Write Your First Full Length Play with Steve Harper: 8-Week Online Course
Venue: Theatre503
Date: 07/10/2026
Type: Literary arts Performing arts Theatre Workshop
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Theatre503's flagship writing course, to support you to write your first full length play led by Literary Manager, Steve Harper.
Our course will provide a structured exploration at pivotal stages of the process and incorporate discussion, exercises and shared experience around particular points in the process and directly in response to the work you are creating throughout.
Week One – Wednesday 9 September 2026 7pm-9:30pm (GMT)
Ideas
Week Two – Wednesday 16 September 2026 7pm-9:30pm (GMT)
Mapping Your Play
Week Three – Wednesday 23 September 2026 7pm-9:30pm (GMT)
Character & Character Journeys
Week Four – Wednesday 7 October 2026 7pm-9:30pm (GMT)
Scenes
Week Five – Wednesday 14 October 2026 7pm-9:30pm (GMT)
Dialogue/Subtext
Week Six – Wednesday 21 October 2026 7pm-9:30pm (GMT)
Setting/Space
Week Seven – Wednesday 28 October 2026 7pm-9:30pm (GMT)
Structure
Week Eight – Wednesday 4 November 2026 7pm-9:30pm (GMT)
Tutorials/Feedback
Acknowledging that not one given process works for all writers, we will aim to explore as many alternative processes as possible. Writers will be encouraged to explore and share their own experiences of what has been useful and what has got in the way, with the course providing a space within which to reflect on these and guidance to how we might best draw on these experiences to inform our writing processes going forward.
We will provide ongoing dramaturgical support throughout the process, but with an awareness to the fact that all writers processes are bespoke. In this sense, whilst structured, we will also have the flexibility to provide different levels of dramaturgical support to individual writers at different stages of the process. Please note we cannot commit to an ongoing dramaturgical relationship with any pieces that may develop on this course, or commit to a production. However we will offer an open and honest discussion with all participants about possible next steps for their work, recommendations of other development opportunities that might be of benefit, and guidance to where their work may best be suited in terms of future engagement.
It is important to consider that this is not an introduction to playwriting but a course that will provide opportunities to refresh our basic knowledge of the craft in direct relationship to our work and the objective of writing a play. It is a course aimed at helping those writers trying to move from writing short plays to full length work, or those who might have written some full length work and feel it would be helpful to have a structured and ongoing dramaturgical relationship throughout the process.
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Theatre503, 503 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BW
Phone: 020 7978 7040
Web site: https://theatre503.com