The Playwright’s Performance Project is designed to pull participants out of the house this winter to bounce ideas off each other and create their own “quirky, dramatic, hilarious or heartbreaking 10 minute play.”
The project starts Monday, Feb. 15 (notice received too late for Feb. 9 issue of Vanguard) and will continue for six weeks - each Monday and Wednesday, from 7-9:30 p.m. It will conclude with a showcase dessert theatre evening on Saturday, March 27.
Facilitator Linda Marie Coakley has been writing, directing and producing plays in Canada, the United States and England since her first backyard drama at age nine with a cast of 13 neighbourhood youth.
“We will work together on writing exercises, and in pairs to bounce off ideas, and finally fly solo with plays crystallized and ready to shine on stage,” she said.
“It’s hoped that participants may want to star in each others' 10 minute plays, or maybe they are already thinking of an unsuspecting neighbour or the guy at the checkout in the grocery store,” she said.
Coakley views the challenging and fascinating 10-minute play format as a springboard to creativity.
Cost is $100 for 60 hours of sessions for non-members, $75 for Th’YARC members and $60 for students. All funds will be directed towards the new YARC.
For more information contact Coakley at 902-742-1945.
