The New Work Theatre

14/02/2022

Would anyone like to share what they're writing at the moment?

23/05/2021

01/05/2021

QOTD: "Why I Write. Because kidnapping people and forcing them to act out your interesting make-belive worlds is technically illegal."

20/04/2021

Any thoughts about this? As in - a plot for a play?

Sounds like a great story for a hilarious children’s book...

15/03/2021

Purloin [per-LOIN]
(v.)
-To appropriate wrongfully and often by a breach of trust.
-To steal.

From Middle English “purloynen” (to put away, misappropriate) from Anglo-French “purluigner” (to prolong, postpone, set aside) from “pur-” (forward) + “luin” (at a distance) from Latin “longe” from “longus” (long).

Used in a sentence:
“Well, then; I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that a certain document of the last importance, has been purloined from the royal apartments. The individual who purloined it is known; this beyond a doubt; he was seen to take it.”
~Edgar Allan Poe - The Purloined Letter

14/03/2021

Palpebrous [PAL-puh-brus]
(adj.)
- Having thick or bushy eyebrows.

From late Latin “palpebralis" from Latin "palpebra" (eyelid)

Used in a sentence:
“Go ask her out, I hear that she really has a thing for palpebrous chaps!”

23/02/2021

Poetry!

18/12/2020

Something to think about.

QOTD: "In 1606, Shakespeare's theatre was forced to close because of the plague. So he wrote King Lear, Macbeth, Antony & Cleopatra. Wash your hands. Be grateful. Get better at what you do." -Matt Lagan

17/12/2020

Well, you know what they say... If it worked for George Lucas, it might just work for you. Good luck.

Let’s play a geeky movie game: What do these three movies have in common? The Searchers The Hidden Fortress Flash Gordon They are wildly different genres and have plots that have nothing to do with each other. But they all influenced one person. George Lucas. You can look at the opening scroll...

10/11/2020

A little something to practise on and I will be very interested to see what you make of this. Good luck!

In six words or fewer, write a story based on this image. Remember, it’s a story, not a caption.

09/10/2020

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Scaramouche [SKAHR-uh-moosh]
(n.)
-A boastful but cowardly person.
-A stock character in the Italian commedia dell'arte that burlesques the Spanish don and is characterized by boastfulness and cowardliness.
-A cowardly buffoon.
-A ruffian; scoundrel.

From French "Scaramouche" from Italian "scaramuccia" (skirmish) First -1662.

Used in a sentence:
“Your uncle is such a Scaramouche, and I refuse to let him prevent our betrothal!”

25/09/2020

Thanks to Grant Snider, cartoonist extraordinaire: incidentalcomics.com or facebook.com/incidentalcomics

28/07/2020

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent: “Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:

I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.

What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.

Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?

Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.

God bless you all!

Kurt Vonnegut

Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press Goose Lane Editions Breakwater Books Ltd. The Acorn Press Bouton d'or Acadie Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada

25/07/2020

An overview of the core concepts of story – research, setting, character and dialogue – a basic exploration  of The Hero's Journey and its main character archetypes, as well as an overview of the essential tools of  the trade needed to write professionally.

15/07/2020

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24/06/2020

68 signatures are still needed! Save UK theatres

14/05/2020

True dat 🎭❤️