Burning Coal Theatre Offers Beginning Playwriting Class This Fall

Burning Coal Theatre Company's new Director of Education, Jorie Slodki, will be teaching a class in Beginning Playwriting in September/October, 2015 (September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 19, and 26).

Participants will spend six weeks learning the basic elements necessary for a quality play through in-class exercises, reading modern American works, and speaking with local playwrights. By the end of class, participants will have written their own one-act plays.

The cost is $155. Registration: 919.834.4001

No playwriting experience is necessary. Students will be expected to both read and write outside of class. Space is limited, so early registration is encouraged.

Class will be held at Burning Coal's Murphey School Auditorium on Monday nights from 7-10pm. Class will be held September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 19, and 26. The cost is $155. For payment information, call us at 919.834.4001.

Beginning Playwriting is the first adult education class offered by Burning Coal this season. Ms. Slodki will be teaching classes in Public Speaking in January 2016 and Stand-Up Comedy in April 2016.

To register for this class or ask more questions about Burning Coal's ongoing education programming, contact Jorie Slodki at (919) 834-4001 or burning_coal@ipass.net.

Burning Coal Theatre Company is one of Raleigh's professional theatre companies. Burning Coal is an incorporated, non-profit [501 (c) (3)] organization. Burning Coal's mission is to produce literate, visceral, affecting theatre that is experienced, not simply seen. Burning Coal produces explosive reexaminations of overlooked classic and modern plays, as well as new plays, whose themes and issues are of immediate concern to our audience, using the best local, national and international artists available. We work toward a theatre of high-energy performances and minimalist production values. The emphasis is on literate works that are felt and experienced viscerally, unlike more traditional linear plays, at which audiences are most often asked to observe without participating. Race and gender non-specific casting is an integral component of our perspective, as well as an international viewpoint.