PLAY WRITING WITH TOM HOLLOWAY
Work Hard. Worry Less. Have Fun.
Play: Spending time doing an enjoyable or entertaining activity (Cambridge Dictionary)
Wright: A person who makes or builds things (Cambridge Dictionary)
Inspired by the concept of a playwright being someone who makes or builds through entertaining activities, Play Writing With Tom Holloway is run over four, three-hour sessions designed to remind creatives of both the fun that can be had, and discipline needed to pursue character, story and structure on the stage.
The workshops are made up of constant, focussed, timed writing games, and participants will be shocked how quickly they build entire lives of characters and whole stories.
The sessions also look at the fundamentals needed in playwriting, the tools playwrights can use to express themselves on the page, the importance of finding the right structure for your play, and also, just how mind-blowing and awe-inspiring a play can be.
And although playwriting is the method being explored, it is for all creatives, freeing the mind from over-thinking, breaking through the early, daunting stages of creativity and getting the ideas out of us and recorded for remodelling.
Tom strongly believes that the best creativity comes from safe, welcoming, inclusive environments where everyone is welcome no matter their age, identity, or experience level.
Come one, come all!
WHAT TO EXPECT
Session One:
Loosen up your writing fingers, because you’re going to be using them in this session where we interrogate the fundamentals of theatre and we begin build the lives of both a protagonist and an antagonist.
Session Two:
You thought we wrote a lot in Session One? Just wait for it…
We take a section from the antagonist’s life to be the focus of a new play, and build the pathways to, or from it, developing our play’s structure. We’re writing fast, to prompts, and not letting doubt or hesitation sneak in.
This is done for the antagonist as well, letting us know them just as fully as our main character, and by the end of it all our head’s will be swirling and our fingers will be aching.
Session Three:
A needed break from the intensive writing, we will instead look at three very different but deeply inspiring plays to interrogate how the playwrights built them and the tools they use to share their vision.
Session Four:
Building from all the first three sessions, the final session becomes a writing intensive, stealing from some of the greatest living playwrights and feeding into our own emerging works. We’ll feel the rush of news ideas mixed with the confidence of having new tools to explore them. We’ll end creatively exhausted but hopefully charged and ready for whatever lays next in our creative lives.
CLASS FEE
$395*
*Weekly payment plan of $79 for 5 weeks available.
DATE AND TIME
Saturdays, 6 July - 27th July, 10am-1pm*
*All class times are listed in Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
HOW TO ATTEND
This class will be hosted on Zoom.
Further instructions will be sent closer to the course date.
CLASS TUTOR
Tom Holloway, an esteemed Australian playwright, has been a vibrant force in the theatrical landscape, with his base rooted in Melbourne since May 2015. His impactful works have not only graced stages across Australia but have also garnered international acclaim.
Holloway's repertoire boasts an impressive array of productions, including the poignant "Beyond the Neck" at Belvoir St Theatre (2007), the captivating "Red Sky Morning" at Red Stitch Actors Theatre (2008–09) and on regional tours, and the evocative "Don't Say The Words" (2009). "And No More Shall We Part" (2011) captivated audiences at Griffin Theatre Company in Sydney and London's prestigious Hampstead Theatre (2012). His stage adaptation of Colin Thiele's beloved "Storm Boy" premiered to critical acclaim in Sydney in 2013.
Notably, in February 2011, Holloway's compelling work "Fatherland" received its debut at the Gate Theatre in London, further cementing his international reputation as a playwright of exceptional talent.
At Howard Fine Acting Studio, Holloway brings his wealth of experience and insight to aspiring playwrights through his course "Play Writing With Tom Holloway," offering students a unique opportunity to learn from one of Australia's most respected voices in contemporary theatre.
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