WRITING WITH DRAMA
With Mia Gallagher, best-selling novelist and dramatist
What makes writing compelling and alive? What is your unique narrative voice? What makes a good plot great? What makes dialogue believable?
 What this workshop is…
This fun, challenging and highly interactive workshop aims to help you uncover the elements in your writing that make it truly unique. The games, improvisation and writing exercises that Mia will share come from her experience as an award-winning short-story writer and novelist, a seasoned actor/deviser with international touring experience and over ten years of facilitating drama and storytelling. Group feedback sessions and a unique balance between physical activities and more traditional writing exercises contribute to a truly holistic experience.
Why Drama?
Drama is one of our earliest literary forms; the tragedies and comedies of Aeschylus and Euripides predated the appearance of the first novel by nearly 2,000 years. We learn to speak and play before we learn to write. Children only starting to master alphabet are able to construct sophisticated narrative stories through make-believe and role-play. While not everyone is an actor, we can all understand how drama works.
What we will be doing…
- Voice: Playing with devices like the ‘messenger speech’ and inner monologue to uncover possibilities for narrative voice.
- Narrative: Analysing story-structure through play and games to hone a sense of the pitfalls, tricks and techniques which make good plots great.
- Character: Using dramatic devices like ‘hot-seating’ and status games to develop authentic, believable characters.
- Dialogue and action: Using improvisation and collective story-writing to sharpen the interactions between your characters.
By the end of this workshop, you will have a deeper sense of your own unique ‘dramatic fingerprint’; the writing forms that appeal to you most – and at which you best shine!
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