About the Project

What makes playwriting at Warwick University unique and how could it be developed further?

The basic idea of this project is to identify, formulate, and further develop the distinct and innovative creative and pedagogical features of new writing in the School of Theatre and Performance Studies and to explore if these practices could be developed further into a unique Warwick brand.

We are interested in multidimensional aspects of writing for theatre and performance. We explore how the material for a play, as well as solutions for solving structural or other issues in the writing process could come from a variety of places and disciplines (literature, poetry, visual arts, music, history, science, mathematics, daily news, modern media, everyday life, etc.) We examine transferable aspects of playwriting and other forms of creative writing, asking: How could dramaturgical techniques aid structuring of a novel? How can dramatic dialogue and rhythm be explored through techniques of poetry writing? How can we understand different dramaturgical structures through mathematical concepts?

In order to foster links with artists and theatre communities and involve different perspectives and approaches to new writing, this project aims to include a variety of voices from high-profile playwrights and other theatre practitioners to new writers, who have just been emerging from our university.