Story and Structure with Louis Emmitt-Stern
Welcome to SCRUM’s summer writing workshop series! You can explore the full programme here: https://www.scrumtheatre.co.uk/current-workshops
SCRUM offers tiered pricing for our workshops - please read the pricing information below to choose the right tier for you.
After the workshop with Louis Emmitt-Stern we invite you to join us for Snacks ‘n’ Chats! We're holding tea for all workshop attendees from 1-2pm - a chance to get to know your fellow creatives, skill swap and, most importantly, eat biscuits.
Crafting compelling plays with Louis Emmitt-Stern
This 3-hour workshop explores the craft of writing compelling plays, focusing on how strong storytelling and clear structure can bring your writing to life.
Award-winning playwright Louis Emmitt-Stern will guide you in shaping ideas into engaging narratives and building dramatic tension through effective plotting. Through practical exercises and discussion, you will demystify dramatic structure and gain tools to create and elevate your own work.
While focused on playwriting, this workshop is open to writers of any medium, as well as actors, directors, devisers and theatre-makers wishing to deepen their understanding of story and structure.
Content warning: this workshop will discuss Louis’ play Slippery, which contains themes of sexualised drug use, addition, and grief.
Louis Emmitt-Stern is an award-winning writer for stage and screen. His debut play I Fucked You in My Spaceship received a critically acclaimed, sold-out premiere at VAULT Festival, winning the Origins Award for Outstanding New Work. Louis was called “a rising-star playwright” by Time Out. It subsequently transferred to Soho Theatre, London, and has since been produced in New York and South Africa. His play Slippery won Soho Theatre’s Tony Craze Award, and received its world premiere at Omnibus Theatre, London, starring John McCrea and Perry Williams. Louis’ other work includes Mansfield Park (adapted from the novel by Austen; Jane Austen’s House) Snakes and Ladders (Southwark Playhouse) and Is This Us Fading Out (Watford Palace Theatre). His plays are published by Nick Hern Books.
WHICH TICKET TIER SHOULD I CHOOSE?
Offering affordable training is at the heart of SCRUM’s charitable objectives, which is why we have different ticket price tiers. We encourage you to pay what you can based on the below descriptors:
£12 - Subsidised ticket price - You have limited expendable income** and need to opt for the lowest cost option. If this cost is still a barrier, please contact SCRUM on [javascript protected email address]
£15 - Subsidised ticket price - You have some expendable income and can meet basic needs, even if there may be occasional financial stress.
£20 - Full ticket price - You have a comfortable amount of expendable income, do not face financial barriers and are able to cover the full cost of the event ticket.
*BASIC NEEDS include food, housing, clothing and transportation.
**EXPENDABLE INCOME might mean you are able to buy coffee or tea at a shop, go to the cinema or a concert, buy new clothes, books and similar items each month, etc.
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