Session Ten: Monologues

Understanding how to write entire monologues or lengthy speeches for one character:

• Exploring the forms Speech, Soliloquy, Monologue and One-Person show
• Discover the important relationship between audience and character, and time, and how a single character can be a reliable or unreliable narrator

Course Outline:

This comprehensive 11-month course guides the aspiring playwright through all the fundamental important aspects of playwriting, from generating ideas and creating characters, to structuring a story for the stage. Each workshop explores one or more aspects in depth, including creating conflict and drama, developing themes and message, worldbuilding, engaging your audience throughout, how to format a play as a written script, and writing sparkling, purposeful dialogue which leaps off the page.

The course combines theory with practical advice and first-hand experience, covering full-length plays, short plays and monologues. Participants are encouraged to create work which will be producible by theatres in the real world. The classes include written exercises alongside engagement with play texts and performed scenes.

Please note there is a supporting Google Classroom for this course and the direct link to join can be found in confirmation email under the Additional information section.

If you have any accessibility requirements, please directly get in touch with us at pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk

If you are not sure if this class is for you or would like more information, please contact us to discuss. Ask the organiser or email: pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk

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NB: To make the most of the Playwriting Classes with Lucy Kaufman, please ensure that you book your place and that you are prepared to attend all the available sessions, there are 11 monthly sessions in total.

Tickets will be released in three-month blocks for the following dates:

• 7 September 2022
• 5 October 2022
• 2 November 2022
• 7 December 2022
• 11 January 2023
• 8 February 2023
• 8 March 2023
• 5 April 2023
• 10 May 2023
• 7 June 2023
• 12 July 2023

• NB: Content includes viewing films for illustration purposes which may feature content that some people may find upsetting, uses language or depicts scenes reflecting attitudes to race and sex that are no longer seen as acceptable.

• Booking is essential. Pen to Print and our partners reserve the right to remove participants who are found not to have booked a place for a session.

• Pen to Print and our partners reserve the right to remove participants who are disruptive to a session.

• Pen to Print and our partners reserve the right to remove participants from the Google Classroom that have failed to attend the session.

• Pen to Print and our partners reserve the right to unenroll a participant from a course and explore an alternative approach to supporting them on their writing journey, if we feel that a class is unsuitable for that participant.