This unique programme focuses on the practical exploration of the theory and craft of writing for performance. It explores how a script is written to be interpreted by the key creative artists in theatre and how that script plays out in space and time in front of an audience. Through seminars, tutorials, workshops and professional master classes (led by some of Europe's leading playwrights and theatre artists), you will develop an understanding of live performance theory, self-motivation and the focus necessary to work as an independent artist within the theatre industry. Edinburgh has a buzzing theatre scene and the programme draws on this to culminate in a public, professional reading of your work in progress at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Students who successfully complete this programme will be introduced to and become skilled in a range of applied methods for the development and structuring of dramatic script for live performance; develop a knowledge and understanding of writing for different kinds of performance contexts from the single-authored play to devised work; develop a knowledge and understanding of the theory, methodology and practice of writing different genres from tragedy and comedy to political theatre; develop self-motivation and the focus necessary to work as an independent artist within the theatre industry; develop their critical skills as readers of their own and others' work and as creators and consumers of live performance; develop a familiarity with the professional development and production processes of live performance and how these impact on the making of script.