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The Factory has long desired to figure out its equivalent to a literary department, and to define some sort of dramaturgical process. So far we haven’t known quite how such things should be put into practice, nor what form they should take. We have felt that, up until now, we haven't fostered as much writers’ discussion as we would have hoped, and, although we have managed to provide space and actors, and a chance for some members to hear their work out loud, we have not done a great deal to help develop any of our members’ full-length plays. After a great deal of time and thought we have come up with something we hope might become very important to us all.Outside of exciting writing tasks, and challenging briefs, if The Factory is to offer anything to writers, it should be the freedom to do things the way they want to do them, and to express themselves as fully as possible. However, whilst believing this, I also know that writers need people to encourage and push them in the same way actors do. People who know what they are capable of and who demand it of them at all times. Well, over the last couple of years we have seen very clearly that we have in our merry band some who posses such positive critical abilities, and who seem very eager to be employed to help push creative buttons and envelopes.Therefore we have appointed Federay Holmes as our New Writing Associate, and are setting up THE FACTORY’S FEEDBACK, which we very much hope some of you will be part of. It will be an informal group/circle of chosen members who, when possible will be available to lend their eyes, ears, thoughts, and suggestions to pieces of new work, and will largely be chaired by Federay. We are very pleased to have her in a proper role as she is clearly someone with great vision regarding the role of writers in The Factory and, as she says herself, largely only writes for us, and thus has more time for the bigger picture.We hope to use Fed and FEEDBACK in a number of ways:

to foster greater exploration and discussion amongst our writers;
to aid development of The Factory's new writing projects on the whole;
to aid and encourage the development of new works by our members (whether it is being written for The Factory or not);
to help nurture those members who are moving into writing from another arena;
to help vet those wishing to join the company as writers;
and to find new ways to approach dramaturgy in general.

The Process For New WorkThe idea is that when a member has a draft of something they wish to be helped with, or when work is submitted during a group project, as many of the reading group as possible will read the work privately, before gathering to hear it read aloud, unrehearsed, by our actors. After it has been heard the group would then have a chaired discussion, with the writer, aiming to help them get to the play THEY WANT TO WRITE, whilst encouraging them to keep to, yet explore the brief, if there is one.Any member can offer work to be read, and we hope that by putting all new work that The Factory produces through this process, however many times required, we will ensure that its new writing is as true a platform for creative expression through words as possible, and of the highest quality.Vetting Scripts From OutsideThe group would, at times be called upon to read scripts from those wishing to be considered for membership so that the Artistic Directorship can hear their opinions and not have to read them all themselves. There can be quite a few!We hope that you will see this as a great opportunity to help expand the scope of The Factory's ability to support and feed creation in an open and non-hierarchical, non box ticking way. We are very eager for FEEDBACK to become an integral part of The Factory's very fabric, so hope you feel that we have listened to what you feel is missing for writers in The Factory, and the industry as a whole, and are going some way to providing what is wanting.

TimEvans	Latest page update: made by TimEvans , Sep 5 2009, 4:15 PM EDT (about this update About This Update Moved from: New Writing - TimEvans No content added or deleted. - complete history)
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