This masterclass is run in partnership with the MA Dramatic Writing at Drama Centre London, Central Saint Martins, as part of London Writers Week – an annual celebration of new writing talent in the UK
This event is an exciting opportunity to see a sneak preview of Tamasha Theatre’s new site-specific participatory theatre project, Taxi Tales, in London for the first time. Join Tamasha’s artistic director Fin Kennedy for a live performance by Middlesbrough’s minicab drivers, who have been working with playwright Ishy Din to develop monologues which are in turn, performed to customers in their cabs. The showcase will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with Fin, Ishy, the drivers and the show’s co-directors Evie Manning and Boz Temple-Morris.
Course content
- Panel discussion on creating verbatim drama with the team involved in creating Taxi Tales
- Using testimonies and real life events in drama
- Exclusive preview of Tamasha Theatre Company’s latest site-specific participatory community project Taxi Tales
- Learn how Taxi Tales originated and developed
- Discussion with Tamasha artists on how Taxi Tales was written, directed and recorded
- How the interview process worked
- Panel discussion on new models for creating work based on real life events
- The future of participatory drama in the UK
- Different mediums – from theatre to radio, film and television
- Q&A with Fin, Ishy, the drivers and other panel members
You may also be interested in…
- London Writers Week: Creating drama based on real-life events
- London Writers Week: Writing for theatre with Ola Animashawun
Tutor profile
Fin Kennedy is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been produced in the UK and abroad. He has written for the Soho Theatre, the Sheffield Crucible and Southwark Playhouse, among others, and has had three Afternoon Plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4. His play How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found became the first unproduced play ever to win the John Whiting Award. Fin is also the artistic director of Tamasha theatre company, and one of the 10 ‘Masters’ behind the new MA in Dramatic Writing at Central Saint Martins, London.
Taxi Tales is currently at research and development stage so this will be a work-in-progress performance. Tamasha hopes to roll the format out in other UK towns and cities next year.
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