A 4-day masterclass with Luanda Casella
For experienced writers and playwrights

February 4, 2 – 6PM
February 5, 6 & 7, 10AM – 2PM
Location: The Post (110-750 Hamilton St., Vancouver) 

This program is free for selected applicants.
Application deadline December 8, 2025.
More details here or email joanna@playwrightstheatre.com.

“There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story, they say. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.”

Through discussion, research, and hands-on writing exercises, participants will explore deceptive discourse as both a literary technique and a tool for social persuasion. You’ll collect digital fragments, experiment with rhetorical manipulation, and craft short texts based on true, false, and fabricated facts. The course embraces a critical awareness of how storytelling governs perception—and what it means to write from within the confusion.

In this four-day masterclass, you’ll investigate The Unreliable Narrator—a literary figure whose persuasive charm, distortion, and self-delusion illuminate the unstable nature of truth today. Beginning with its origins in textual irony and literary theory, you’ll trace how this character evolved from the “madman” and “pervert” to contemporary voices like the influencer, spin doctor, and marketeer.