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Wednesdays, 17 June – 2 Sept · 6.30–9.00pm · Online via Zoom
A twelve-week course for anyone with a play they've been meaning to write — adapted from a course I taught for third-year students completing their final projects at university.
We start where most plays start: a hunch, a fragment, a character that won't leave you alone. The early weeks are about turning that into something workable — testing what the play is actually about, who it belongs to, and what wants to happen. From there we move into structure and storyline, then into the long middle stretch of character and dialogue, where most of the real writing gets done. By the final weeks you'll be drafting toward a complete first version, with detailed written feedback from me at the end of the course.
Each week also includes a close reading of a published play. Most people who want to write a play don't read them, and this course aims to change that — not as homework, but as a foundation. Reading plays exposes you to range and possibility: the variety of styles a stage can hold, what language is capable of when it isn't trying to behave like prose, and the strange and magical things a playing space can do that no other form can. You start to understand how much room there actually is, and how much of what you thought were the rules are just one writer's choices. Group discussion and feedback runs alongside individual feedback from me as the work develops.
All levels, including screenwriters working on a story or treatment, are welcome.
€360/€340 (concession).
If you are a student/unemployed email sarahotoole@pm.me with a student card/proof of unemployment and we’ll send you the discount code.
Booking & Cancellations
Full payment secures your place. Cancellations more than 14 days before the course start date receive a full refund less a €15 administration fee. Between 14 and 7 days: 50% refund. Within 7 days of the start date or once the course has begun: no refund.
By purchasing a place on this course, you agree that these terms apply in place of the standard 14-day statutory cancellation right under the EU Consumer Rights Directive, on the basis that the course begins on a fixed date.
Full terms are available [here]
Wednesdays, 17 June – 2 Sept · 6.30–9.00pm · Online via Zoom
A twelve-week course for anyone with a play they've been meaning to write — adapted from a course I taught for third-year students completing their final projects at university.
We start where most plays start: a hunch, a fragment, a character that won't leave you alone. The early weeks are about turning that into something workable — testing what the play is actually about, who it belongs to, and what wants to happen. From there we move into structure and storyline, then into the long middle stretch of character and dialogue, where most of the real writing gets done. By the final weeks you'll be drafting toward a complete first version, with detailed written feedback from me at the end of the course.
Each week also includes a close reading of a published play. Most people who want to write a play don't read them, and this course aims to change that — not as homework, but as a foundation. Reading plays exposes you to range and possibility: the variety of styles a stage can hold, what language is capable of when it isn't trying to behave like prose, and the strange and magical things a playing space can do that no other form can. You start to understand how much room there actually is, and how much of what you thought were the rules are just one writer's choices. Group discussion and feedback runs alongside individual feedback from me as the work develops.
All levels, including screenwriters working on a story or treatment, are welcome.
€360/€340 (concession).
If you are a student/unemployed email sarahotoole@pm.me with a student card/proof of unemployment and we’ll send you the discount code.
Booking & Cancellations
Full payment secures your place. Cancellations more than 14 days before the course start date receive a full refund less a €15 administration fee. Between 14 and 7 days: 50% refund. Within 7 days of the start date or once the course has begun: no refund.
By purchasing a place on this course, you agree that these terms apply in place of the standard 14-day statutory cancellation right under the EU Consumer Rights Directive, on the basis that the course begins on a fixed date.
Full terms are available [here]