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The Realities of Theatre for Young Audiences:
Edmonton: November 20 & 21, 2010 - Calgary: November 27 & 28, 2010
This two-day, intensive workshop will focus on the creation of Theatre for Young Audiences, from both the writing and production aspects. TYA producers, Duval Lang and Mieko Ouchi will lead seminars focusing on understanding and overcoming obstacles that face TYA production.
Day One (10AM - 5PM) - "Understanding the Marketplace", with Duval Lang
Former Artistic Director of Quest Theatre in Calgary, Duval Lang, will guide participants through a discussion entitled "Understanding the Marketplace". What is the market for TYA plays in Alberta and beyond? Topics of conversation will range from curriculum concerns to censorship, satisfying your stakeholders to satisfying your vision, engaging an audience and creating a dialogue (especially with teens).
Day Two (10AM - 5PM) - "Know your Audience, Challenge your Audience", with Mieko Ouchi
Artistic Co-Director of Concrete Theatre in Edmonton, Mieko Ouchi, . She will guide participants through a discussion entitled "Know your Audience, Challenge your Audience". Topics of conversation will range from what playwrights need to know and think about when writing for different age groups, to the intersections where a play's content meets curriculum and the community, ethics and responsibilities around writing socially relevant new work and specific ideas for engaging young audiences.
Where: Edmonton: November 20 & 21 - Calgary: November 27 & 28 (Locations TBD)
Cost: APN Members - ($180/weekend), Non Members - ($220/weekend)*
Cost includes registration and two collections of TYA plays (Sprouts! An Anthology of Plays from Concrete Theatre's Sprouts New Play Festival for Kids and The Field/Mouse Collection by Clem Martini).
*Non members fees also include a one year membership to APN.
Classes are restricted to 12 participants, so enroll early. To enroll, please print off either the Edmonton form or Calgary form and mail it back to us with your payment. For more information please email trevor@albertaplaywrights.com.
Playwriting Circles (Calgary & Edmonton):
Next Edmonton Circle
Sept 20-Nov 29
Application
Next Calgary Circle
Oct 6-Nov 24
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Are you struggling to complete that next play (or even that first play)? Are you seeking constructive feedback and criticism? Would you benefit from the support and encouragement of your peers? Perhaps a Playwriting Circle, run by APN, is what you're looking for.
Each Playwriting Circle runs one night a week for 8 weeks. You bring the piece you're currently working on, or would like to start working on. You set your own goals for the process. Guided by experienced playwrights Gordon Pengilly in Calgary and Conni Massing in Edmonton, APN's Playwriting Circles will help you to focus your work and move forward with it, working with a small group of your peers.
Cost: $200 (plus cost of membership for non-members)
Locations: TBA
For more information or to register in an upcoming playwriting circle, contact Trevor Rueger at trevor@albertaplaywrights.com or call (403) 269-8564 or toll-free 1-800-268-8564.
Gordon Pengilly: An award-winning playwright, Gordon Pengilly has written more than fifty plays for television, film, radio and stage. His plays, including Seeds, Swipe, Metastasis, Contraption and They Don't Call Them Farmers Anymore, have been produced across Canada and elsewhere and he has also been resident playwright for theatres and institutions across the country. His screenplay Drumheller Or Dangerous Times won the 2003 Writer's Guild of Canada Jim Burt Prize for screenwriting. His one-act play The Work Play, which premiered in New York in 2000, then in Japan in 2002, was recently made into a short film in Los Angeles. Gordon is also one of the most prolific radio dramatists in Canada.
Conni Massing: Conni is an award-winning writer working in theatre, film, radio, and television. Recent stage credits include the hit comedy The Myth of Summer (ATP), and Homesick (Workshop West Theatre), both published by Playwrights Canada Press. She is currently adapting W.O. Mitchell's Jake and the Kid for Theatre Calgary. Massing has been Playwright-in-Residence at theatres across Canada and she teaches playwriting and screenwriting in the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta. Conni's work has received AMPIA, Academy of Cinema and Television, Betty Mitchell, and Elizabeth Sterling Haynes awards as well as a Queen's Jubilee Medal (for contributions to the arts) and she was featured in APN's recent book Theatre 100.
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