Host: Playwrights Workshop Trinbago
Presents: New Play Festival 2017 Playwriting Workshop Series
Discipline: Theatre
Subcategories: Playwriting
Skill Level: Intermediate
Description: For the New Play Festival 2017, the Playwrights Workshop Trinbago will be expanding its repertoire to include six play writing workshops. These workshops will be taught by masters in the field over the course of four weekends between October 21 and November 11.
In order, the workshops are: What is a Play, (mandatory for all persons attending any of the other workshops); Character Development; Plot Development; Writing Dialogue; Writing Stage Directions; and, Writing Plays from Novels. Facilitators will include Earl Lovelace, Tony Hall, Dr. Efebo Wilkinson, Dr. Helmer Hilwig, Dr. Dani Lyndersay and Judith Theodore.
Space is limited. RSVP is REQUIRED
Duration: 21st October – 11th November 2017
Dates | Times | Locations: (See Workshop Schedule)
Cost: FREE
Facilitators:
Earl Lovelace | Source: Alchetron.com
Earl Lovelace, is a novelist, short-story writer, and playwright celebrated for his descriptive, dramatic fiction about West Indian culture.
His work includes, While Gods Are Falling (1965), The Schoolmaster (1968), The Dragon Can’t Dance (1979), The Wine of Astonishment (1982) & Salt (1996), which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (later called Commonwealth Book Prize); and Is Just a Movie (2011). Lovelace also published the short-story collection A Brief Conversion and Other Stories (1988), as well as the plays The New Hardware Store and My Name Is Village, both collected in Jestina’s Calypso & Other Plays (1984), and The Reign of Anancy (1989). He also wrote (with his daughter Asha Lovelace) the screenplay for Joebell and America (2004), a TV movie based on his short story of the same name.
Dr. Dani Lyndersay is an internationally recognised expert on Theatre Education, having served as Head of Theatre Arts at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
She began her own theatre education as a student of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in the 1960s and later received a Master of Arts in Theatre in Education from the University of Victoria, Canada. After working as a Senior Arts fellow at several universities in Africa, Dr Lyndersay earned her doctorate in Theatre from the University of Nigeria in 1988. During her career, she co-founded Arts-in-Action, a theatre-in-education company and has conducted numerous workshops around the world.
Dr. Efebo Wilkinson is a Playwright, Poet, Stage Director, Dramaturge, Workshop Facilitator and Lecturer in Theatre Arts at the Centre for Creative and Festival Arts at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.
He has won several awards for playwriting and directing. His plays include: To Confirm St. Peter (1976) , Capital Death (1977), Bitter Cassava (1979) and Same Khaki Pants (1980) to name a few.
In 2004, he was presented with the National Drama Association’s “Vanguard Award” for his pioneering work in theatre, and in 2007, he received the Gayelle Television “Pierrot Independence Award” for his contribution to the development of the national community. That same year he was named Poet Laureate of the City of Port of Spain by the Mayor of Port of Spain. In 2009, he was inducted into the St. Mary’s College Hall of Fame.
Born in the Netherlands, Dr Helmer Hilwig is a medical doctor by profession. He came to Trinidad in 1983, to stay for one year, but 34 years later he is still here.
His involvement in theatre dates back to his university-days when he joined one of the major Dutch Theatre companies and soon extended into film and television. He has been very involved in local theatre since his arrival as actor or director and worked with The Bagasse Company, Raymond Choo Kong Productions, The Love Movement, PresCon Choir, Brian MacFarlane Productions, Picoplat Music Development Foundation, Nancy Jackman and Christopher Rodriguez to name a few.
Judith Theodore is an artist, author, playwright and actress. She is a contributor to Trinidad Noir and Moving Right Along: Caribbean Stories in Honour of John Cropper. Her short play The Big Debate was showcased in a Trinidad Theatre Workshop production in February 2010
Tony Hall | Photo Courtesy: Tony Hall
Tony Hall is as a playwright, screenwriter, actor and director. He is an alumnus of the University of Alberta and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (both in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), and has presented the Jouvay Popular Theatre Process [JPTP], implemented worldwide as a performance model for actor ‘training’ and play-making as well as for personal and community ‘development’.
With his company – Lordstreet Theatre, Tony Hall has composed and produced landmark award-winning plays including: ‘Jean and Dinah . . . Speak Their Minds Publicly’ (1994), winner of five Cacique Awards for theatre in 1994-5 and recognized in 2014 by the President of the Borough of Brooklyn, NYC, for twenty years of touring this Lordstreet Theatre production; ‘Twilight Cafe’ (2001), also winner of five Cacique Awards for theatre in 2002-3; ‘The Brand New Lucky Diamond Horseshoe Club’ (2006) with lyrics and music by David Rudder, awarded Most Outstanding Original Music in 2006; and ‘MISS MILES the Woman of the World’ (2011), after its premiere at The Little Carib Theatre, Port of Spain in October 2011, was presented in Hartford, CT. April, 2014.
Workshop Schedule :
Saturday 21st October 2017 | St Francois Girls’ College
- 9AM – 12PM | What Is A Play? – Earl Lovelace & Tony Hall & Dr Lester Efebo Wilkinson
Sunday 22nd October 2017 | St Francois Girls’ College
- 10AM – 1PM |Character Development – Judith Theodore
Saturday 28th October 2017 | St Francois Girls’ College
- 9AM – 12PM | Plot Development – Dr Helmer Hilwig
- 1PM – 4PM | Writing Dialogue – Dr Lester Efebo Wilkinson
Saturday 4th November 2017 |Big Black Box
- 10AM – 1PM | Writing Stage Directions – Dr Dani Lyndersay
Saturday 11th November 2017 at Big Black Box
- 2PM – 5PM | Writing A Play From A Novel – Earl Lovelace
Registration Opens: 14th – 20th October 2017
Registration Location: Online
Additional Info: Participants will be required to walk with writing material (notebook + pencil) or their laptop/ tablet.
Contact: newplayfestivaltt@hotmail.com, (868) 351-6293
Workshop details submitted by: Safa Niamat-Ali
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