Box office: 020 7978 7040
This workshop will use The LeftBehinds co-created by Ross Willis and Ned Bennett. The LeftBehinds is a Sci-Fi Western that was commissioned for the National Theatre’s Secondary Schools Tour in 2025. The script will be sent to you ahead of the session.
The workshop will look at approaches for staging bombastic, high-action stage directions.
By placing an emphasis on an active, collaborative process with a conscious approach to integrating different production elements (primarily movement and design)- the exercises will look at how balance can be found between expressionism and narrative clarity.
The workshop will cover:
An Introduction to Viewpoints (improvisational movement methodology)
Exercises for making material for staging complex sequences
Exercises for editing work in a rehearsal process
Participants will be asked to read the one-act script in advance of the workshop.
This intensive day will take place at Theatre503’s new space – the 503Studio in Nine Elms.
Date: Saturday 21 March 2026
Time: 10am – 6pm
Running time of workshop: 8 hours (with 1 hour lunch break) – delivered in-person at The 503Studio. Maximum class sizes are 16. A portion of spaces have been reserved for Share the Drama places.
If you have any access requirements, you can let us know by filling out our Writer’s Programme Accessibility Form or contacting Theatre503 via our Writers’ Programme email, writersprogramme@theatre503.com or by calling 02079787040.
For further details of Theatre503 Accessibility, please visit the Access page of our website.
Thanks to our Share The Drama scheme, we want to make sure those of you who are struggling in the current climate can still take part in our Writers Programme. If you would like to book a Share The Drama bursary for the Writer’s Programme, please call our box office on 02079787040.
Online booking for this workshop will close on Wednesday 18th March at 12pm. If you wish to book after this time, please call our box office on 02079787040.
Ned Bennett
Ned is a freelance theatre director. He has made productions for the National Theatre, in the West End and across the UK. Selected theatre productions include Equus by Peter Shaffer co-produced by the English Touring Theatre, Theatre Royal, Stratford East and Trafalgar Theatre. An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Pomona by Alistair McDowall both produced by the Orange Tree Theatre and National Theatre. Yen by Anna Jordan at the Royal Exchange, Manchester and Royal Court Theatre.
Most recently he directed and co-created The LeftBehinds for the National Theatre’s Secondary Schools Tour (2025). He is a recipient of the Peter Hall Bursary at the National Theatre of Great Britain (2020-22). He trained at the Royal Court, National Theatre, LAMDA and with SITI Company. Ned has made work in the prison system with Synergy Theatre Project and with young people for The Big House Theatre Company and the National Youth Theatre.
Next year he will be directing a new production of Simon Stephens’ adaptation of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a co-production between Birmingham Rep and Melting Pot.
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