Saturday, November 12, 2011 11:00am
MASTER CLASS with Michael Bigelow Dixon: BREAKING WITH REALISM - Playwriting for the 21st Century
at Round House Education Center (925 Wayne Avenue, Silver Spring)
The world has changed. Has your writing?
Join The Inkwell and Michael Bigelow Dixon for a challenging, provocative, and fun workshop for playwrights interested in exploring new forms for a new century.
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November 12 and 13, 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Round House Theatre Education Center
925 Wayne Avenue, Silver Spring
Tuition is $ 100 per person.
Many new plays accept the conventions of Realism -- a 130-year old theatrical. Yet characteristics of life nowadays lie far beyond the conventions of Realism. Our daily lives include surreal juxtapositions of images, radical upheaval and change, a shrinking globe, multicultural communities, awareness of simultaneity, instant information, social networking, environmental disaster, and accelerating developments in technology.
So why should our modern world look on stage anything like the realistic plays of 130 years ago?
The three-character conversation in the drawing room over drinks no longer reflects the magnitude or complexity of living in today's world. To remain relevant and vital, the theatre must find new forms of expression that speak directly to the way we live in the 21st Century.
Michael Bigelow Dixon -- dramaturg, director, teacher and author -- leads students through a dynamic and challenging two-day master class exploring techniques that push playwrights beyond the confines of realism.
Join The Inkwell Saturday November 12 and Sunday November 13 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for this provocative playwriting master class. Tuition is 0 per person.
Reserve your spot today or get more information by emailing Inkwell Artistic Director Jessica Burgess.
Michael Bigelow Dixon was Literary Manager at Actors Theatre of Louisville where he supervised the development and production of several hundred new plays as Literary Manager for the Humana Festival. As Literary Director for the Guthrie Theatre, Michael created a program that commissioned, developed, produced and published 108 new plays in 6 years. He was Resident Director at The Playwrights' Center before moving to Baltimore, where he teaches playwriting, directing, and dramaturgy in the Theatre Department at Goucher College. He's directed world premieres of new plays by Steven Dietz, Julie Marie Myatt, Lee Blessing, and Jane Martin; he's edited 35 volumes of plays and criticism; he co-founded an artists retreat in Minnesota (Tofte Lake Center); and he serves as consultant to the Hermitage Artist Retreat in Florida.
We look forward to seeing you there!
We have more master classes on the horizon! Stay tuned for an upcoming New Play Dramaturgy Lab with Mame Hunt, dramaturg and Associate Artist at Sundance Theatre Lab, on January 28 and 29!
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