{"id":479,"date":"2011-11-29T16:20:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T16:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=479"},"modified":"2011-11-29T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T16:20:28","slug":"dramatic-writing-students-staged-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2011\/11\/29\/dramatic-writing-students-staged-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic Writing Students Staged Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While prose (and some poetry) is primarily designed to be read on the page, plays are written to be performed. The best test of a play, therefore, is for it to be read by professional actors. As part of the Creative Writing degree at the University of Gloucestershire, second year Dramatic Writing students last May hosted a day of table-top and staged readings with Cheltenham\u2019s Everyman Theatre\u2019s Artistic Director, Paul Milton, and a group of the theatre\u2019s creative associates and actors. Twelve plays, written over the course of the year, were rehearsed in-house by Paul and his team. The variety of the work offered a real challenge; there were plays about Afghanistan, an adaptation of an A.E Houseman poem, issue-based drama examining sex trafficking in Cheltenham, an NHS critique, a feminist piece on the death penalty and stylistically interesting work moving between high-realism and experimental challenges to traditional drama. Actors commended students\u2019 ability to write for performance and it was great to see the scripts brought to life. You can watch a sample of the readings via the links below (many thanks to Luke Dean for arranging the recording):<\/p>\n

Script by Tatia Nichols-Arles<\/a>
\nScript by Rachel Kelby <\/a>
\nScript by Keely O’shaughnessy<\/a>
\nScript by Jenny O’Mahony<\/a>
\nScript by Holly Brown<\/a>
\nScript by Claire Leek<\/a>
\nScript by Claire Holland<\/a>
\nScript by Chris Bryant<\/a>
\nScript by Luke Dean<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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