A collaborative brainstorming session with Turning Worm Theatre Joint-Artistic Director, Marcella Rick. Turning Worm is a disability-led theatre company, producing bold, queer new work with a focus on creatively integrating accessibility into their projects. In this workshop, Marcella will explore how their queerness, scouseness and disabilities have shaped their writing process. Touching on their experience writing authentic regional dialects, breaking grammatical rules and foregoing spell checks, Marcella will lead activities designed to support participants to identify the moulds that they would like to break free from when planning and writing their own stories.
What we’ll explore
- Embracing authentic voice: Learn how to write with confidence in your own dialect, identity, and lived experience – including using regional language, breaking grammatical norms, and challenging conventional writing rules.
- Creative accessibility: Discover how accessibility can be an integrated and imaginative part of the writing process, not an afterthought, inspired by Turning Worm Theatre’s disability-led practices.
- Breaking the mould: Identify personal and societal expectations that limit your storytelling, and develop tools and exercises to subvert or shed them in order to write more authentically.
