Box office: 020 7978 7040
The pulse of every play lies in language: it shapes a play’s atmosphere, creates rhythm, paints pictures, and, through linguistic and poetic cues, inspires the theatre-makers working to bring the play to life. Language, from its most everyday use to the most lyrical, gives us access to interior worlds, and renders the stage a poetic space. How can writers become more sensitive to language, and harness it more effectively and intentionally in their plays? Led by playwright Joel Tan (Scenes from a Repatriation), this workshop will take participants through writing exercises that focus on elements like rhythm, metaphor, sound, and diction, discovering the ways attention to language can help shape and deepen other areas of playwriting like character, narrative, and theatricality.
Date: Tuesday 10 March 2026
Time: 7pm – 9:30pm
Running time of workshop: 2.5 hours – delivered online. 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.
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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.
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Joel Tan
Joel Tan is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter based between London/Singapore. Described as one of the most exciting Singaporean playwrights of his generation, his plays have received acclaim for their incisive and witty interrogation of his home city’s politics and society. Theatre in the UK includes SCENES FROM A REPATRIATION which had rave reviews and a sold out run at the Royal Court Upstairs in Spring 2025, and NO PARTICULAR ORDER, which was shortlisted for Theatre503's 2018 Playwriting Award and produced there in 2022. He is under commission to Headlong to adapt HEART OF DARKNESS. In Singapore, recent work includes G*D IS A WOMAN and a new adaptation of TARTUFFE, both with Wild Rice, where Joel is Artist in Residence.
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