You Have A Voice Listen To It - Six Cat Studios StoryCraft Workshop

Story Craft: Playing the Sedulous Ape 21 Aug 2026 · 2:30pm–5:30pm

A three-hour workshop in copying, rebuilding, and playing — named after Robert Louis Stevenson’s practice of teaching himself to write by imitating the masters.

Participants copy a Shakespearean sonnet, a Basho haiku, and a Stevenson paragraph by hand, then rebuild each from memory and compare what changed. They watch and transcribe two scenes from a modern horror movie. In a live observation exercise — The Sitter — a performer reads aloud from Aldous Huxley while participants write what they see, then compare scenes across the room.

The second half moves from page to feet: small groups read, unpack, rehearse, and perform a short original scene built around subtext and a buried subject.

Participants keep the workshop booklet, which includes a full Story Craft reference appendix.