Led by the creators of Good Mourning, director Hannah Armstrong and writer Sonia Dodd. Created for the Grieve Project.

Good Mourning is a new Australian play which explores loss and grief from the perspective of an eight-year-old. Pieced together from interviews, news reports, and diary entries, Good Mourning captures the true story of Hannah’s father’s death from the varying perspectives of Hannah’s family members.

This workshop explores how the body can be used to generate stories. Through a series of writing prompts and movement exercises, participants write a short piece of work then, using verbatim theatre techniques, explore the complexity of different characters’ perspectives. Hannah and Sonia will explore the techniques they used to create the script and offer insights into the challenges of capturing different characters’ perspectives.

At the end of the workshop, participants walk away with a new piece of writing and a range of tools they can use to explore different perspectives, and insight into how to get a story out of the body and onto paper… and vice versa!

This workshop is a partnership between Tantrum Youth Arts and the Hunter Writers’ Centre’s Grieve Project.

The Grieve Project is an initiative of the Hunter Writers’ Centre. Now in its 11^th year, Grieve explores storytelling across a spectrum of loss.