"How to start?" It's a question every writer struggles with. Where do words, characters, ideas come from? "And where am I in the picture? What all that has to do with me?" Playwriting as one of the oldest artistic expressions deals more than any other writing with the body and physicality. It communicates differently than prose or poetry or an essay. In the two-days' workshop we explore different forms for our material and how to know, that this is the right beginning.

Over two days, participants will work through a series of exercises, writing prompts, and guided discussions led by renowed playwright and stage director Sasha Salzmann that open up questions about where our material comes from, how we find our own voice within it, and what it means to commit to a first line, a first image, a first presence on the page.

The workshop does not require previous experience in playwriting. It is open to writers of all backgrounds - those who work in prose, poetry, or essay; those who have never written for performance; those who write a great deal and those who are only beginning.

This event is part of European Literature Days, an annual literary festival organised by the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in Vietnam.