Artist Workshop Series: Playwriting

The infinite monkey theorem states that a primate hitting keys at random on a keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type the complete works of Shakespeare. You probably don’t have an infinite amount of time. And you’re probably not a monkey.

Probably.

As part of the company’s new Artist Workshop series, Theatre Pro Rata is pleased to announce Playwrights in the Mist with Philadelphia playwright and Traveling Light author, Lindsay Harris-Friel*.

For budding playwrights wishing to hit the ground running, this is a down-and-dirty, participation-intensive workshop with a produced playwright. Come spend the evening writing, reading-out, and sharpening your creative teeth. Lindsay will lead you through the character/structure/conflict jungle and show you strange and wonderful secrets like resources for writers, how to get your play produced and how NOT to submit your work. But we know you’re coming for the adventure, so brandish those pencils and get ready you saucy simians, because you’re going to work, and you’re going to like it.

Here’s what you need to know:

Monday, July 12th
7:00 - 9:00 P.M.

Common Roots Café
2558 South Lyndale Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55405

Call 612.874.9321 for reservations
$14 - $41, sliding scale

Please bring something papery to write on. Leave the laptop at home!

Don’t forget to come over to the Layman’s Cemetery to experience Lindsay’s dynamic script during Theatre Pro Rata’s production of Traveling Light, July 9 – 28, 2010!

*Playwright Lindsay Harris has studied with Edward Albee, Dr. David Crespy, Will Eno, Arthur Kopit, Rommulus Linney, Doug Wright, and Michelle Volansky. She has performed dramaturgy for Walking Fish Theatre Company and served as a script reader for The McCarter Theatre Center, The Wilma Theater, and The Brick Playhouse, for whom she ran a weekly playwrights' workshop. Her work in all aspects of theatre production informs her playwriting and now she's here to share it with and learn from you.