January 14th 2025 @ 19:00 - April 8th 2025 @ 21:30
Free – £375.00The writer’s job, Nabokov supposedly wrote, is to put a character up a tree and once they are up there, throw rocks.
New for 2025, our Introduction to Stories course builds on your longform skills and enables you to link scenes together to tell the story of a specific set of characters. Over twelve weeks, you will learn to create people the audience likes and then put them through heaven and hell, just to see what they will do.
Inspired by the work of the Hideout Theatre in Austin TX, this course will also examine how genres can guide the direction of a show, helping the players make informed, enthusiastic choices, guided by inspiration, not obligation.
This course does not treat storytelling as a mystery, but simply as a way to connect and inspire great scenes. It does not teach a formula, but a state of mind. An atmosphere of curiosity and mischief in which stories naturally arise.
5 skills you’ll learn on our Narrative 1 course:
- Building rich, textured worlds
- Creating protagonists we fall in love with and side characters to laugh at
- Maintaining variety and interest within a story
- Genre and the story spine
- Moving stories forward
Note: Improvising stories is hard. Doing it too early can bring back all kinds of bad habits. This is why we recommend that you have done our level 4 course (The Harold) or equivalent before taking this course. Please get in touch if you want to discuss if this course is the right choice for you.
Narrative 1 runs for 12 weeks, with a 1-week break after the sixth week. The course runs from 14th January – 8th April with your end-of-term showing in week 12.
Narrative 1 is a 12-week course – Payment Options:
- You are signing up for a 12-week course. If needed you can spread the payments by using PayPal and selecting Pay Later or Pay-in-3 at checkout.
- If you don’t use PayPal and would like to spread the payment for the course, just pop us an email and we will set up an invoice schedule
- Two Scholarship tickets & unlimited Concessions tickets are available on every course, no proof is required, see our Course Policies for full info.
