Raucous is an ever-evolving collective of theatre makers, technologists and designers who investigate how theatre can be made more immediate, urgent and immersive for an audience.

Raucous’ work is shaped by its exploration with collaborators and we are frequently invited to share our methods with fellow creatives. The Exchanges sessions have been created in response to the demand from writers and theatremakers wanting to explore and experiment with new tools and technology. They have been designed to be delivered with industry professionals, surveying how storytelling worlds might evolve when new tools are used to build narrative, evoking a more heightened and immediate experience for an audience.

These workshops are for those writers/theatremakers who are curious as to how their narratives might shift or expand when they work with a range of diverse disciplines.

The sessions are part workshop, part masterclass and will enable you to consider your own practice/writing whilst engaging with international collaborators to openly share skills, challenges and knowledge.

Each session will last two and a quarter hours and will be held digitally through Zoom. The sessions will be divided into creative practice explorations and case study sharings, with participation through tasks and discussion.

The Zoom link and further instructions will be sent via email after booking.

Causing a Scene - Raucous Exchanges Session 4

Theatre scriptwriting masterclass and workshop with award-winning playwright Sharon Clark.

What do we need to consider when threading scenes together to make a narrative whole? What are the challenges? How do we make decisions about which scenes in the script are urgent, and what is their role in propelling the story forward?

A mixture of masterclass and workshop, this session will explore how scenes are the foundations of script, how they inform dynamic structure and how they can accelerate tension, pace and impact.

About Sharon Clark

Sharon is a playwright, academic and Creative Director of Raucous. Her plays have been shortlisted for the PapaTango Prize and the Yale Drama Prize and her play, Plow, won a Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. For eight years she was Literary Producer at Bristol Old Vic. Sharon is a Senior Lecturer at University of the West of England(UWE).

This event is non-refundable.