Host: Playwrights Workshop Trinbago and The National Drama Association of Trinidad and Tobago
Present: Play Development Workshop Series
Discipline: Theatre
Subcategories: Playwriting
Skill Level: Beginner – Intermediate
Description: The Playwrights Workshop Trinbago in collaboration with the National Drama Association of Trinidad and Tobago will host a Play Development Workshop (PDW). The workshop series carries the theme “Writing a Short Play” and will comprise six (6) sessions, to be facilitated by veteran playwrights and theatre practitioners.
Objectives
- Participants to be taught what is a short play and the elements of writing a short play.
- Participants to complete a short play by the end of the 6th session.
- Short plays to feed into the Monthly Readers Theatre Series.
- Short plays become eligible for further development/performance in front of an audience.
Duration: 6th – 13th October 2018
Dates | Times October 6th, 7th and 13th | 9AM – 4PM (See Workshop Schedule)
Location: The Big Black Box | #33 Murray Street, Woodbrook, POS
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.
Ronald John is a prize winning playwright/director and a veteran of the Playwrights Workshop Trinbago, and has written and staged many plays in over 40 years of activity in the theatre community.
His play, MIRACLE, was staged at Trinidad Theatre Workshop as part of the New Play Festival in October in 2016. His most recent work, EILEEN AND ME, was staged for four weekends, at Little Carib Theatre and the Big Black Box, from October 2016 to July this 2017. His romantic drama; Dance Me, Lover, was also the first play to be staged at the National Academy for the Performing Arts(NAPA) in November 2009.
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.
Marvin L. Ishmael graduated from York University (Toronto) where he received his MFA in directing. He obtained his BFA from Ryerson University (Toronto.) He is the former founder and artistic director of We Are One Theatre Productions, which was the first Canadian Company of color to be invited to perform at The Du Maurier World Stage Festival. He has written sixteen plays all produced in Canada and the USA, he received a Chalmers Award for “Forever Free” and a Dora Mavor Moore Award for “My Father, My Hero”.
He was nominated for a 2016 Gemini Award as Best Actor in a supporting role /Comedy for his work in Season 2 and 3 – Ces Gars La(Montreal)
In addition to acting, Marvin Ishmael has directed over fifty productions and recently completed formed The Renaissance Theatre Company which made its debut with “Look Twice It’s You Wife” written and directed by Marvin Ishmael
Judith Theodore
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.
Other Facilitators Include: Zeno Constance, Ronald John, Christine Johnston and Verne Guerin
Workshop Schedule :
Saturday 6th October 2018 | Big Black Box
- 9AM – 12PM | What Is A Play?
- 1PM – 4PM | Plot Development
Sunday 7th October 2018 | Big Black Box
- 9AM – 12PM | Character Development
- 1PM – 4PM | Writing Dialogue
Saturday 13th October 2018 | Big Black Box
- 9AM – 12PM | Writing Stage Directions
- 1PM – 5PM | Writing A Short Play
Cost: $50 for full workshop
Registration NOW OPEN
Registration Location: Online
Additional Info: Persons interested in participating are invited to join the NDATT to experience this and other membership benefits. CLICK HERE to view benefits to members.
Participation cost $50, which includes one FREE ticket for one performance in the PWT’s New Play Festival 2018 (ticket valued at $50). It is an opportunity to experience another phase in the playmaking process and to see the potential that can be reached as a playwright involved with the PWT, and to experience the talk-back theatre in the panel discussion.
Workshop details submitted by: Safa Niamat-Ali
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