WORKSHOP TICKET £35 Carrying Stories Across a Threshold

Author Sally Bayley and Animator Suzie Hanna will teach you to use a uniquely designed method for development of plot and storyline for creating an original micro drama. They will show you how to arrange your story around a threshold space in order to produce a moment of dramatic change; this process will enable you to create a rapidly compressed plot summary. The aim is to enable your story to arrive through one dramatic moment carried across a threshold.

They will lead you through a series of exercises using methods related to touch and texture using simple folded shapes and templates. These will help you to begin to arrange relationships between character and object; character and place; character and time and encounters between characters as you build a set of emotional pressure points or tensions. Your physical paper world will allow you to conceal and reveal narrative elements in a flexible moveable format, encouraging a non-linear approach to the creative process. The workshop also includes consideration of sonic elements to further define the world that you have created.

Participants will select from a choice of prompts to build their own micro plot. The workshop will be framed by some miniature performance pieces as Sally explores words, colours, shapes, rhythms and sounds drawn from her own writing.

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