The process of

working with a writer PHIL ALEXANDER

in the room, some
practical examples.
The writer’s
role: Why is a
writer
important?
The writer’s duty is to jot down a vast mixture of ideas to come up with a
plot for the play.
The writers job is to also create a script for actors who can devise a few
scenes which can be critiqued by a professional company.
The writer also gives the actors a few pieces to play around with – to mould
into whatever circumstances that suits them and suits the moral of the story.
The writer will give them feedback to try again with a different feeling or
background.
 She specialises in collaboration and she has the
input of her team to come up with these ideas in
workshops. 
She makes her own development on Peter Pan.
She wanted to put her own twist on it so she
looked into the writing and the story from the
original script.  

Sally Cookson; She's made the decision to cast Captain Hook as

a woman so Hook could also play Mrs Darling
Peter Pan to keep the "mother figure theme" through the
play. This is a big risk because people would
find it controversial and would get people
talking. 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/
2016/nov/19/captain-hook-peter-pan-sally-
cookson-national-theatre
Anthony Neilson; The Tell
Tale Heart

Neilson used workshops to rehearse the play.

[Decides that the murderer and victim would both be played by women but the original
characters were men. Men have different views to women, if the murderer was a man it might be
more obvious as it's usually a man. Women can have a killer instinct too.

Workshop style rehearsals are used a lot when the writer is collaborating with the actors. This is
good because a writer can create their own plot for the character whilst the actors are doing
things on stage. You can read it and play with it and put it into your own physical performance.
Then you can try and find ways to tweak things to end up with a successful piece of work. 

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/dec/13/the-tell-tale-heart-review-poe-dorfman-
anthony-neilson
How we’re doing it!

• The writer is the catalyst for what we're doing in our

FMP. Tom asked us to research the Brontës so we can
understand them better, just like Sally Cookson did with
JM Barrie. 
We’re working together with our practitioner and writer to
recreate our own version of Glass Town with creating own
story and characters.
We have also researched about the Brontës and what their
family did stand for, using that research to develop our own
style to create a advanced story.

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