Join us for The Ampersand Review writing series!

Writing Plays for Bodies in Space: Theatre as a Container or Shape

A workshop for creative writers interested in exploring the form and structure of plays. We will use free-writing exercises to explore our experience of the world and the feeling of things (versus an objective or outside perspective about the “logic” of things). We will then look for an associated shape that might contain this experience in live performance, and explore this via a monologue and a dialogue (we’ll write both!). We’ll share these aloud with a curiosity about bodies in space (e.g. the writing body, the performing body, the witnessing body), prioritizing availability over interpretation and experimentation over perfection.

**Writers should please bring a notebook and pen

Jill Connell (she/they) is a playwright, director, and theatre producer based in Tkaronto. Her plays include The Supine Cobbler, HROSES: outrage à la raison, The Tall Building, and Arctic Ocean. She runs the independent theatre company It Could Still Happen: a collective of interdisciplinary artists who create performances based on text, space and embodied practice. This March, they will premiere The Herald – an inquiry about lostness and labour – in partnership with Canada’s longest-running queer theatre, Buddies in Bad Times. Jill is a graduate of the playwriting program at the National Theatre School of Canada and has an MA in English from the University of New Brunswick. Recently, she has performed her writing at Oral Method, Pack Animal, and Trampoline Hall. She misses teaching playwriting at Sheridan.

Please note that this event will be taking place in room B222 in the B-wing of Sheridan College's HMC campus in Mississauga.