Laura K Deal

Reimagining Traditional Tales Storytelling Workshop

with Laura Deal

Learn the craft of reimagining

In this workshop, we’ll explore ways to breathe new life into familiar fairy tales and make obscure folk tales more accessible to a modern audience. We’ll play with different ways to reimagine stories and brainstorm new variations, and we’ll also cover which tales work best for this process and which to avoid.

What's Included:

Discussion of folk tale types
Exercises you can use after the workshop
Pointers on the crucial elements of a story

Insights

Laura brings her own experience to this workshop, having recrafted several stories by putting tales in new settings, changing the point of view character, and diving into a character’s motivation in order to discover new possibilities within the story. She provides a playful mood to the work, which allows participants’ creativity to flourish.

What People Are Saying

“Laura Deal is a compassionate teacher and leader. I attended a workshop of hers at Sharing the Fire Storytelling Conference which, through poetry, provided many insights into the creation of written work. This could then be used for performance work. The tools Laura used were simple, but the results were powerful, and as varied as you wanted to make them. Her gentle leading, probing and the asking of questions brought out some high quality work from all of the participants. Thank you Laura.”

Simon Brooks

Storyteller, Humorist, Performance Artist, Raconteur