Image credit Ros Kavanagh. From Michael Gallen's Elsewhere, a Straymaker/Once Off production. Libretto by Carys Coburn/Michael Gallen/Annemarie Ní Chuirreáin.
Cruising the Boards
Cruising the Boards is a workshop series for queer theatremakers and writers based in Ireland led by
Carys D. Coburn & Gavin Kostick.
It's for you if you have a project you'd like to work on in dialogue with other artists, and if you're excited to discuss the distinctive problems of staging that come with queer aesthetics and queer politics. When does camp tip over into orientalism? Where's the line between trying to write parts queer performers will love to play and pandering? (Is pandering only bad when corporations do it?) How do you write about the state of trans healthcare globally without A.) going on for 13 hours or B.) making yourself too depressed to perform the show that results? If your play is a fragmentary exercise in the queer art of failure, how do you make it clear to the audience you've read Halberstam and haven't just written a bad play? Was Sarah Schulman right about Angels? Wasn't Russell Tovey great in Angels?
Group sessions will begin from discussion of participants' work. In between, Carys will be available via email for individual correspondence if you need more tailored engagement. The ethos across group work and individual work alike is one of pursuing excellence – on the artist's own terms, in a supportive atmosphere.
The title is a nod to José Esteban Muñoz's work 'Cruising Utopia: the Then and There of Queer Futurity', and looks to locate the workshops in an active spirit of exploration and play.
This course is open to artists resident on the island of Ireland and to Irish nationals living abroad.
The workshop series will take place over two weekends:
23 February, 10am - 4pm (This session is via Zoom)
15 & 16 March, 10am-5.30pm both days (These sessions are in-person in Fishamble's Dublin office with the option to attend via Zoom)
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.
If you have any further questions please contact Gavin Kostick at [email protected]
Carys D. Coburn & Gavin Kostick.
It's for you if you have a project you'd like to work on in dialogue with other artists, and if you're excited to discuss the distinctive problems of staging that come with queer aesthetics and queer politics. When does camp tip over into orientalism? Where's the line between trying to write parts queer performers will love to play and pandering? (Is pandering only bad when corporations do it?) How do you write about the state of trans healthcare globally without A.) going on for 13 hours or B.) making yourself too depressed to perform the show that results? If your play is a fragmentary exercise in the queer art of failure, how do you make it clear to the audience you've read Halberstam and haven't just written a bad play? Was Sarah Schulman right about Angels? Wasn't Russell Tovey great in Angels?
Group sessions will begin from discussion of participants' work. In between, Carys will be available via email for individual correspondence if you need more tailored engagement. The ethos across group work and individual work alike is one of pursuing excellence – on the artist's own terms, in a supportive atmosphere.
The title is a nod to José Esteban Muñoz's work 'Cruising Utopia: the Then and There of Queer Futurity', and looks to locate the workshops in an active spirit of exploration and play.
This course is open to artists resident on the island of Ireland and to Irish nationals living abroad.
The workshop series will take place over two weekends:
23 February, 10am - 4pm (This session is via Zoom)
15 & 16 March, 10am-5.30pm both days (These sessions are in-person in Fishamble's Dublin office with the option to attend via Zoom)
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.
If you have any further questions please contact Gavin Kostick at [email protected]
ABOUT CARYS D. COBURN
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Carys D. Coburn was the winner of the Verity Bargate Award 2017 for Citysong - co-produced by Soho Theatre, the Abbey Theatre, and Galway International Arts Festival.
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