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A Class in Dynamic Dialogue (16 online sessions/two classes per week)
In this class we will discover how I hate you means I love you, how no narrator is ever trustworthy, and how characters can never under any circumstance say what they mean or mean what they say unless you earn it.
We will uncover why 2 is boring,
1 + 1 = X is a little better,
BUT
X3 4 = 2 is best of all.
This is an 8 week, ONLINE COURSE consisting of 2 classes per week (Mondays and Thursdays) and will mainly focus on writing for stage but will dabble in other genres as well. All that is required for each student is a Gmail account and a modest reading list. You will read the work of masters in dialogue of various styles, write and hone your skills through a variety of exercises and assignments, plus use what you have learned to give feedback on fellow writers work. It is easy to say writing is boring, but hard to figure out why and how to fix it. In this course I will make it a point to teach you how to write second level language (also known as subtext), or beat you with hammers if you dont- because if I dont, an audience will do it later. And finally, this class will teach you how to, in the words of Distinguished Professor and Playwright Charles Smith of Chicagos Victory Gardens and The Goodman Theatre add pong to your dialogue.
About the Instructor:
Rebecca Abaffy is a freelance writer and instructor. Her writing has been developed and read in a variety of places, such as Napier, New Zealand; Las Cruces, New Mexico; Athens, Ohio; Montreal, Quebec; Kagoshima, Japan; Manhattan, New York; and elsewhere. In 2016 she was the story editor for a documentary called, The Way, a dialogue editor for Charles Smiths Objects in the Mirror (due for production at the Goodman Theatre in spring of 2017), and a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Awards. Abaffy came back to the USA from the southern hemisphere in 2015 with a draft of her first short novel, He Who Hunts Sharks, based on the life of a Brazilian sea captain she crewed for between New Zealand and Fiji in 2014. In 2014 she also produced her play, Bitch Magic, at the Cabana Theatre in Napier, New Zealand...almost. Why is financial backing such a beast? At least she got a reading. In 2013 she really did produce her thesis play, The Syllogism of a Golden Hippo, at Ohio University. In 2012, Wet Foot Dry Foot, received a reading in Montreal, Quebec and a staged reading as an adjudicated play through the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and at the Seabury Quinn Jr. Playwrights' Festival in Athens, Ohio. In 2011, Bitch Magic, received readings in Manhattan, New York by New Voices from the Old Vic Theater Company and at the Seabury Quinn Jr. Playwrights' Festival. Abaffy has taught playwriting, theatre history, production, acting, even English at varying levels from workshops to university classes and childrens theatre in the United States, New Zealand, and Japan.
*Once you register for the class by paying via the PayPal the instructor will contact you will further class instructions.
Mondays and Thursdays, January 9-March 2
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keepstpetelit@gmail.com
St. Petersburg, FL 33733
United States
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