XY: How to Create Gender-blind Theatre
Saturday, 7th June
Inspired by their acclaimed short play festival XY, Papercut Theatre’s Artistic Director, Melissa Dunne, will lead a short workshop on how you can create gender-blind characters and stories. Using simple techniques that strip away preconceptions about the roles of men and women, the workshop will look at and explore how gender informs actors’ understanding of character and impacts audience perception.
The workshop will take place:
Saturday, 7th June
2-5 pm
Clean Break Theatre*
2 Patshull Road
London
NW5 2LB
Registration £20
*Clean Break is the workshop venue. Please contact Papercut Theatre with any queries.
This workshop will be led by Papercut Theatre Artistic Director, Melissa Dunne. Melissa is a writer, director and dramaturg for theatre and has directed work in venues as diverse as Theatre503, Arcola Theatre, the Houses of Parliament and Royal Festival Hall. She has previously read scripts for the Soho Theatre, Ice & Fire, the Bush Theatre and is currently on the literary panel for the Royal National Theatre. As a writer her work has been produced at The Miniaturists, Arcola Theatre, Latitude Festival and Assembly Festival, Edinburgh Fringe. She is a visiting tutor at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Middlesex University.
Praise for XY
“What it does do well is explore issues of gender, sex equality and commodification of bodies … like a dirtier version of That Mitchell And Webb Look but with more social commentary squeezed into these bite-size scenes.”
The F Word
“If Papercut Theatre’s aim was a great argument for more gender neutral writing and casting, and an entertaining hour’s theatre, then they have succeeded.”
Broadway World