ADVANCES IN SCRIPTWRITING
Dates: Wednesdays 14 March to 9 May (please note there will be no class on 11 April) Course OverviewAs the title suggests this is not a beginners’ class. It is aimed at writers who have had one or two of their films/plays produced, or are having serious interest shown in their work by producers or agents. The course tutor is Stephen Jeffreys who has been writing plays since 1977. He is the co-author of Backbeat currently playing at the Duke of York’s Theatre. His screenplay Caught in Flight about Princess Diana’s affair with Dr Hasnut Khan is in pre-production with Jessica Chastain playing the Princess. His other plays include Carmen 36, The Clink, The Jovial Crew, Hard Times, Valued Friends, A Going Concern, The Libertine, I Just Dropped By to See the Man, Interruptions, Lost Land and The Convicts’ Opera. They have been commissioned variously by Paines Plough Theatre Company, Out of Joint Theatre Company, the RSC, Hampstead Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Chicago) and Sydney Theatre Company. A film version of The Libertine was produced in 2004/5 with Johnny Depp as the Earl of Rochester and John Malkovitch as Chales II. Course DetailsStephen’s classes provide original approaches to essential techniques. The eight classes include:
There is a high level of imaginative but accessible class exercises, but minimal homework. Previous participants have included Hassan Abdulrazzak, Lolita Chakrabarti, Neil D’Souza, Bettina Gracias, Stacey Gregg, Anders Lustgarten , Darren Murphy, Nick Payne, and Steve Thompson. Applications for the course must be accompanied by evidence of serious consideration of one of the applicant’s full-length scripts by a producing company or literary agent, and a copy of the script. |