Using any kind of narrative, we will apply ideas of not only a time frame, but also some kind of ticking down of time as a fun way to experiment with tension and urgency in stories. Being able to visualize the clock itself, and plotting narrative movement around the clock, instead of on a timeline, gives the writer a clear picture of how to speed up or slow down their story and when. What happens when a car is running out of gas, when the bomb is going to go off, when graduation looms, when any time-based aspect of the story is inevitably running down?

Class meets in person Tuesday, December 8, 10 am - noon.

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Jenny Magnus is a writer, performer, composer, musician, director, and teacher who is a founding co-Artistic Director of the Curious Theater Branch, now in its’ 36th year. In 2014, Observations of an Orchestrated Catastrophe: Plays and Performances , 9 plays and performances produced over 25 years, was published by Jackleg Press and had a 2nd printing in 2021. Magnus has released 17 albums of music with various ensembles, including the recent The Times We’ll Have with The Crooked Mouth. She was named, with artistic partner Beau O’Reilly, to the Chicago Theater Hall of Fame in 2024 by New City Chicago. She is currently working on her first long form narrative.