On driving your story
In-Sook Chappell was shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwrighting in 2013 for P'YONGYANG. She offers some pointers on character,…
Sophie Woolley: Why I write
From going deaf in her 20s to being switched on as a real-life ‘cyborg’, Sophie Woolley’s brand new play is…
Vinay Patel: Why I write
Playwright Vinay Patel considers the tension and movement between stories from the fringes and the spaces and places in which…
On adaptation
What does it mean to put a story on stage? Amanda Dalton writes for BBC Radio 3 and 4 -…
Essay: The collective imagination
What can one person do to change a whole story? Dramaturg and director Anthony Simpson-Pike extends three thought experiments to…
On theatre as enquiry
Chinonyerem Odimba was shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwrighting in 2015 for WILD IS DE WIND. She offers three…
Working with story on stage
Duncan Macmillan is an award-winning theatre director and writer of LUNG, EVERY BRILLIANT THING and 2071. He won a prize at the inaugural…