A scriptwriting course for theatre is being organised by the Arts Council Malta, the University of Malta and St James Cavalier Centre of Creativity.

The course, which forms part of the national theatre scriptwriting award Premju Francis Ebejer, which was recently restructured, starts in October and will be based on three workshops in November, January and March.

Lectures will be delivered by three award-winning theatre scriptwriters – Goran Stefanovski, Fraser Grace and Cathy Crabb – in collaboration with the School of Performing Arts at the University of Malta and the St James Cavalier Centre of Creativity.

The course will help address the fact that, in the past few years, scripts submitted for the Premju Francis Ebejer often did not reach the required level.

Last year, Arts Council Malta announced that it would be restructuring the award to contribute directly to the development of writers and their works.

Premju Francis Ebejer is an incentive for writers to aim higher and work to renew Maltese theatre. The award for best plays is not merely financial but includes support for the winning scripts in all the categories to be produced and published. The calls for Premju Francis Ebejer will be out in 2015 and the prizes will be awarded later that year.

Premju Francis Ebejer is an incentive for writers to aim higher and work to renew Maltese theatre

Goran Stefanovski is senior lecturer of scriptwriting at Christ Church University College, Canterbury, UK. He has won numerous awards including the Best Play Award for Bachannalia at the annual Macedonian National Drama Theatre Festival and the Vilenica Literary Prize, an award by an international jury to an author from Central Europe for outstanding achievement in the field of literary creativity and essay writing. In 2005 he received the Golden Award for lifetime achievement in playwriting by the International Theatre Festival Sterijino Pozorje in Novi Sad.

Fraser Grace is a playwright and is currently Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham and Convenor. His play Breakfast with Mugabe won the Arts Council’s John Whiting Award and the Silver Prize at the Sony Radio Academy Award, while Perpetua won the Best New Play award at the Verity Bargate Awards.

Cathy Crabb was the winner of the Manchester Evening News Best Fringe Production Award with the play Moving Pictures.

Courses will be delivered in English, but scripts will be produced in Maltese and in English. The deadline for applications is October 10. Price is €360.

This unit will also be considered as part of the Programme for the Liberal Arts and Sciences (PLAS).

Applications and more information are available online.

http://www.um.edu.mt/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/222938/reg-scriptwriting.p

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