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Playwriting: Revisions with Jarek Pastor
Feb 24, 2:00pm
T006 Design Lab
You’ve finished the first draft of a play. Now what? Rewriting can feel tricky and intimidating. You’ve earnestly poured every hope and intention into that first draft, but intention is only a part of expression, and what is a play if it does not communicate with an audience? Whether you’re slowly rescripting in solitude or reworking moments during breaks from rehearsal, revision makes up the bulk of a playwright’s work.
In this workshop, we will discuss tools and techniques to strength-test what you’ve put on the page and its relation to performance, experiment with revision strategies, explore lenses you can use to dig into the dramaturgy of your play, and engage in exercises to illuminate what you already have from new perspectives. This workshop is for those who have scripts they’d like to develop further, want to think more dramaturgically, or don’t even know where to begin when it comes to revision. Sign up here.