PLAYWRITING – INTRODUCTION
MKCW – ‘Creative Writing: The World on Stage’ Course Outline
Thanks for enrolling in the course. I hope you enjoy it and find it very rewarding. Please see the outline below. If you have any further queries relating to the course, please email info@martinkeaveney.com.
Week 1
Introduction to Live Performance Writing
Week 2
Campfires & Language
Week 3
Greek Theatre
Week 4
The Character
Week 5
Renaissance Theatre
Week 6
Story on Stage
Week 7
Formats
Week 8
Realism
Week 9
Modernism
Week 10
Postmoderism
Week 11
Submission
Week 12
Special Focus
Participants have the option to submit weekly writing for feedback and read their material during weekly workshop. A Final Project option is available to all at the end of the course.
Reading list
Readings are optional but they are helpful for weekly discussion.
Stanislavski, Constantin. An Actor Prepares. Bloomsbury, 2013. (First published 1936).
Brecht, Bertolt. 1928 The Threepenny Opera Methuen Drama , 2005. (1928)
Others TBA.
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