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Award-winning writer Anya Reiss will guide you through the fundamentals of adapting classical texts, helping you discover fresh perspectives within these timeless works. Every play Anya has adapted has ended up surprising her! You’ll work out what old classics hold for new audiences, from the past. With writing exercises, sample readings and a very open q&a, working out how to make a classic exciting for audiences today.
Tuesday 19 November 2026 7pm-9:30pm (GMT)
This masterclass will take place online.
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Anya Reiss
Anya Reiss began her writing career in theatre with her debut play Spur of the Moment at the Royal Court Theatre in 2010. She won the Most Promising Playwright Award at both the Critics Circle and Evening Standard awards that year, along with Best New Play at the TMAs.
Her follow-up play The Acid Test was staged at the same venue the next year, with her National Theatre Connections play Forty-Five Minutes following in 2013. Her original version of The Seagull, directed by Russell Bolam, was staged in 2012 at the Southwark Playhouse, and they worked on two further modern-day Chekhovs together - first at the same venue, then at the St James Theatre. Since then, Anya's version of Spring Awakening has toured with Headlong, and her adaptation of Oliver Twist was at the Regents' Park Theatre in 2017.
Anya's new version of The Seagull - directed by Jamie Lloyd, and starring Emilia Clarke - opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre in the summer of 2022. Recently, Anya's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House, starring Romola Garai, came to the Almeida Theatre.
In television, Anya was the creator, executive producer, and writer of the Starz series Becoming Elizabeth.
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