How To Write A Play with Mike Bartlett

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Series Finale - Week Eleven: What is the Higher Purpose?

Season 1 · Episode 11

Friday, July 14, 2023 • Duration 27:09

In the last episode of the series, we discuss commissions and how our writers can take the next step.

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‘I was living in a fool’s paradise’: Adrienne Kennedy on meeting the Beatles and losing control of her play – The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/jun/06/adrienne-kennedy-on-meeting-the-beatles-american-playwright-john-lennon

‘Play’ by Samuel Beckett: https://youtu.be/s2QJ0FYE3pw

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Week Ten: Reviews and characters

Season 1 · Episode 10

Friday, July 7, 2023 • Duration 26:10

Episode 10: Reviews and characters

This week we talk about reviews (should you read them?) and Mike discusses character.

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WhatsOnStage: Time Out retires one- and two-star review ratings: https://www.whatsonstage.com/news/time-out-retires-one-and-two-star-review-ratings_58852/

Hugh Laurie’s song “Mystery”: https://youtu.be/3sW-LcxijrM

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Week One: How to Start!

Season 1 · Episode 1

Friday, April 28, 2023 • Duration 30:29

In Episode One, we kick off the Old Fire Station's How to Write a Play course with Mike Bartlett. We discuss how to start a play, where they come from, and some exercises to use. We also talk about how playwrights and theatres can work together, and Mike answers your questions.

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Sarah Kane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Kane
The Artist’s Way: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Artists-Way-by-Julia-Cameron/9781788164290
Royal Court Theatre: https://royalcourttheatre.com/
Hampstead Theatre: https://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/
Headlong Theatre: https://www.headlong.co.uk/
The Stage - “Theatres told to stop ‘ghosting’ playwrights”: https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/theatres-told-to-stop-ghosting-playwrights
Support the Old Fire Station: https://oldfirestation.org.uk/support-us/
Transcript available here: https://oldfirestation.org.uk/our-work/how-to-write-a-play/

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Season 1

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 • Duration 00:39

On this brand-new podcast presented by The Old Fire Station, Oxford we'll be talking to triple Olivier Award-winner Mike Bartlett about how to write a play. This podcast series runs alongside the eleven-week course of the same held in-person, held at the Old Fire Station, Oxford.

You can find show notes and transcripts here: https://oldfirestation.org.uk/our-work/how-to-write-a-play/

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Week Nine: Character, and BONUS interview with Paines Plough's Katie Posner

Season 1 · Episode 9

Friday, June 30, 2023 • Duration 34:19

Episode 9: Character, plus BONUS interview with Paines Plough's Katie Posner

This week we look at how to develop character in your work, and Mike interviews Katie Posner from new writing development company Pains Plough's work.

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Tour the Writer Programme https://painesplough.com/get-involved/tour-the-writer/

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Week Eight: Self-censorship in the arts, and editing.

Season 1 · Episode 8

Friday, June 23, 2023 • Duration 26:23

Episode 8: Self-censorship in the arts, and editing.

This week we look at how to edit your work, and discuss how people in the arts might censor themselves.

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Lyn Gardner in The Stage: Bite your tongue: is self-censorship stifling the important conversations? https://www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/opinion/bite-your-tongue-is-self-censorship-stifling-the-important-conversations

New York Times: The Battle of ‘Miss Saigon’: Yellowface, Art and Opportunity https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/theater/the-battle-of-miss-saigon-yellowface-art-and-opportunity.html

American Theatre: I Am Miss Saigon, And I Hate it. https://www.americantheatre.org/2017/04/13/i-am-miss-saigon-and-i-hate-it/

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Week Four: Form and Dialectic

Season 1 · Episode 4

Friday, May 19, 2023 • Duration 25:30

This week: form and dialectic! What is form and structure? How can we play with it and what's out there?

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Theatre Spaces: https://www.theatrestrust.org.uk/discover-theatres/theatre-faqs/170-what-are-the-types-of-theatre-stages-and-auditoria

Open/ Closed time and space in scriptwriting - from Playwriting: Structure, Character, How and What to Write by Stephen Jeffreys https://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/playwriting

Oxford Playwriting https://www.oxfordplaywriting.co.uk/

Oxfordshire Theatre Makers https://www.oxfordshiretheatremakers.com/

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