Workshop: The Story Pirates - Adaptation Methods

Story Pirates creates theatre to celebrate the words and ideas of children. Using improvisational acting skills and collaborative theatre making, this workshop will introduce actors to the Story Pirates acting aesthetic. The workshop will include ensemble building games, improvisational theatre exercises and will culminate in the adaptation of stories into short theatre pieces.

This workshop is aimed at actors, storytellers, students of acting or enthusiasts who would like to get introduced to the Story Pirate process of adaptation of stories.

**Each participant is expected to bring with them at least one story, this could be either a local or regional folktale or an original writing by a child in your family or neighbourhood. You can help kids get their stories down on paper, but there’s no need to edit or correct spelling or grammar. The language of the story to be in English.