The Stage Calls

Dates:
JULY 12, 19, 26
AUGUST 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
SEPTEMBER 6, 13, 20, 27
Ages: 13 years & above (Minimum of 10 students in a class, maximum of 15)
Time: 1.00 -3.00pm
Course fee: RM 300
Registration fee: RM50

Programme Outline:
Playwriting for Beginners is a comprehensive 12-week course that explores the basic tools required of an aspiring playwright. From finding a stimulus to start your play to finding your writer’s ‘voice’, Playwriting for Beginners is for anybody with a story to tell. The course will end with a rehearsed reading of the participants’ scripts.

Programme Objectives: To discover and nurture aspiring playwrights.

About the ‘Cikgu’:

Mark Beau de Silva is a playwright, actor and teacher. He has been writing plays since his teenage years and his play ‘Stories for Amah’ (directed by Joe Hasham) was nominated for 5 awards at the Cameronian Arts Awards 2002, including Best Script.

Since then, Mark has written plays for The Actors Studio and KLPac, the most recent ones being ‘My Indon Maid’ (directed by Dato’ Faridah Merican), ‘Ah Steve’ (Dato’ Faridah Merican) and ‘Paper House’.

Mark is also an actor and has acted in Georges Bizet’s ‘Carmen’, Edward Dorall’s ‘Another Wrestling’, Lim Chuang Yik and Teng Ky Gan’s ‘Broken Bridges’ and ‘Tunku the Musical’, Tony Kushner’s ‘The Illusion’ and most recently, Paula Vogel’s ‘How I Learned to Drive’. His play ‘Ah Steve’ was also nominated for Best Script at the 2007 Cameronian Arts Awards this year.

Mark is Writer/ Director-in-Residence at KLPac and is currently pursuing his Masters in Performing Arts