Who could benefit from this course?
Have you been working on a script? Often during the making process, artists can thrive close to the work, crafting details. In these moments we might need an outside eye to help hold the bigger picture for us, observing how the details are coming together and whether the work is achieving what we’re intending. If you’ve finished a draft or hit an obstacle and you need some constructive feedback on your script, we offer script reading and feedback sessions that provide tailored support for any stage of the writing process.
How does it work?
Hello, I’m Frankie, a dramaturg. Once you purchase one of the options, you'll receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to organise a time for your feedback session (either online or in-person at The Cockpit, within the month you selected during booking). I’ll also send you a few short questions to gauge what stage of the process you’re at and whether you have specific questions or aspects of your script you would like assessed.
Once the session is booked and I’ve received your answers and script, I read it. During a first read I like to focus solely on my emotional response and reactions as an imaginary audience member. Then I’ll re-read your script, look at the answers to your questions and spend time looking at structure, plot, characters, dramatic conflict, dialogue, pace, setting, themes, theatricality, audience relationship, context and genre etc.
During a feedback session, usually I start by asking a few more questions about the work and your intentions for it. I’ll then share my thoughts and questions about the script, we discuss the work and your potential next steps developing it.
Please note this service doesn’t provide advice about how to get your work staged, for this you can book advice sessions here.
Dates, Times & Cost
We offer pay-what-you-can pricing with one session available at each price point per month:
- Standard - £125.00
- Discounted - £100.00
- Plus - £150.00. Booking at this price allows us to offer discounted pricing to another writer.
To book, select the month that you would like to have your session. Book by the 15th to ensure your session can take place within the month you've booked.
Instalment plans are available - just add a place to your basket as normal, then during the checkout process you'll be given the option to pay in full or pay instalments. A payment of 50% is due at checkout to hold your place, with the remaining balance due before your session can be booked.
Other dramaturgy options
If you are interested in dramaturgical support for work that isn’t predominantly text based or longer term dramaturgical support across a development process, please do email theatremaker
thecockpit.org.uk to let us how we could help. We can discuss availability, budget and a potential bespoke offering.
Who is the dramaturg?
I’m Frankie, a UK based director, dramaturg and theatre maker. I love telling stories, stories that help us to connect and understand the world better, stories that "keep us from falling off the edge of the world."
And for me, theatre’s storytelling superpowers are in it being a collaborative and communal artform, in both its making and fruition. It’s important to me to make work that celebrates those things - being collaborative and communal.
I love working on new stories.
I love theatre that engage audiences in inventive and thoughtful ways.
I love working in and mixing different genres – text-based theatre, physical theatre, dance,
opera, clown, musical theatre, spoken word…
I love theatre that is messy, ambiguous and feels live.
I originally trained and worked as a ballet dancer before moving into theatre. I completed my MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck, University of London. Other formative parts of my training were with SITI Company at SITI Skidmore 2019 and Doing Dramaturgy with Lou Cope (Centre of Applied Dramaturgy).
What is a dramaturg?
A dramaturg is someone who supports the lead artist/s to fulfil their artistic vision in the making of a performance piece. Ordinarily, a dramaturg doesn’t make any creative decisions; the lead artist/s are ultimately responsible for the dramaturgy of their work. A dramaturg works in dialogue with the creative team to help them realise their work, teasing shape, meaning and resonance. At its core, to be a dramaturg is to be a creative ally.
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