TALL STORIES
A new course especially designed for aspiring writers, story-tellers and actors who want to explore ways to tell and create stories for stage and small screen. This year we are not running a separate writing course but are aiming to attract writers who appreciate working alongside story-telling performers to create a final showcase of collaborative work at the end of the week.
The course will draw on one of the highlights of recent Riding Lights work (much admired at Summer Schools over the years) - the inventive and engaging ways our Roughshod Companies have told their own stories and other people's in a wide variety of theatrical styles, whether the approach has been comedic, poetic, physical, melodramatic, narrative, rapping or using striking images or objects. or something else! This year Tall Stories will give you the chance to do the same - to turn your story or the story of someone else you admire into a 'digistory' (using simple computer technology) or a striking piece of theatrical story-telling to present at the end of the week.
Riding Lights writer and director Bridget Foreman and Barrie Stephenson, who runs the specialist digital storytelling company www.digistories.co.uk, among others, will steer this course and help you to tell stories in an unforgettable way.
A new course especially designed for aspiring writers, story-tellers and actors who want to explore ways to tell and create stories for stage and small screen. This year we are not running a separate writing course but are aiming to attract writers who appreciate working alongside story-telling performers to create a final showcase of collaborative work at the end of the week.
The course will draw on one of the highlights of recent Riding Lights work (much admired at Summer Schools over the years) - the inventive and engaging ways our Roughshod Companies have told their own stories and other people's in a wide variety of theatrical styles, whether the approach has been comedic, poetic, physical, melodramatic, narrative, rapping or using striking images or objects. or something else! This year Tall Stories will give you the chance to do the same - to turn your story or the story of someone else you admire into a 'digistory' (using simple computer technology) or a striking piece of theatrical story-telling to present at the end of the week.
Riding Lights writer and director Bridget Foreman and Barrie Stephenson, who runs the specialist digital storytelling company www.digistories.co.uk, among others, will steer this course and help you to tell stories in an unforgettable way.