WRITERS’ ROOM WORKSHOP: READINGS & CRITIQUES OF SCRIPTS

WRITERS’ ROOM WORKSHOP: READINGS & CRITIQUES OF SCRIPTS

An online Play Cafe workshop with writer-producer Rick Toscan, August 18, 12:30PM – 2:30PM Pacific Time (8:30PM-10:30PM BST/London)

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

Play Cafe’s Writers’ Room Workshop offers you the chance to hear and develop the first three pages of your script in a reading by professional performers. With contemporary streaming audiences bailing out of shows that fail to grab them in the first few minutes and professional script readers making decisions to pass or continue reading after only a few pages, we know those opening pages are critical for engaging audiences and decision makers. And we nearly always see editing issues undermining those first pages repeated throughout a script. Rick will compare your submitted script to a draft incorporating his suggested edits. The revised draft will then be read by our performers. Critiques of these opening pages will offer a practical guide for…