Join established stage and literary agent Alan Brodie, whose clients include the estates of writers including Bertolt Brecht, Noël Coward, Terence Rattigan, Patrick Hamilton and Thornton Wilder, to demystify the world of theatrical estates and rights.

Aimed at mid-career directors, this mid-career masterclass will explore how you might approach an estate, theatre or licensor, what makes an artistic proposal compelling, how decisions around rights are made and where the boundaries of artistic freedom lie. The session will discuss the relationship between protecting a writer's legacy and giving the next generation of artists the freedom to make classic work their own.

This session will culminate in a Q&A.

Essential Information:

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Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning writer for both stage and screen. In this two-hour masterclass, he will offer an insight into his writing process and share ways of approaching writing new plays for larger spaces and audiences, without compromising urgent conversations or the desire to tackle provoking themes.

This mid-career masterclass will culminate in a Q&A where Mike will answer questions.

This masterclass is best suited to mid-career playwrights who are confidently working at studio/mid-scale and looking to scale up.

Essential Information:

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Led by award-winning director and writer Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu (Deep Azure, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy, Pig Heart Boy) and award-winning playwright and dramaturg Somebody Jones (winner of the Tony Craze Award, finalist for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting), this five-day playwriting intensive will help you kick-start and develop your next piece of theatre. 

Using Tristan's own Tell Me A Tale Method — a practical framework for building story from the inside out — you'll develop a bold script set in the Speculative world (fantasy, sci-fi, horror), working across devising, structure, character, dramaturgy and world-building.

Expect hands-on exercises, elements of embodied practice (no performance experience necessary), and a safe, creative space to explore the fantastical and unlock your writing — including through physical work on your feet.

This intensive is for:

What to expect across the week:

What you'll come away with:

Essential information:

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Join playwright and associate artist Carl Grose and Spymonkey founder and co-artistic director Toby Park as they attempt to crack open the mysterious, maddening and utterly marvelous process of how to go about writing a show for Spymonkey.

Who's it for:

  1. Actors, Clowns and performers keen to develop their writing skills
  2. Solo artists and performer-led companies looking to kick start a new project
  3. Directors and dramaturgs who facilitate collaborations between performers and write
  4. Writers interested in devising, adaptation and other collaborative creative processes
  5. Writers interested in Clown and Comedy

Why we think it is important:

Spymonkey worked for many years as a devising company. We took a huge step forwards in our creative process when we began working with a writer, and as it happens the first writer we ever worked with was Carl, for Oedipussy. It was a revelation, and we couldn’t understand why we hadn’t done it sooner! The writer brings so much to our intensely collaborative process: provocations for improvisation exercises, hot-seating, taking on the task of dramaturgical structure, of character arc, sifting and compressing the hours of improvisation, creative meetings with designers and directors and ridiculous conversations over tea breaks. And of course for the actual nuts-and-bolts of script-writing. Since then we’ve worked with a load of writers, but we keep coming back to working with Carl because he is brilliant and he understands Clown and our Theatre of the Funny.

What will be explored:

  1. We’ll open up the bonnet of the Theatre of the Funny creative process, and give you a tour of the workings of our creative engine. We’ll get our hands dirty. There will be cleaning products available!
  2. An exploration of past collaborations (how we took Greek Tragedy and turned It into a Spymonkey Show)
  3. Finding the ideal starting points and the right source material for original shows and adaptations.
  4. Mining humour, physicality and theatricality in your ideas.
  5. Writing exercises to liberate source material.
  6. Key improvising and devising exercises which we’ve developed over the years.
  7. How to listen to improv (what to run with and what to drop).
  8. How to prepare, how to play, how to polish.
  9. And much more besides!

Please note: There will be writing involved, but we also find it essential to explore writing practically and on its feet. All participants will be encourages to join in the work and support the development of others so writers come expecting to get up and play, and performers ready with their pen (or laptop).

Essential Information:

Calling all university students! Spymonkey are offering a 50% discount on this workshop with the promocode SPYMONKEY50 and Name of Uni.

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Frantic Assembly

Learn from leading professionals, create your own work, support your wellbeing and develop your dance, acting and singing skills.

Every weekend DreamArts Creative Labs enable 6-12 year olds to explore and unleash their talents. Our skilled professionals encourage members to devise and perform their own original musicals.

Saturdays

Sundays

To register, please contact angela@dreamarts.org.uk

16-30?

Get a FREE Barclays Dance Pass and unlock £10 tickets to spectacular entertainment across all Sadler’s Wells venues. The catch? There’s no catch – you just need to be between the ages of 16 and 30!

With your Barclays Dance Pass, you can book up to 2 tickets per production for just £10 each! Bring a friend and get ready for a fabulous night out at Sadler’s Wells Theatre and Lilian Baylis Studio in Angel, Peacock Theatre in the West End, or our brand-new Sadler’s Wells East in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford.

Sadler’s Wells is known as THE place for dance. We have something for everyone to enjoy – from ballet, contemporary, flamenco, and musical theatre to alternative circus, hip hop, tango, and everything in between. With some of the world’s best performances taking place on our stages, you can be sure of a dazzling five-star experience without breaking the bank.

Sign up now and start your Barclays Dance Pass adventure today!

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Join our Les Enfants Terribles' creative team for a skill-builder session for theatre makers, producers, designers and writers who want to make Immersive Theatre work.

Half-seminar, half practical workshop, this skill-builder has something for everyone and compliments our Immersive Theatre for Actors workshop for those who both create and perform.

In this workshop you will:

Essential information:

Book into the other workshops to save 20% (£240 for all 3 workshops).

Bursary places are available.

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Join our Les Enfants Terribles' creative team for a skill-builder session for actors who want to perform in Immersive Theatre work.

This workshop is designed to allow you space to learn and explore the skills needed in the immersive rehearsal room.

In this workshop you will:

Essential information:

Book into the other workshops to save 20% (£240 for all 3 workshops).

Bursary places are available.

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START is Lyric Hammersmith Theatre's accredited six-week performance programme for NEET (not in education, employment or training) young people aged 16-25 from West London.

START provides a space for young people to creatively explore the world of performance. Over six weeks, each cohort works with a team of professional theatre artists to create an original piece of theatre in response to the themes of a Lyric Main House production. Through engaging with drama activities, skill sharing, and watching live performances, the START cohort will build on their self-confidence, collaboration skills, emotional resilience, and self-esteem. Through this, the cohort will cultivate a group ethic of inclusivity, accessibility, encouragement, respect, and affirmation. This project is underpinned by a Bronze Arts Award accreditation.

DETAILS:

ELIGIBILITY:

* Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Richmond upon Thames, Wandsworth and Westminster

As of 2026, START has been running for 20 years, engaging hundreds of young people and supporting them further on remarkable journeys.

Of those who participated in the programme between April 2022 – March 2024, 74% were referred onto employment, education or training, 78% cited improved soft skills and renewed motivation to achieve future goals and 67% took part in further Young Lyric activity, and 75% of participants reported a sustained or increased ability to maintain their emotions and wellbeing after completing START.

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