and words of Shakespeare will give you more confidence to audition. Exploring the fool, hero, huntress, mother, sage, trickster and many more.

Using Q scripts and the original Shakespeare Co’s ‘rules of the game.’ we’ll be playful with Shakespeare and see if the Bard is playful with us.

For Beginners:

An introduction into the world of Shakespeare and his text. By week six, performers will leave with a polished monologue that they can perform at audition

 

Price £50 per person. 

What you will learn

The six sessions will cover the following elements:

  • Owning the Text
  • Working with Lambic/Archetypes
  • Understanding the text
  • Working with Cue scripts
Dates:
12pm to 2pm, Sept 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th and Oct 12th and 19th

 

This will lead to a showcase performance at the Studio Beyond 

We'd love to hear from you

email: info@makeitwrite.org
The Studio Beyond,
63 Wood Street,
Liverpool.

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Deep Dive Creative Writing – Workshop 4 (Writing Unpredictably )

Deep Dive - Exploring the unexpected

Course details

Edward Gray writer of Passing Moustache and director of obscurest style plays will be your facilitator. Learning his craft in an era of protest and political theatre Ted’s work could never be called dull or predictable. 

 

Sunday 22nd June 12.00 to 14.00
What to expect:
  • The essence of storytelling
  • What defines a great story
  • How to break the rules
  • How to turn left instead of right
  • How to avoid the pitfalls of predictability
  • Going outside what you know without falling for stereotypes.
 
Please bring a note book and wear comfortable clothes.
The workshop will take place at the Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street Liverpool
 
 
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Deep Dive Creative Writing – Workshop 3 (Dialogue)

Deep Dive - Dialogue, all talk!

Course details

Kiefer Wes Williams, who’s play Orton Fallen Angel is on at Shakespeare North and his work has toured as part of Grin Theatre, is your facilitator for this course. Renown for his fast paced and touching dialogue he will introduce you to real dialogue within the structure of a play.

Sunday 1st June at 10.30 to 12.30
What to expect:
  • The key function of dialogue in a script
  • Writing effective dialogue and what it is.
  • Making people sound different using hierarchy, mood and local colour
  • Developing natural Dialogue
  • Practical exercises to explore what we have learnt
  • Editing your dialogue and avoiding bad habits
Please bring a note book and wear comfortable clothes.
The workshop will take place at the Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street Liverpool

Please note Kiefer is currently unwell so this workshop may be run by another facilitator if he is unable to attend.
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Deep Dive Creative Writing – Workshop 2 (Solo Shows)

Deep Dive - Creating a one person show

Course details

Molly Farquhar is your facilitator who is taking her award winning  one-woman show, Hairy Bastard, to Edinburgh Fringe this year. She will be on hand to guide you in writing your own solo performance whether it is auto-biographical or fiction.

 

 Sunday 18th May 12.00 to 1400

 

What to expect:
  • Finding your Story
  • Setting the Journey of your character
  • What should/shouldn’t I share
  • Adding humour
  • Giving the light and shade a rhythm
  • Avoiding the Pitfalls such as self-indulgence.
  • Cutting and editing your show 
Please bring a note book and wear comfortable clothes.
The workshop will take place at the Studio Below, 39 Rodney Street Liverpool
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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

Producers Weekender (9th and 10th)

Producers Weekender - With Ted Gray and Sharon Colpman

Thinking of self-producing or producing at the Studio Below for the first time. This first step course gives you real world instruction on how run a successful show. Anyone completing this course will get priority when booking at the Studio Below.

Course details

What You Will Learn:

  1. Planning your show
  2. Hiring cast and crew
  3. Liaising with the venue
  4. Finding rehearsal space
  5. Looking for funding
  6. Budget, Invoices, contracts and Insurance
  7. Marketing and getting bums on seats
  8. Troubleshooting
  9. Tech, Get in and Get out
  10. Overseeing the show
  11. Paying everyone

 

 

This course will run over the two days of the weekend 9th and 10th November.  It will be held at The Studio Below (39 Rodney St. Liverpool)

Doors will be open from 10.30am where refreshments will be available, for a prompt start at 11am. The course finishes at 4pm each day. Please bring your own lunch or some money to buy your lunch in the surrounding shops.

The course is subsidised by The National Lottery Community Fund so is only £10 per person. Non-refundable.

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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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