Meeting Times and Venues

Weeks 1 – 8/9: Thursday, 2-5, & Friday, 10-1,
Cornwallis Seminar Room
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Weeks 9/10 - 16:
Thursday, 2-5, Giles Lane Seminar Room 4
Friday, 10-1, Eliot Seminar Room 2

"Theatre Talks":
Tuesday 1-2 & Thursday 1-2, Darwin Lecture Theatre 1, on the dates indicated in the schedule below.

Schedule:
This schedule is updated frequently, so please check back regularly!
  

Week


Thursday  

Friday

1

Tuesday 25th September, 1-2, DLT 1: Start of Year meeting Introduction: Contracts & Law Contracts: Application

Submission Deadline I: 1,500 words on venue analysis plus 2 production assessments

2

Tuesday 2nd October, 1-2, DLT 1: "Theatre Talks: Patrice as Research - Prof. Paul Allain

Saturday 6th October: Producing Students – Drama Open Day (9-3)
Contracts & IP Venue Programming

3pm: Dramaturgy Meeting (for Dramaturgy students only) at Producers Office

3


 

1 pm: Theatre Talks, DLT1: Dee Ashworth, Gulbenkian Theatre: Programming a Venue

2 pm: Venue Programming: Artistic Policies

Venue Programming & Artistic Policies

4

Tuesday 1 pm, DLT1: 'Theatre Talks: Accidental Collective' 1 pm, Templeman Library, Room TR201: Library Session for M-Level Students

2 pm: Employment
Employment & Marketing

5

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1 pm, Templeman Library, Room TR201: Library Session for M-Level Students

Marketing & Demographics

7.45 pm: POSTSHOW DISCUSSION*: 'Third Angel: Presumption'
(Natasha & Lindsey)

Production Dramaturgy

6

Tuesday 1 pm, DLT1: 'Theatre Talks: Production Teamwork, Sian Stevenson'

1 pm, DLT1: Theatre Talks: Robert Miles, The Brewhouse, Taunton


2pm Session with Robert Miles

Session with Robert Miles

7


 
1pm: Theatre Talks: Documenting Your Work, Paul Davies


2 pm: Production Dramaturgy: Education & Outreach

Education & Outreach

Submission Deadline II: Case Studies on Law & Contracts

8

Tuesday 13 November, 1pm, DLT1: Theatre Talks: Box Clever - Theatre for Young Audiences

Please see their show at the Gulbenkian that evening:

Tue 13 Nov,
7.45 pm: POSTSHOW DISCUSSION*: Box Clever, 'Dirty Kissing'
(Natalie & Vicky)

 


 


2.30 Session with Angela Edwards (Kenwright Ltd)

 

Casting: Session with Robert Miles (CNW Sem 6)

9

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1 pm, DLT1: Theatre Talks: Audience Development and Funding: Katie Mitchell, Donmar Warehouse


2.30 Production Dramaturgy I: New Play Development (GLS Sem 4)

Marketing: Final Session for CPD (DOB), together with Producers (CNW Sem 6)

10

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1 pm, DLT 1: 'Theatre Talks: Paines Plough

2.30 Session with Paines Plough         

New Play Development

11

.Monday 3rd December, 7.45 pm: POSTSHOW DISCUSSION*: 'Compass Theatre Company: Pinter & A Pair of Chekhov's Shorts'
(Kirsten & Caroline)
1 pm, DLT1: 'Theatre Talks': Touring Theatre: Angela Edwards, Bill Kenwright Ltd.


Session with Paines Plough
Dramaturgy: Contexts & Perspectives
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Production Dramaturgy

Open Session for Stage 3 Dramaturgs from 11.30

12

. 1 pm, DLT1: "Theatre Talks: Lynne Gagliano, Gate Theatre, London: The Gate, Dramaturgy and Education

Production Dramaturgy  - Project I: 'I am falling'

Production Dramaturgy

Submission III: Group Project (Documentation)

13

Thursday 17th January: Group Projection: Panel Pitch, from 2pm, Producers & Dramaturgs Office

Friday 18th January: All Day Workshop at The Gate Theatre, 11 Pembridge Road (above the Prince Albert pub), Notting Hill, incl. performance of  ' I am falling' and post-performance talk.

The workshop starts at 2 pm sharp, so please be there a bit earlier. Performance from 7.30, 45-50 mins, then post-show talk.

http://www.gatetheatre.co.uk/visit-us.aspx

14

.    1 pm, DLT1: "Theatre Talks: Charlotte Knight, Rod Hall Agency London, on Literary Agents

from 2.30: Workshop session with Charlotte Knight

Production Dramaturgy: Creating Programme Booklets and Educational Material

Please bring any particularly good or bad programme booklets to the session

15

.    Production Dramaturgy: Creating Programme Booklets and Educational Material 'Mise-en-Scène: Staging the Classics' - Seminar with Professor Patrice Pavis .

16

. Workshop on Pericles with Russell Bolam (RSC)


Workshop on Pericles with Russell Bolam (RSC)

Please note that this workshop today (Friday 8 February) will take place at the Drama Rehearsal Studio (PGCR)!

Submission Deadline: Production Study

 

From Week 16

Work on Research Project and Individual Project; you will receive individual supervision sessions during this time


SPRING TERM POSTSHOW DISCUSSIONS AT THE GULBENKIAN:

Wed 20 Feb 7.45pm

Mem Morrison

Leftovers
 
(Vicky)
 

Mon 25 Feb 7.45pm

Tangled Feet

Game?

(Natasha)

 

Tue 11 Mar 7.45pm

Horse + Bamboo Theatre

Veil

(Safi & Clare)

 

 

* The Post-Show Discussion Events will be led by the Theatre Dramaturgy students

 


Groups and Projects

  • Production: a 'static' produced for a certain venue. Minimum requirement: a run of three weeks, or 25 performances. This includes the planning of the performance, a dramaturgic concept and corresponding design/directr/etc brief, full budget, marketing strategy etc. 
    • Marianne Brown, Jenny Lawrence, Natasha Soliman, Lindsey Shaw
  • Venue: Program the Spring 2008 season for a venue (a three month programme of received work, incl. artistic policy of the venue and budgeting of the season)
    • Kirsten Adam, Claire McNamara, Claire Hughes, Rachel Savage
  • Touring: minimum requirement: eight venues (incl. development of production; venue list, budget, briefs, marketing plan to venues and audiences...)
    • Frankie Bridges, Susie Evans, Hannah Marnes, Caroline Sutcliffe
  • Festival/Event: over more than one day, in a non-theatre space, or including a non-theatre space [not necessarily outdoor] (production or programme of events, with full planning details as for the above briefs)
    • Rebecca Gardiner, Rosie Mortimer, Nathalie Clarke, Vicky Wilsher
  • Applied Theatre Company: product/project, fundraising strategy, marketing material etc as above
    • Emma Norton, Katherine Gardner, Safi McCallum, Martha Bevan