February 1996 | Playwrights Lab
New Writing for Younger Audiences
"The Lab has been a burst of energies, possibilities, excitements and creativity. Brilliant." April de Angelis
Having been a participant in PAL’s first ever Opera and Music Theatre Lab (1991), April de Angelis joined the 1996 Playwrights Lab as a mentor.
“As a writer myself I found the mixture of approaches, styles and themes stimulating and challenging…Because it was a Lab centred on ‘writing for young people’ I felt that an extraordinarily rich imaginative territory was opened up – maybe because each writer has to contact their child or adolescent in order to sharpen their sense of who their audience will be. I found this is a wonderful thing to witness from the outside and I spent a lot of the week hoping it would rub off on me.”
April de Angelis
Lab co-directors
Maura Dooley
John Retallack
Lab mentors
April de Angelis - playwright
Suzy Graham Adriani - producer/director
Suzanne van Lohuizen - playwright
Lab participants
Jane Buckler - writer
Helen East - writer
Kitty Fitzgerald - writer
Sheila Goff - writer
Glyn Maxwell - writer
Dominic Minghella - writer
Stephen Mollet - writer
Tim Plester - writer
Mia Soteriou - actor
Colin Teague - actor
Michael Wicherek - writer
Andrew Wincott - actor
Andrew Wray - actor
Visitors
Sarah Argent - APT
Roy Blatchford - teacher
Ad de Brunt - writer
Giles Croft - Artistic Director, Watford Palace Theatre
Michael Earley - publisher
Andrew Rowley - producer, BBC
Willy Russell - playwright
Funded by
Foundation for Sport & the Arts
Baring Foundation
Gulbenkian Foundation
SE Arts
Arts Council England (Education & Training Dept)
Enterprise Oil plc
Marks & Spencer plc
