RABBLE Masterclass: Writing Historial Plays with Beth Flintoff
Professional workshops with leading industry specialists
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RABBLE Theatre's Masterclasses are professional workshops with leading industry specialists covering a wide variety of skills, on and off stage.
Writing Historial Plays with Beth Flintoff will be a friendly writing workshop to explore some of the practicalities of getting started, finding your characters, and trying not to get lost in the library.
The workshop will ask but is not limited to the following questions...
How do you write a historical play?
Why would you?
What can the past tell us about today, and how do you sift through the research to find your own unique perspective on the story you want to tell?
Suitable for anyone from beginners to those who already have a tale to tell.
About Beth Flintoff
Beth Flintoff is a playwright, theatre director, teacher, community theatre maker and RABBLE Theatre’s Associate Writer. Her plays have won numerous awards and she has written all of RABBLE’s historical plays, including Oscar Wilde on Trial, Henry I, Matilda the Empress, Henry II and The Last Abbot of Reading.
Beth’s other credits include New Diorama, Paines Plough, The Watermill and Eastern Angles (with whom her play The Ballad of Maria Marten is currently touring nationally and was published).
