Writers’ Room: Beats per Minute
Part of the Writers' Room Festival.
Written by Laura Woodward.
“Who wouldn’t want their dad to live? Who wouldn’t want the worrying and the waiting to end?”
Starr has her sh*t together. Or so it seems. She works hard, works out and is queen of karaoke. But sometimes it feels like she lives a double life. Starr knows she needs to break the patterns of her past, but to do so, she must first revisit it.
Coming to terms with the death of a parent is hard. Laura Woodward’s Beats per Minute is an expression of love, grief, joy and pain. It’s about the importance of human connection, the inevitability of death and the joy of living.
Beats per Minute was developed as part of the Marlowe Theatre Writers’ Room Advanced Playwriting course.
Contains themes on grief.
Laura Woodward bio
Laura Woodward is an actor, director and writer from Manchester.
Her acting work includes Kelly in After Hours (Craig Cash, Sky1), Laura in People, Places and Things (National/West End/St Ann’s NY) and Steph in A Girl in School Uniform (New Diorama/Leeds Playhouse). She recently directed Birds Don’t Run. They Fly by Lauren-Nicole Mayes (Hope Mill) and regularly participates in new writing workshops.
In 2024, she used an Arts Council DYCP to develop her writing skills and is a participant of Marlowe Theatre Writers’ Room led by Leo Butler.
She’s excited to present her debut play beats per minute.