37 Plays

This year, the RSC is launching a national playwrighting project called 37 Plays. In collaboration with their Associate Regional Theatres (of which the Hall for Cornwall is one), 37 Plays is a call to get the nation writing in order to create an ambitious volume of contemporary dramatic works which respond to the world in which we live. The invitation to write a play will open for submissions in January 2023 with the final collection of 37 plays being shared in 2023 to mark the First Folio anniversary.

As part of the RSC’s search for 37 State of the Nation plays (https://37plays.co.uk/), the Hall for Cornwall and The Writers’ Block are running a series of workshops led by some of Cornwall’s finest playwrights and theatre makers to support emerging writers or anyone interested in submitting a play. All the workshops will take place from August to December 2022 at the Pydar Pop Up in Truro and the Liskerrett Centre in Liskeard.

The Workshops are FREE but booking is essential.

Finding the Framework with Simon Harvey

The idea of sitting down to write ‘a play’ can be an overwhelming. Look at how to collate and order ideas, themes, images and restrictions to develop a framework around which to layer and build into a play.

Liskerrett Centre: 11 November 10am – 4pm

Other upcoming 37 Plays workshops at Liskerrett:

• Sense of Place with Callum Mitchell – 8 October, 10am – 4pm
• Turning Ideas into Text with Jenni Fletcher – 19 October, 10am – 4pm
• Writing for Large Casts with Jon Welch – 19 November, 10am – 4pm

For a full list of all the workshops throughout Cornwall see the Hall for Cornwall website