COD 2008 - P084
The Playwriting Toolbox
Teachers from 4th grade through high school. This workshop does not require any previous theatre training.
2
sessions, start: 25-Sep
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2008
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mr. Daniel Berlfein
ESSARP Schools
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Exams Schools
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Non affiliate
ARS 90.00
ARS 90.00
Sessions
| Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 September 2008 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
| 2 | 09 October 2008 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Daniel Berlfein
Teachers from 4th grade through high school. This workshop does not require any previous theatre training.
Participants will be exposed to a number of hands-on playwriting activities (creative writing, drama games, and improvs). These exercises will build upon each other. At the end of the workshop, attendants will have the necessary tools to engage and stimulate students as well as the guidelines and structure to help them write a play. Participants will end the workshop with an outline of a piece.
This workshop does not require any previous theatre training. Each Session includes five topics. These topics will be taught through different techniques and exercises. In addition to this, most exercises end with a writing assignment.
This workshop does not require any previous theatre training. Each Session includes five topics. These topics will be taught through different techniques and exercises. In addition to this, most exercises end with a writing assignment.
Session I
- Why write a Play? Discuss the purpose of playwriting, how it develops vocabulary, grammar, and creative writing skills. Discuss the importance of enabling young people share their stories and find their true voices.
- Ice breakers and focusers. Establishing a safe environment to write and create. Exercises: "What's in a Name", "Paper Airplane", "Creating the Space"
- Character. Character as the engine that jumpstarts a play. Using photographs to develop characters. Asking questions about pictures to develop characters. Writing human and animal characters. Exercises: "The Need to Tell", "Wizard's Waiting Room", "People & Animals".
- Monolgue vs Dialogue. Participants will be introduced to different techniques to stimulate monologue and dialogue writing. Collaborative writing, class members will write in pairs and in large groups. Exercises: "Exquisite Corpse", "The Letter Exercise", "One minute Play", "Object Monologue".
- Conflict. Structure, it's definition and it's relevance to the play. Introduce structure's elements, Set Up/ Action/ Resolution. The importance of the "obstacles" and/or "complications" in the scene. Exercises: "Lemon Scene", "Dollar Bill Scene", "Writing on Your Feet".
Session II
- Setting. Discuss definition and purpose of a setting. Use music to create settings' mood. Show different samples of settings from traditional and non-traditional plays. Exercise: "The Music Exercise".
- Imaginative Writing. Advantages and challenges of writing non-lineal pieces that go against common sense.
Exercises: "Green People", "Creating a World".
- Putting it together. How to make an outline of your play. Differences between action and activity in a scene. How to live out each moment of the play to the fullest? The syndrome of rushing to the end. How to keep the focus on the action (objective).
Exercises: "Five Steps to the End", "The Object of the Game is", "Major Dramatic Questions".
- Rewriting & Editing: Discuss the concept "writing is rewriting" What does it mean? Working in pairs. Guidelines on how should students give feedback to each other.
Exercises: "The Producer's Cuts", "Rewriting Worksheet".
- Presenting the scenes. By the end of the workshop participants will read their work to the rest of the group. Together, workshop members will exchange ideas on how to implement these techniques within their classrooms. Group members will also discuss what type of presentation would be useful for their students.
- Why write a Play? Discuss the purpose of playwriting, how it develops vocabulary, grammar, and creative writing skills. Discuss the importance of enabling young people share their stories and find their true voices.
- Ice breakers and focusers. Establishing a safe environment to write and create. Exercises: "What's in a Name", "Paper Airplane", "Creating the Space"
- Character. Character as the engine that jumpstarts a play. Using photographs to develop characters. Asking questions about pictures to develop characters. Writing human and animal characters. Exercises: "The Need to Tell", "Wizard's Waiting Room", "People & Animals".
- Monolgue vs Dialogue. Participants will be introduced to different techniques to stimulate monologue and dialogue writing. Collaborative writing, class members will write in pairs and in large groups. Exercises: "Exquisite Corpse", "The Letter Exercise", "One minute Play", "Object Monologue".
- Conflict. Structure, it's definition and it's relevance to the play. Introduce structure's elements, Set Up/ Action/ Resolution. The importance of the "obstacles" and/or "complications" in the scene. Exercises: "Lemon Scene", "Dollar Bill Scene", "Writing on Your Feet".
Session II
- Setting. Discuss definition and purpose of a setting. Use music to create settings' mood. Show different samples of settings from traditional and non-traditional plays. Exercise: "The Music Exercise".
- Imaginative Writing. Advantages and challenges of writing non-lineal pieces that go against common sense.
Exercises: "Green People", "Creating a World".
- Putting it together. How to make an outline of your play. Differences between action and activity in a scene. How to live out each moment of the play to the fullest? The syndrome of rushing to the end. How to keep the focus on the action (objective).
Exercises: "Five Steps to the End", "The Object of the Game is", "Major Dramatic Questions".
- Rewriting & Editing: Discuss the concept "writing is rewriting" What does it mean? Working in pairs. Guidelines on how should students give feedback to each other.
Exercises: "The Producer's Cuts", "Rewriting Worksheet".
- Presenting the scenes. By the end of the workshop participants will read their work to the rest of the group. Together, workshop members will exchange ideas on how to implement these techniques within their classrooms. Group members will also discuss what type of presentation would be useful for their students.
Young Playwrights of New York exercises, DIE (Drama in Education) strategies, Daniel Sklar's Playmaking techniques, and Gerald Chapman Teaching Young playwrights’ methods.
Sklar, D. J. (1991) Playmaking, Children Writing & Performing Their Own Plays, New York: Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
Chapman, G. (1991) Teaching Young Playwrights, New Hampshire: Heinemann.
Polsky, M. E. (2002) You Can Write A play, New York: Applause.
Chapman, G. (1991) Teaching Young Playwrights, New Hampshire: Heinemann.
Polsky, M. E. (2002) You Can Write A play, New York: Applause.