Outer Limits – Writing Plays Big Lungs with Rebeca Latham

The RSC New Works Manager and Dramaturg Rebecca Latham will lead a workshop exploring the idea that large or main stages require plays with ‘big lungs’.

What are the contributing factors at play? How can you as a writer be thinking about your work for those stages and what are we as readers and programmers considering?


This workshop is for mid-career professional playwrights who have already had at least one of their play professionally produced, performed by professional actors for a run of at least 11 performances or more. Or equivalent experience.


Rebecca is the RSC’s New Works Manager. Credits as dramaturg include: For the RSC: Macbeth (Daniel Raggett); Cyrano de Bergerac; Hamlet (Rupert Goold); Edward II (Daniel Raggett); Cowbois; As You Like It (Omar Elerian); First Encounters: Twelfth Night (Robin Belfield) and The Comedy of Errors (Alex Thorpe).


Rebecca oversees research and development on commissions and actively seeks out writers for the RSC to engage with. Previously Rebecca worked at the Almeida Theatre, The Old Vic, and was a Senior Reader at Theatre503.


Dates
Fri 23 Jan 2026
Prices
Pay What You Can
Running Time
120 minutes

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