Broken Structures

This Alternative Development Session looks at how stories shift when their structure is taken apart. We’ll use A Christmas Carol 🎅  as a starting point so we can both analyse it as a finished piece and to treat it as raw material that can be reshaped and rebuilt.

Working in small groups, you’ll experiment with reordering scenes, swapping perspectives, and bending the rules of the narrative. What happens if you begin with the ending? What if the central character changes completely? How does the meaning shift when the structure is broken and put back together in a new way?

This exercise is about exploring how fragile and flexible stories can be. It shows how structure influences character, theme, and impact and how breaking away from traditional forms can create unexpected results.

It’s open to all creatives. Whether you’re a filmmaker, writer, performer, or artist, this session gives you a chance…