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Workshop: Give Your Play a Second Life

COURSE DESCRIPTION

If you’ve got a play that feels stuck, this workshop is your chance to bring it back to life.

We’ll look at how to approach redrafting with clarity and purpose — learning how to edit, refine, and rediscover the energy at the heart of your work. Through a mix of discussion, creative exercises, and a focus on writing fundamentals like stakes and structure, you’ll gain the tools and confidence to take your play to the next draft.

Bring your script, an open mind, and a willingness to experiment.

COURSE DETAILS

This course will run 7pm-9pm

YOUR COURSE LEADER

Somebody Jones is a Los Angeles native playwright/dramaturg, currently living, working, and dreaming in London. Jones’s work celebrates and champions Black culture in all of its charms and complexities. The playwright/dramaturg primarily works within the genres of horror, magical realism, verbatim, and recently, Black fantasy.

Jones’s debut play, HOW I LEARNED TO SWIM toured the UK in Summer 2024, going from Paines Plough’s Roundabout at the Edinburgh Fringe to Brixton House and then Bristol Old Vic. Jones is currently dramaturging Chadwick Boseman’s play, DEEP AZURE at The Globe, opening February 2026. 

The name Somebody Jones means the more you run from your past, the more you'll run into it.

 

Spaces are limited! For any further questions please email enquiry@thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk

All participants get 50% off a meal downstairs in the Drayton Arms pub

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