The Way Plays Sound
6pm, Monday 11th November 2024
We can be so concerned with what our plays are about. But how important is the way they sound? The meter and rhythm of the words we use has a profound effect on performance, meaning and the way a writer controls the audience’s experience. So how do you write with musicality, crafting lines and exchanges that come to life in the mouths of actors? How do you write dialogue that feels right? And what linguistic tools do you have at your disposal to help develop a distinctive voice of your own?
Join award-winning playwright James Fritz, winner of a Judge’s Award at the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2015 for his play Parliament Square, as he explores how an embedded understanding of the rhythm of dialogue can help create humour, tension and thrilling moments of theatricality for your audiences. This livestream workshop will equip you with a toolkit to enhance the musicality of your writing.
Simply head to the homepage of this website www.writeaplay.co.uk at 6pm Monday 11th November to join – we will be taking questions from our online audience throughout! Don’t worry if you can’t make it live, the recorded workshop will be archived and made available on a webpage afterwards.
About James Fritz
James Fritz is a writer from South London.
Plays for stage include The Flea (The Yard), Lava (Fifth Word/Soho Theatre), The Fall (National Youth Theatre/Southwark Playhouse), Parliament Square (Royal Exchange/Bush Theatre), Start Swimming (Young Vic), Ross & Rachel (Assembly/BAC/59E59), Four Minutes Twelve Seconds (Hampstead Theatre/Trafalgar Studios) and LINES (Rosemary Branch Theatre).
Plays for audio include: Life and Time, The Test Batter Can’t Breathe, Dear Harry Kane, Eight Point Nine Nine, Death Of A Cosmonaut, Comment Is Free (all BBC Radio 4) and Skyscraper Lullaby (Audible Originals)
Awards include the Critics Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright, A Bruntwood Prize Judge’s Award, The Imison and Tinniswood BBC Audio Drama Awards and the ARIA Award for Best Drama on two separate occasions. He has also been nominated for the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre and was runner-up in the 2013 Verity Bargate Award.