Crooked Lane Workshop
In the beautiful, historic setting of the Old School Room in Haworth, Rise & Howl produced a creative workshop with local artists and playwright, Nicole Joseph. Nicole has been commissioned by the Brontë Parsonage Museum to adapt scenes based on The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë.
Led by writer and director Chrissie Poulter, this group of actors explored and discussed scenes through group exercises, puppetry, sound scapes and more.
About Crooked Lane by Nicole Joseph:
An epic story of love, survival and the beauty of the natural world; desperate to stay hidden, a middle-class woman and her son flee from her narcissist husband. The breathtaking Yorkshire village she retreats to, bands together as storms, power cuts and technology outages batter them. When this anonymous woman blows in and haphazardly falls for her neighbour across the class divide, she finds hiding herself, her past and her son amongst this community she comes to rely upon, is harder than expected, but utterly essential.
We spent the day not only exploring a piece of brilliant new writing, but building new connections with artists in a welcoming and enthusiastic environment.
"There aren't very many opportunities like this. You don't necessarily meet creatives unless there are things like this set up for you. You may do a job with people, but there's not always a connection. Workshops like this build those connections... and also being in the North, and that being important! Opportunities for creatives based in the North."
-Jenny Morton, actor
"It was an amazing experience. Everyone just got stuck in. We did so much work in such a short amount of time, and for a playwright that's so useful. There's lots of new ideas and questions that have been uncovered. It gave me confidence in the play as well, that actors were lapping it up and able to make something quite magical with it!"
-Nicole Joseph, writer
