THIS IS THE THING… : RESIDENTIAL

THIS IS THE THING... : RESIDENTIAL

Date/Time
Date(s) - Sun 7th Jul - Fri 12th Jul, 2024
All Day

Location
Moniack Mhor, Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire , IV4 7HT


A Creativity and Care Residential

Are you care experienced and aged 14-30? Interested in theatre, drama and writing for performance?

Join us for FREE at Moniack Mhor this Summer for an exciting project exploring the craft of playwriting! You’ll be tutored during the week by Chris Thorpe and Tanuja Amarasuriya:

In this writing residential, we’re going to work towards a goal… we’re going to explore the stories we might want to tell, and the way we might want to tell them, the world we’re in, and how we might want it to be different. Every day we’re going to create some new writing, individually and as a group, and discuss what we want to achieve when that work meets the audience. We’re coming with no assumptions, except that we’re going to have a great time finding out what we want to say.
Chris and Tanuja will take responsibility for the process, providing suggestions, exciting tasks, discussion and perspective: “We’ll shape what you produce into something that starts to look like a show, leaving you free to explore ideas and collaborate without any worries about where we’re headed.”
Following the July residential week, you have the option to come back together online to keep building on the work you have created with Chris and Tanuja.
Then in October this year, you might choose to return to Moniack Mhor for an optional sharing of work alongside our songwriting and poetry participants, who are part of the wider Creativity and Care Residencies programme!

Please e-mail any enquiries to Edel and Vicky at:

Or you can call the Creativity and Care team on: 01463 592 828

 THIS PROJECT INCLUDES: 

WRITE

  • Sunday 7th – Friday 12th July: Writing and exploration week at Moniack Mhor with Chris Thorpe and Tanuja Amarasuriya. You will arrive on Sunday 7th and depart the morning of Friday 12th. This will include individual writing time, group workshops and optional one-to-one tutorials.

DEVELOP

  • Between July-October: Join Chris and fellow participants online for optional one-to-one and group script development time.

SHARE

  • October (dates TBC): You may choose to come back to Moniack Mhor for a sharing of work.
  • All food, accommodation and workshops are provided!

WHAT DO I NEED TO DO?: 

  • Have a keen interest in theatre/writing for performance, but not necessarily have previous experience. 
  • Fill in a simple form (below), or chat to our team about why you want to do the course.
  • Give us a few key details so that we can support you through your playwriting journey. 
  • Places are secured on a first come, first served basis. If you are interested in participating but there are no places left, please get in touch and we will add you to our waiting list!

We hope to see you there! 

MEET THE TUTORS

Chris' headshot. Chris is a white man with a short, dark beard and short hair. He is wearing a black round-neck top and is standing, looking straight ahead, in front of a beige background. His professional biography is adjacent.CHRIS THORPE is a writer and performer from Manchester.

Some of the things he has made shows about include: dealing with our mistakes (The Oh F**k Moment), living with chronic pain (The Shape of the Pain), Iranian pop music (Things Hidden) and nuclear disarmament (A Family Business).

He has worked with, among others, poets, musicians, actors, scientists, sheep farmers, paramedics, addicts, diplomats, care-experienced people, politicians and people who build fishing trawlers. He tries to make his stuff a conversation with the audience about how they think. And hopefully, sometimes even funny.

 

Tanuja's headshot. Tanuja is a black woman with short black hair. She is wearing a black round-neck top, looking straight ahead in front of a white, shadowed background. Her professional biography is adjacent.TANUJA AMARASURIYA is a director, dramaturg and sound artist working in theatre and related forms. As director, her work has been presented by, amongst others: the National Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange, Brighton Festival (THE BULLET AND THE BASS TROMBONE), Bristol Old Vic (DARK LAND LIGHT HOUSE), Theatre503 (OUT OF SORTS), Soho Theatre (THE PAPER MAN), and Sura Medura in Sri Lanka (OCEAN CONFESSIONS); and she is an Associate Director to Dominic Cooke.

As a writer or dramaturg, she has worked across different art forms including site-specific performance, VR, live art and video games, working with artists and companies including Luca Rutherford, Raucous, Kaleider and Die Gute Fabrik.

She is co-founder of Sleepdogs, a multi-artform collaboration with writer/composer Tim X Atack, making work ranging from sci-fi theatre to electro-pop albums made entirely from field recordings. She has twice been shortlisted for the RTST Sir Peter Hall Directors Award and is a resident at Watershed’s Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol. More info at: http://sleepdogs.org/about/tanuja-amarasuriya/

ENQUIRIES OPEN BELOW!

The Life Changes Trust was established by The National Lottery Community Fund in April 2013 with a ten year endowment of £50 million to support transformational improvement in the quality of life, well-being, empowerment and inclusion of three key groups in Scotland: people living with dementia, unpaid carers of those with dementia and young people with care experience. The Trust concluded their ten year tenure in March 2022.  Moniack Mhor is a formal legacy partner of the Life Changes Trust.


Bookings

This course is now fully booked. Please contact us on info@moniackmhor.org.uk or 01463 741 675 to be added to the waiting list.


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