How to Write Class

Holly Beasley-Garrigan

Pier Street
Sunday 20 July
5.45-7.15pm
£3-10 (Pay What You Decide)

How can playwrights write about class in 2025 with honesty, complexity and care?

In this practical and provocative workshop, writer and theatre-maker Holly Beasley-Garrigan (Opal Fruits, Tealeaf) leads a practical workshop on how class shapes the stories we tell, the characters we write and the communities we represent.

Drawing on her own background and interdisciplinary practice, Holly will guide writers through exercises and provocations to consider how class intersects with culture, voice, place and power.

Age recommendation 14+, with parental discretion. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

  • Holly is a Performance-Maker, Choreographer, Movement Director and Performer with a background spanning Theatre, Dance, Music and Live Art.

    Concerned with re-claiming space - as a queer, female artist who grew up on benefits - she likes making anarchic work that seriously questions the traditional ways we’re permitted to create and consume art. Holly specialises in devised, site-specific, immersive and inter-disciplinary performance for unusual spaces and audiences.

    Previous acclaim includes a Scotsman Fringe First Award & MTN Innovation Award for Fine Chisel’s Dumbstruck (2013); ThreeWeeks Editors' Award for Fine Chisel’s Edinburgh Season (2012); Best Collective Award for The Flanagan Collective’s Adelaide Season (2016); Vault Festival Outstanding Contribution Award for The Guild of Misrule’s The Great Gatsby (2017). She recently developed I, OBJECT; a site-specific film installation createdwith residents on the Knowle West council estate in Bristol. Holly co-created, choreographed and performed as Jordan Baker in The Guild of Misrule's ImmersiveGreat Gatsby(2015), the longest-running immersive show in the UK, transferring to London’s West End and internationally to Brussels, South Korea and New York. She’s has also taken part in the Royal Court Playwriting course, led by Kimber Lee.

    Holly’s debut solo show Opal Fruits was developed via the Bristol Old Vic, and was featured as one of the shows highlighted by Screen Daily at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it was performed at the Pleasance Courtyard. Holly subsequently took the show on tour at multiple venues across the UK. 

Tickets

Sun 20 July

5.45pm