This class will give you opportunities to develop your skill as a storyteller and playwright.

Aristotle believed that we tell stories in order to make sense. I believe that it is important to notice the manufacturing metaphor involved in “making” sense. In this course we will tell each other stories. We will practice making sense. And when we are done, we each will have written a new play.

Participants who complete the course will:

• Explore how plots and themes dance together in a play.
• Grow in their ability to craft characters who relate to each other onstage in believable (and unbelievable) ways.
• Gain facility in shaping voice and dialog among those characters.
• Grow in their ability to format a script.
• Create a ten-minute play

Who: Anyone Ages 14+

Cost: $30/student

When:

• May 9 – June 20, 2025
• Friday nights
• 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Where: TPP Office – 315 N Phillips Ave

What to bring:

A journal of some sort and writing utensils, as we will be writing in real time for a portion of each session. The journal can be paper-based (that’s where I start my writing projects). It can also be electronic, if that suits a participant best, though I think the multisensory experience of writing on paper and the corresponding need to subsequently create a digital version of anything written on paper both help the writing and editing processes.