Drama and Theatre Studies Undergraduate & Postgraduate Students & Graduates Collaboration

18 Oct 2017

10 X 10 Short Play Event 
Cork Arts Theatre 
17th - 21st Oct 
With plays written, directed and featuring a range of DTS current student and graduates. 

Current studnet Michael Ryan describes how he got involved with the 10 X 10 Min Play Event 

"During the summer, I participated in the “Playwright as Researcher” week long Workshop held in UCC on 10^th to 14th July 2017. This workshop, facilitated by Drama and Theatre Studies postgraduate, Jenny Rogers, was part of Jenny’s research for her PhD. A range of experienced Theatre and Drama practitioners attended the workshop. As part of the workshop, through exploring various playwrighting research processes and drama devising techniques, the foundation of a new play was established with its basis narrative structure, characters and themes developed. The participants wrote a draft of some scenes for this play using the characters they had created. After the workshop, I developed one scene that I had written into a stand-alone ten-minute play. I submitted this play to the Cork Arts Theatre 10x10 Short Play Festival. The play was accepted into the festival and I asked one of the workshop participants, Tamasin MacCarthy Morrogh to direct. I will be performing in it along with Mary Keating, a graduate of DTS."

Student Molly Maguire also wrote one of the plays 'Glacé Cherry' and starred in it with classmate Sarah Lynch. 

More info about the festival at http://www.corkartstheatre.com/whatson.html

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Cork Arts Theatre,

Camden Court, Carroll's Quay,

Cork, Ireland.

• Phone: 021 4505624
• Email: info@corkartstheatre.com