Monthly Archives: August 2014

Back for the 12th year, it’s the one and only, ever-popular, never-duplicated, totally untamed PlaySlam!

This is something like a poetry slam with short plays vying for fame, and fortune. Who wins? The audience decides!

With one night for rehearsal AND performance, the actors dive headlong onto the stage and perform all Round 1 plays. The audience votes on their top 5 playwrights who proceed to Round 2. The playwright with the most votes at the end of the night wins the $100 prize.

http://www.artscenterlive.org/events/playslam/

https://www.facebook.com/events/321867967991576/?fref=ts

Script doctor Will Bennett will return to his hometown to teach playwriting and screenwriting in two venues this fall.

Bennett will be teaching a two-hour, weekly playwriting class for adults at the Carrboro ArtsCenter beginning on Thursday, September 11. Classes begin at 6:15 and end at 8:15pm, September 11 – December 4 (12 weeks). $216 public, $194 for Friends of the ArtsCenter.
To register: http://www.artscenterlive.org/classes/1012-playwriting-101/

Bennett will also be teaching a Playwriting/Screenwriting Class at Central Carolina Community College in Pittsboro starting September 10 through December 3, 6:30pm to 9pm (12 weeks). Cost for this class is $215.25.
To register: call CCCC Continuing Education: 919-545-8044 or visit www.cccc.edu/creativewriting/

Both courses will include class discussion of take-home readings and film, and thorough examination of students’ own work. Students will work towards the completion of a new screenplay/play or one already in progress. Both courses are suitable for writers at any level. Among others, Bennett wrote the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway play “Corporate Rock” and produced the Off-Broadway cult hit “Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy”, starring Corey Feldman. Before joining the theatre ranks he worked as a journalist in NYC and taught fiction writing at the University of Virginia, where he earned an MFA. He also holds an MA in Writing for Performance from the University of London. For the past few years he has worked as a guide and co-owner of a whitewater rafting company in Montana, where he continues to write and edit manuscripts of all shapes and sizes. He will be returning to his hometown of Chapel Hill in August.

For more information contact:

Cindy Campbell
919-923-8857
cincam@aol.com

Hannah Turner
919-636-1322
Hst6152@gmail.com

Come say “Hey” at our CPF booth Aug 23 at Cary’s annual Lazy Daze downtown arts celebration (9-5pm)! Take a selfie with our life-sized Bard of Stratford and post to social media (FB, Twitter, Instagram) to enter our contest for show tickets! Answer a theatre trivia question for candy and prestige! If you want to donate theatre trivia Q/As, add as comments here or email to cpfinfo@caryplaywrightsforum.org!