From Excavating to Sharing: Playwriting To Meet the Moment with Leslie Gauthier (6-weeks on Zoom)

How do we connect to the present moment, or even the future, through playwriting? Why is it that some plays seem timeless while others are forgotten? By mining the subconscious and using all parts of our storytelling brain, scenes, monologues, characters, and settings emerge. When our playwriting is based in actual play, curiosity, and is in relationship to its environment, the elements of our plays make for lasting stories. 

In this 6-week course, students will be given exercises and tools that encourage exciting, fascinating, raw first drafts and world-building. The class meets on October 8, 15, 22, 29, Nov.5, and Nov. 12, from 6:30-8:30 pm on Zoom. Students will then delve into structure, from the most traditional to the most experimental examples, taking into account the role the environment plays in some of the most famous theatrical works of all time. In the second half of the course, students will b…