Encore Theatre and Snowgoose

Introduction

Snowgoose is part of Script Yorkshire and provides training and support to emerging playwrights in the Bradford area within West Yorkshire. Listed below is information about Snowgoose and Encore Theatre joint activities. If you would like to get involved please email us – details below.

Snowgoose Meetings

Snowgoose meets throughout the year, mostly fortnightly, on Monday nights in the Ring O’ Bells pub, Shipley. Group members learn together and share their writing. Sessions are run by Yorkshire playwright Jonathan Hall.

Snowgoose Writing Weekends

These intensive weekends provide participants with the opportunity to develop aspects of their writing skills as well as the challenge to write short scripts. Led by Jonathan Hall they are supported by professional actors, directors and other writers.

Page To Stage

Page to Stage is an initiative suited to the early stage of a play’s development. The writer’s short script is produced by a director and actors, script in hand, and performed in front of the writer and their peers. The writer sees their script in performance and, through supportive critical feedback is encouraged to develop their work as necessary and appropriate. Page to Stage is co-ordinated by Jonathan Hall and is run at The Bradford Playhouse in the months of January, March, May, September and November.

Plays For Today

Selected short plays (max 30 mins) that have been through Page To Stage will then be produced to a professional performance standard for Plays For Today. Produced by Encore Theatre each April and October, Plays for Today runs for two nights in front of a paying audience at The Carriageworks, Leeds.

Full Length Plays

Encore Theatre and Snowgoose intend to produce full length plays three times a year in January, May and September – starting January 2012. January productions will be the winner of the Annual Ronald Duncan Playwriting Competition, Jo’s War by Lucy Bell.

Don't hesitate to contact us at Encore Drama if you would like more information.