Something to glance off: Writing Space

This article describes the first Writing Space project, held in the Department of Performing Arts, University of Winchester. The purpose of this project was to test a structure that would engage diverse writers in an inclusive, non-hierarchical conceptual dialogue, leading to the production of a series of short, experimental texts. The article considers the relationships produced between participating writers/artists and performers, as well as the dialogues that took place within and between the performed texts themselves. The article is presented as a series of linked speculations about the range of relationships taking place between texts, writers and performances. Commenting on some of the more conventional thinking within the UK theatre, I argue that greater awareness or interest in the collaborative and dialogic element within theatre and performance writing practices could lead to a transformation of dramaturgical strategies among and between writers and other artists.