Archive for the 'Workshops' Category

Third Workshop Session

Tonight, we looked at the structure of plays, about how to begin them and make them move, how to use structure to keep the audience’s attention.

Well, Nico didn’t travel after all

The Wednesday workshops have been moved from the Ground Floor Conference Room to the Second Floor Conference Room, because the Ground Floor Conference Room plays host to Junkanoo.

Workshops cancelled this week

This evening’s workshop was cancelled owing to bad weather and long work days. Because Nico will be away on Wednesday, we’ll put the workshop back a week.

Workshops this week

The workshops will continue on Monday, August 22, but on Wednesday, the evening will have to be filled by homework. The Bahamas has been invited to participate in a presentation panel at an OAS meeting of Ministers and Highest Authorities on Culture, and Nico is slated to travel to that meeting. Course, if people want [...]

Second Workshop Session

The workshop continues small and enthusiastic, and it’s going well. Applied conflict and character discussion to The Children’s Teeth tonight. Talked about how characters are built, and played with different exercises and options. The workshops continue next week, Monday and Wednesday at 6:30, Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture.

First Workshop Session

The first workshop session took place tonight. The turnout was small but enthusiastic.

Synopsis & Excerpt–The Children’s Teeth

August, 2002, Nassau, Bahamas, the beginning of lobster season. A ghost, a prodigal daughter and her ex-lover clash fatally over a family house.

Location and Time of the Workshops

The location and time of the Playwriting Workshops have been set. The workshops will run Mondays and Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. August 15-31, with an option to extend into the first week in September. They will take place in the ground floor conference room of the Ministry of Education Building, Thompson Blvd. Look forward to [...]

Ringplay/IDB Workshops

So the Ringplay/IDB Workshops proto-began last night with a reading of The Children’s Teeth, a new play by Nicolette Bethel.

Ringplay Secures IDB Grant

In June of this year, Ringplay was awarded one of a number of grants given by the Inter-American Development Bank for cultural projects