Masterclass Workshop with David Edgar

A new writing masterclass workshop with one of England’s finest playwrights took place on Sunday 14th November at Hotbed. The footage beneath is from David Edgar’s workshop on the ‘Structure of Scenes’…

Talk and book launch with Steve Waters

Steve’s new book on playwrighting – The Secret Life of Plays – draws on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern. Steve takes the reader through the key elements of dramatic writing – scenes, acts, space, time, characters, language and images – to show how a play is more than the sum of its parts, with as much inner vitality as a living organism.

‘Theatre is a live medium, about bodies, sweat and feeling, even if it is informed by ideas and reason. How a thing composed of words manages to carry within it the currents of energy that generate that impression of life is what I want to explore…’ Steve Waters