On Monday 10 February our Monday Masterclass was led by playwright, John Pritchard.

The workshop began with a 15 minute monologue writing session, and afterwards students were given the opportunity to share their work with the rest of the class.

Mr Pritchard explained how and why playwrights use adjectives in their monologues. Using descriptive words in monologues helps to paint a picture of what the playwright’s character might be like, what kind of personality they may have and the type of setting the character is in. Describing in such detail also helps transfer monologues from paper to stage.

The next part of the workshop was to develop the monologues that the students had created by thinking how they could change and apply them to different playwright situations e.g script writing for a TV Soap Opera rather than just writing for theatre production.