This session explores the things we need to think about when writing an opening scene for a play or story. How can your students start their story in the most exciting way possible for their reader and audience?

IN THIS LESSON

Chinonyerem Odimba is a playwright, theatre director and poet.

Her work for theatre includes Joanne and Amongst the Reeds for Clean Break / The Yard, a modern retelling of Twist for Theatre Centre, and Medea at Bristol Old Vic. More recent commissions have seen her work produced at Hampstead Theatre, Kiln Theatre, Live Theatre, Watermill Theatre and Vaults Festival.

She is the Artistic Director and CEO of tiata fahodzi.