NewWriting NewWorlds Festival 2007
The NewWriting NewWorlds Festival is currently accepting scripts and non-text based submissions for this year's new writing festival at Gilmorehill G12 in June, as part of Glasgow West End Festival.
Plays selected will receive development with the festival dramaturgical team and a full production at the NewWriting NewWorlds Festival.
Performances should be less than 30mins in length, require no more than 6 performers and have minimal set and staging.
Plays must be typed double spaced, and pages numbered. Non text based submissions should be contained in a proposal no more than two pages long.
All submissions require a cover letter with the title of the play or proposal, author's name or main proposal contact, address, contact telephone number and email address.
Please send three copies of your submission along with your cover letter to: Suzi Simpson
Artistic Director
NewWriting NewWorlds 2007
c/o Winters
Flat 0/1
25 Belmont Street
Glasgow
G12 8ER
If you have any queries contact newwriting_newworlds@yahoo.co.uk
Deadline: 15 March 2007
Call for dramaturgs & readers
If you're interested in new writing and literary development, and you'd like to further your skills in this area, please email newwriting_newworlds@yahoo.co.uk explaining your interest and previous experience.
Verity Bargate Award 2006/07
The Verity Bargate Award was established in 1982 to honour the memory of Soho Theatre's cofounder, Verity Bargate, and is presented biennially to identify and celebrate the most outstanding play by an emerging playwright. The Award offers the winning playwrights a prize £5,000 and the chance to have their play produced at Soho Theatre.
The Award presents a great opportunity to find and nurture more writers at an earlier stage of their career. As such the Verity Bargate Award has become a unique stepping stone for writers and a vital tool for Soho.
Workshops
They are holding writing workshops on 20 February, 15, 22 March, 2, 19 April, 17 May, 7–9pm.
Workshops will explore the process behind writing a script and are open to all. Tickets: £15 (£10).
Closing date 6 July 2007
For up to date details see www.sohotheatre.com
King's Cross New Writing Award 2007
Playwrights can send up to two unpublished and unperformed scripts to:
The Courtyard Theatre, 10 York Way, King's Cross, London, N1 9AA by 2 April 2007.
The winning playwright will be contracted to The Courtyard Theatre. Each entry must include a fee of £5 per play.
Visit www.thecourtyard.org.uk/kingsxwriting.htm
Deadline is 2 April 2007
The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust award 2008
The purpose of the award is, in particular, to help the development of emerging practitioners in the field of experimental theatre and, in general, to encourage the new generation of creative artists. Support is aimed at assisting artists in the transition from fringe to studio spaces.
Two grants of up to £2,500 for research and development will be awarded to two individuals/companies. Following the showing of the result of this R&D period in November 2007 a production grant of £27,000 will be awarded to one of them. The chosen production will have a run at The Pit as part of barbicanbite08 in September 2008.
For further details see www.osbttrust.com
Deadline 30 March 2007
The McLellan Award 2007 Play Competition
2007 marks the 100 anniversary of the birth of Robert McLellan one of Scotland's greatest dramatists. The Arran Theatre and Arts Trust, in partnership with Robert McLellan’s family, the community of Arran and North Ayrshire Council, will work together to bring to a new generation, through drama, visual arts and music, the beauty, wit and vigour of McLellan’s work and, at the same time, strive to further his hopes and aims by encouraging and sponsoring new work in Scots by young Scottish playwrights.
The prize for the competition is £1000, and a production of the play by Nutshell at the McLellan festival in September.
Plays should be 60 - 90mins long, be in any form of Scots or Scots dialect - living Scots - rural or urban, and be capable of being performed by no more than 5 actors.
More details and an entry form are available at www.mclellanfestival.com
Dramaturgy Case Studies
Rosalind Haslett is a second year PhD researcher at the University of Ulster. She is writing about the role of dramaturg in contemporary UK theatre and is currently searching for case studies to include in her thesis. The case studies will be included in the PhD thesis in order to illustrate how dramaturgs are included in theatre-making processes. These case studies will focus upon individual productions and will be conducted by interviewing the production team and observing their work.
Rosalind is particularly concerned with exploring how the dramaturg functions in the creation of new work for the theatre, particularly work which may not be text-based. She is looking for exciting, innovative and challenging projects that include input from a freelance dramaturg and will be reaching production before October 2007.
If you have been, or are part of, a process involving a dramaturg, please contact Rosalind on Haslett-R1@ulster.ac.uk
Culture 2007 - call for proposals
The European Commission has announced a conditional call for proposals under the new Culture 2007 programme.
The general objective of the programme shall be "to enhance the cultural area shared by Europeans and based on a common cultural heritage through the development of cultural cooperation between the creators, cultural players and cultural institutions, of the countries taking part in the Programme with a view to encouraging the emergence of European citizenship".
For further details see www.culture2007.info
Closing date is 28 February 2007
Six Minute Theatre Competition
Six Minute Theatre is a competition looking for original new dramatic works no more than six minutes in length. These can be complete plays or self contained scenes from longer plays.
The winner will receive a prize of £200 and the best entries will be performed at a special event in London in 2007. Entry fee is £5
For details visit www.totalbeast.co.uk/sixminute.html
Closing date: 20 March 2007
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