Prolific author Tanika Gupta talks about stagecraft, highlighting the importance of voice and comic idiom in her writing.
Helen Blakeman and Setting
Playwright Helen Blakeman sees setting as integral to a play’s success and highlights the supporting importance of factors such as structure and voice.
Developing the Idea
Playwriting master Alan Ayckbourn reveals how he develops and connects ideas for his plays, and the meticulous process of structuring and ‘building’ a script.
Alan Ayckbourn on Redrafting
Ayckbourn's approach to redrafting and rewriting scripts, and how dramatic ideas and twists emerge.
Alan Ayckbourn as Director
Alan Ayckbourn's work as a director, and how this informs his writing. The economy of playwriting, and the writer’s awareness of the limitations of the stage.