WorkShop: Making Work from Research
in connection with What Remains of UsWant to know more about creating theatre based on research and real-life experiences? Come and work with the creative team from Korea-UK collaboration What Remains of Us – a show based on the extraordinary real-life temporary reunions of divided families across North and South Korea.
Through using the documentary sources, interviews, images and newsreel footage that inspired the show itself, across two hours you’ll create your own personal response to the materials, exploring practical techniques for expressing research through theatrical storytelling.
Led by: David Lane
The session will be facilitated by David Lane, a playwright and dramaturg and former Associate Lecturer at Bristol University. He has written over twenty plays and two audio plays including work for Half Moon, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Chichester Festival Theatre, Forest Forge, Cheltenham Everyman, Blue Brook Productions/Tobacco Factory Theatres, Beaford and Travelling Light, and commissions for Papatango and the Minack. He has undertaken international collaborations with the British School of Beijing and Korea National University of Arts, been a Writer-in-Residence at Bristol Old Vic, the Theatre Collection at Bristol University and Leverhulme Scholar practitioner at the egg Theatre Royal Bath. As dramaturg he has worked with award-winning companies including Fine Chisel, Dirty Market, Scratchworks and PECO, contributed to writer development programmes at Soho Theatre, New Writing South, Ustinov and Hull Truck, designed and delivered modules for UG/PG study at numerous universities and is an Associate Lecturer on Goldsmiths College’s MA Writing for Performance. He is the author of Contemporary British Drama (EUP, 2010).
