Finding stories and characters in drama games – an interview with author and actor Elizabeth Bruce
Elizabeth Bruce is a storyteller on the page and on the stage. She began acting at the age of 25, began writing in her 40s and has continued productively on these two creative channels ever since.
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She’s founded a theatre group and theatre workshops that teach writers drama techniques to create truthful characters and plots. She has a podcast here in the Substacks with her husband Michael Oliver,
. She’s published short fiction and a novel. Her first short story collection, Universally Adored & Other One Dollar Stories, was published in January by Vine Leaves Press. Why are they one-dollar stories? That comes from a theatre game. I’ll let Elizabeth explain.