[e-drive] [WORKSHOP: VANCOUVER]

[Patricia Joyce]

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WRITERS WORKSHOP - VANCOUVER
WITH EUGENE STICKLAND

WHO- Calgary playwrite - Eugene Stickland
WHAT- Four Day intensive workshop
WHERE- VANCOUVER
WHEN- November 8-11
HOW (AS IN HOW MUCH!)- $250.00

THE WORKSHOP is an opportunity for writers to gain insight into the
craft and structure of playwriting. The daily sessions would include a
mixture of lectures, writing and exercises focusings on the process and
impulse of writing as well as the idea of character driven plays. There
will also be an informal question and answer session on the Friday night

and have an open "play reading" on the last night.


Space is limited to 12 people however there are still a few spaces
available.

For more information contact:
Naomi Snieckus
nsnieckus at telus.net
(604) 874-2544

EUGENE STICKLAND began writing plays following the completion of his MFA

at York University in 1984. Ten years later, at Alberta Theatre Projects

playRites ‘94, his play Some Assembly Required received its premier
production. Since then, the play has had some 20 productions around
Canada and in the US. It was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award

in drama in 1995. During his tenure as Playwright in Residence at ATP,
Eugene went on to write Sitting on Paradise (1996), A Guide to Mourning
(1998) and Appetite (2000) – all of which premiered at ATP’s playRites
Festival.  At the 1998 Betty Mitchell Awards, A Guide to Mourning was
given four awards, including Best New Play and Outstanding Production of

a Play for the 1997-98 Season. Also in 1998, Eugene participated in the
céad (centre des authors dramatique) translation residency in Tadoussac,

Quebec, where Some Assembly Required was translated into French by
playwright René Gingras. The product of this process, Noël de force,
received its premier production by Compaigne Jean Duceppe at Place des
Arts in Montreal in 1999. Eugene lives in Calgary with his wife, Carrie
and daughter Hanna. He is the playwright in Residence at Alberta Theatre

Projects. His new play, Midlife, will be presented at PanCanadian
playRites ‘02, opening in late January of next year.

NOTE!
This is an amazing opportunity for the Vancouver Theatre community to be
inspired by one of the most interesting and talented playwrights in
Canada...don't pass it up!