The role and impact of Tinderbox dramaturg Hanna Slattne and the Joint Sectoral Dramaturgy Project have been the subject of an article for Contemporary Theatre Review written by Professor Mary Luckhurst at York University.
To find out more about the JSDP and the article click on this post
24th of June to 2nd July
A week long research and development program for writers working with performers and choreographers to explore text and movement in narrative theatre.
To find out more click on this post
A dialogue between Australia and Northern Ireland
2- 5pm Friday 2nd July 2010
Brian Friel Theatre, Drama and Film Centre, Queen’s University Belfast
The discussion will be chaired by Professor Mary Luckhurst, playwright, director, dramaturg and academic.
Speakers: Hanna Slattne, dramaturg with Tinderbox Theatre Company, Belfast
Dr Peter Eckersall, dramaturg with not yet it’s difficult performance company
Dr Duška Radosavljević, dramaturg, theatre critic and academic, University of Kent
For more information click on this post
A rehearsed reading Directed by Des Kennedy with actors Kieran Lagan and John Travers
Sunday 11th April, 1pm at Ulster Hall. £1
Click on the post for details of the play
If you are a young writer aged 16 to 25 interested in writing for the stage Fireworks might be something for you. Fireworks is a 5 months long specialised program to take you through the process of writing a play from idea through redrafting and into the rehearsal room.
The applications deadline for this year is the 3rd of May.
For the dates and outline of the program and how to apply click on this link.
Three young writers who went through The Fireworks Young Writers Programme at Tinderbox in the past two years will be writing a new online drama for young people with BBC Blast. Michael Shannon, Samantha Heaney and Leo McGann will be writing 2 episodes each for the new pilot series which will be performed by young actors from the Tinderbox Revolutions project and broadcast online later in the spring.
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and
is following up on the successful festival in 2009 with another 4 day festival of script writing skills workshops and industry talks in conjunction with the Tony Doyle Bursary 2010.
The workshops will take place between the 20th and 23rd of January in Belfast.
Tinderbox is delighted to welcome Conor McKee as the new Writer in Attachment; a year long programme sponsored by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
Originally from Omagh, Conor has been based in Manchester for the last few years and is excited to be back in Northern Ireland working with Tinderbox.
