David Spencer

FOUR DAYS ON DRAMATIC WRITING,  A WEEKEND DOING WHAT YOU DO IN  BERLIN, WHAT’S NOT TO LIKE ABOUT THAT? September 4th -4th 2014 & September 8th to 9th 2014, Lecturers: John von Düffel, David Spencer This comprehensive four day workshop guides you through a series of precisely patterned exercises that demonstrate the essential elements of [...]

  14-16 NOV 2013 EVERYWORD at www.everymanplayhouse.com 0151 709 4776 For a few hours each week, Jim escapes to a rented room. Here he is free from his family, his drinking, from even the tumultuous centuries unfolding around him. But tonight he is not alone – not without his younger self for company. Directed by [...]

How Did I Come To Write This Play? (for Samantha…) I grew up on a council estate, sixties and seventies; we had a neighbour out the back of our garden; she killed her husband, invited his drinking pals into her house for a chat with his corpse. After three days she was dragged screaming from [...]

July the 18th to July the 23: “A Dramatist Toolkit” David Spencer, UK and John von Dueffel, UdK – BRD. Why not come to the one of the world’s most exciting cities and participate in this fine course; those who book by the first week of June secure their place.   The course is in English [...]

I got this e-mail today: Many thanks for your submission to Equal Writes. Equal Writes has had a fantastic response to the call for submissions and we are very glad to inform you that ‘Medicine’ has been selected for performance at Tristan Bates Theatre on 11 March 2013. I am especially thrilled to be included [...]

The Glamorous Life of a Spud is a sinister, sometimes comic, psychological entertainment, not a well made play rather a dramatised poetic murder text, like a Cave song or even a Tarrantino script but done by Ken Loach. The characters are all drawn together one mid summer’s night for a poetic feast of art, violence, [...]

A Thebian Trilogy – Oedipus, Seven Against Thebes and Antigone; translated together with Deborah Gearing from John von Dueffel’s reworking, currently in the DT Schauspielhaus programme. website: http://deborahgearing-playwright.moonfruit.com

Four days in berlin at the University of Art in Berlin, hosted and lead in part by John von Dueffel and Szenisches Schrieben. We met with a group of international students, English, Swiss, German, Scandinavian, Mexican, Irish, French-Italian and our language was English. It was intense, a lot of writing and a lot of learning [...]

From late May to early June I mentored two writers, Gail Scanlon and Robert Pegg; both writers, wildly different in their approaches and style, are new to radio. Gail had some experience of theatre and a natural gift for comedy of the Sarah M type, whilst Robert is one of those rare inate and intact [...]

I was delighted to be invited by Peter Billingham, as a discussion guest, to takepart in what was a fine day of debate, argument and insight; guests ranged from Tony Coult (who wrote an early and brilliant study of Edward’s work, Methuen published it) and Sarah Brigham (of The Point Eastleigh, she continues to bring [...]