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E-BULLETIN: April 2009

Welcome to Playwrights' Studio, Scotland's April e-bulletin.

These bulletins contain information about future Playwrights' Studio projects and activities, as well as many other opportunities available to playwrights across the UK and internationally from a range of sources.

At the very bottom of this bulletin is information on the Scottish Society of Playwrights and also the Playwrights Network which covers all areas of the UK.

We would appreciate any feedback you have on our E-bulletin and if you have any information that you would like to be circulated to our subscribers, please email this to info@playwrightsstudio.co.uk by the end of the first week of each month.

 

 

Studio News
Writer's Projects-Apply Now
Partner Projects-Apply Now

WASPS Working Space Availble
Save This Date-Illuminate 2009
Shop for the Studio
Fuse Script Reading Service

Read more...

Opportunities
Imaginate Seeking Artist in Residence
Sports Cafe Lunchtime Theatre

Artists Taking The Lead
National Theatre of Scotland Script Reading
Wildfire
Call for Directors/drama practitioners
The TippingPoint Commissions
BBC Drama Writers Academy
The Changing Face
Fulbright Commission Grant
MA Screenwriting Bursaries-London Film School
New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest
Sussex Playwrights' Club Competition
The Group-Call for Submissions
Peggy Ramsey Grants for Playwrights

Read more...

Events
Young Playwrights
Connecting with Stories
Method and Madness
RomCom Evening
Write A Ten-Minute Short
Evening of Horror and Noir
Introduction to Script Editing
Encounter-Playwriting Workshop
An Introduction to Playwriting
Playwriting Weekend Course
Everything Else-Playwriting Workshop
10Acity: Pushing the Boundaries
Project DIY
Resources for Writers Available to Download

Read more...

What's On
Bullet Catch by Rob Drummond
Gregor MacGregor by Al Seed
Scratch-various writers
Ink-various writers
Wildfire-various writers
Singin I'm No A Billy He's A Tim by Des Dillon
Hoors by Gregory Burke
Words, Words, Words-various writers
After Mary Rose by D Jones
The Art of Swimming by Lynda Radley
Interiors by Vanishing Point
The Ducky by D.C. Jackson
Love's Time's Beggar by Ankur Production's Adult Theatre Workshop

Read more..


Studio News
 
 

Playwrights' Studio, Scotland's
Writer's Projects

Apply Now

 

The Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland is expanding our engagement with professional writers. We want to stimulate, provoke, support and enable them to develop their work in a way that best suits their creative process. This is part of our commitment to a flexible, accessible process where the writer’s needs are at the heart of our activity.

Applications are now open for Writer’s Projects. You, the professional playwright can apply for up to £3,250 to support any aspect of your writing development.

A limited number of Writer’s Projects are available. In selecting which ones to support we will consider;

  • The originality and ambition of the ideas
  • The creative development of the playwright
  • The career benefit to the playwright

Where other sources of funding are applicable we would encourage applicants to consider those alternatives.

Here are some examples of ways in which you might like support:

  • Time on a writing residency
  • Research for your writing
  • Contracting a director and actors to workshop your script
  • Inclusion of other artists in a collaborative process (musicians, furniture makers, dancers, visual artists etc.)

We are however hoping that you will have ideas beyond these suggestions.

We will run the project for you, providing administrative support and handling all the financial management, and will work closely with you to ensure that the project successfully meets your needs.

Application Criteria
Applications to the Writers’ Project scheme must be submitted by individual playwrights. You can apply if you:

  • have had 2 or more professional productions
  • are living in or are from Scotland

Projects which already have funding will not be considered.

Deadlines
There are 3 deadlines for application submissions:
30 April 2009 (for projects commencing between May-Aug 2009)
30 August 2009 (for projects commencing between Sept-Dec 2009)
30 November 2009 (for projects commencing between Jan-March 2010)

How to Apply
Please visit the www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk to download an application form. Completed applications should be sent to Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland, CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD. Applications may also be sent via email to info@playwrightsstudio.co.uk

If you wish to discuss your project with us prior to submitting an application we invite you to call our office (0141 332 4403) or send an email to info@playwrightsstudio.co.uk


 

Playwright's Studio, Scotland's
Partner Projects

Apply Now

 

The Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland is committed to working in partnership to enable activity for playwrights across Scotland and beyond. As part of this commitment we have launched Partner Projects.

Organisations can apply for up to £6,000 to deliver activity with playwrights. Applicants must have matching funds (see Criteria below).

A limited number of Partner Projects are available. In selecting which ones to support we will consider;

  • The benefit to playwrights
  • Originality and ambition
  • The organisation’s commitment to developing new playwriting
  • Public benefit
  • Sustainability of activity

Here are some possible elements of projects for which you might like support:

  • A season of new play readings
  • A writers’ group or workshop series
  • A writer in residence

We are however hoping that you will have interesting ideas beyond these suggestions.

The projects will be managed by the Organisation in regular communication with the Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland. These projects can take any form as long as the development needs of the writers are at the heart of the process.

Application Criteria

  • Organisations must be formally constituted with a bank account of their own.
  • Organisations must be based in Scotland or planning to work with writers who are Scottish or based in Scotland.
  • 50% of the funds applied for must be matched by the Organisation. 50% of matching funds can be in kind support.

Deadlines
There are two deadlines for application submissions:

  • 15 May 2009
  • 30 September 2009

How to apply
Please visit the www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk to download an application form. Completed applications should be sent to Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland, CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD. Applications may also be sent via email to info@playwrightsstudio.co.uk

If you wish to discuss your project with us prior to submitting an application we invite you to call our office (0141 332 4403) or send an email to info@playwrightsstudio.co.uk

 

 

WASPS Working Space Available

April-July 2009

 

We have secured a studio space for writers at WASPS studios on Hanson Street for a trial from April to July this year.

We are offering it to writers to book for one month blocks. There is 24hr access to the building so we will be letting it to up to three writers at a time, as working hours may not necessarily overlap if someone prefers to work at night.  The space is not suitable for workshops, rehearsals or readings; it is situated in a quiet corridor shared with visual artists.

There is a charge for this facility. To book your time slots or if you have any questions or would like to discuss any details please do call or email Claire Dow at 0141 332 4403 or claire@playwrightsstudio.co.uk


 
Save This Date
Illuminate 2009
 

Thursday 25 June 2009
CCA, Glasgow

We want to encourage debate and new thinking around the subject of cultural diversity to inspire established and aspiring artists, decision-makers, and opinion formers in theatre writing, commissioning, programming, and casting.

More information about our symposium will be posted on our website in the next few months.


 

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Fuse
Fuse is a unique Scotland wide initiative that puts information about new plays in front of the artistic directors at the country's top theatre venues. Plays submitted to Fuse will be read and critiqued annonymously by theatre professionals. This feedback is made available free of charge to the playwright.

For more information on how to submit a play to Fuse please visit our website at: www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk/fuse.html


Opportunities
 

Imaginate Seeking Artist in Residence
Location: Edinburgh, UK
Deadline: Monday 27 April 2009

Imaginate is delighted to invite applications for an Artist in Residence, with a focus on performing arts for children and young people. The post will provide opportunities for working, training and learning about all aspects of the performing arts for children and young people, at home and abroad.

The deadline for applications is Monday 27th April 2009. Interviews will be held on Thursday 30th April in Edinburgh. Candidates must be available on this date.

For further information and to apply please visit the website www.imaginate.org.uk
or write to: Alice McGrath, Development Director, Imaginate, 45a George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2HT. E: alice@imaginate.org.uk


Sports Café Lunchtime Theatre
Location: Glasgow, UK
Deadline: ASAP

The Sports Café on Sauchiehall Street is looking to start a new lunch time session in May – doing two or three themed lunches a week. They are currently seeking proposals from writers or theatre groups who have a piece of theatre prepared that they would like to try out in front of an audience.

If you have a 30 minute show that you be interested in submitting for consideration please contact Heather Offord at glasgowfunctions@thesportscafe.com as soon as possible.


Artists Taking The Lead
Location: Scotland, UK
Deadline: 29 May 2009

The Scottish Arts Council is looking for great ideas for a commission to take place in Scotland to make its mark on the cultural landscape in 2012 and beyond. The selected commissions will showcase the best of our nation’s creativity and celebrate the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games across the UK.

Artists will be offered:

  • one commission of up to £500,000, including a development grant for each of the shortlisted artists, to turn their ideas into finished proposals
  • the chance to be profiled in the national campaign promoting the 12 commissions as the best of our nation’s creativity 

The Scottish Arts Council will establish a judging panel for Artists taking the lead by using their pool of specialist advisors, external artists and experienced Scottish Arts Council staff.

For more information or to submit your proposal please visit the website www.artiststakingthelead.org.uk/en/scotland


National Theatre of Scotland Script Reading
Location: Scotland, UK
Deadline: No deadline

National Theatre of Scotland takes theatre all over the country and beyond, working with existing and new venues, artists and companies to create and tour world class theatre.

If you are a writer who is Scottish or based in Scotland and are interested in writing for the stage, they want to connect with you.

Last year, the National Theatre of Scotland produced four plays by first time writers, set up day-long development workshops for eleven more, and offered two emerging writers a paid attachment with the company.

National Theatre of Scotland is looking for new playwrights who are inventive and fearless. They want to be stimulated, challenged and excited by writers with a strong theatrical imagination and a nose for complex and urgent subject matter.

If that sounds like you and you would like them to connect with your work, please look at the website to find out how get your play read or seen www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/newwork or contact Frances Poet, Literary Manager
on 0141 227 9015 or at frances.poet@nationaltheatrescotland.com

 


Wildfire
Location: Edinburgh, UK
Deadline: No deadline

Wildfire offers writers, poets, MCs, rappers - anyone who wants to have a go - a chance to take the Traverse 10 Minute Challenge. They'll give you a starting point - like “do a piece for three actors and a tuba” - and you come up with a completely new 10 minute work to be performed in the Bar Cafe.

A new challenge every month, new artists taking a chance, with a new resident performance poet to host, plus professional actors and a director to work with. If you’re an artist who’d like to take the challenge, contact Cheryl Martin cheryl.martin@traverse.co.uk or phone 0131 228 3223 for more details.


Call for Directors/drama practitioners
Location: Bath, UK
Deadline: 24 April 2009

Following upon the success of the Write Team Project in 2008, Directors/ Drama Practitioners are invited to apply to conduct a drama residency in schools leading to a performance of the pupils own work in The Egg Theatre, Bath in February & March 2010. The aim of the Write Team Project is to use innovative creative writing practice as a tool to engage pupils who ‘keep a low profile; invisible children who are quiet and undemanding‘.

Format: This post will requires a minimum of one weekly residency during one half term (6- 7 weeks) leading to a stage production in The Egg Theatre, Bath.
Fee: £2,100 per residency to include school residency (including performance) plus travel, accommodation and subsistence
Timescale:  March 2010
Support:  This project will be administered by Bath Festivals and managed by the Write Team Project Coordinator, Emma Metcalf.

For further information please visit the literaturetraining website http://www.nawe.co.uk/metadot/index.pl?id=40368&isa=DBRow&op=show&dbview_id=2300

To apply please send your CV and proposal to:
Louise Betts, Bath Festivals, 3rd Floor, Abbey Chambers, Kingston Buildings, Bath BA1 1NT or louise.betts@bathfestivals.org.uk


The TippingPoint Commissions:
an invitation to submit a proposal

Location: London, UK
Deadline: 4th May at 5pm.

The TippingPoint Commissions are a new initiative for professional artists who wish to create new performance work in the context of climate change.

The theme of climate change is intended to provide a stimulus and a springboard for the commissions. Artists are invited to submit projects that stimulate audiences towards the radical and imaginative thinking necessary to comprehend a world dominated by climate change. We are not looking for a didactic exposition of the subject. Rather, we are seeking proposals that offer creative reflections on a world that is rapidly changing and on humanity’s role and responsibilities within it.

Proposals can be made by practitioners of any performance discipline, as individuals or groups, by artists on their own or together with partners or producers. The maximum award will be for £30k. Proposals must be submitted by Monday 4th May at 5pm.

You can download the appropriate criteria and an application form at: www.tippingpoint.org.uk


BBC Drama Writers Academy
Location: Elstree, UK
Deadline: 5 May 2009

Applications are now open for this year's BBC Drama Writers Academy. The Academy will take up to eight writers, and train them over 12 months to write for some of the BBC's most popular series such as Doctors, EastEnders, Holby City, and Casualty.

To be eligible for this scheme, writers must have already had at least one professional drama commission in film or television, or a radio drama script produced, or one theatre piece performed professionally. The course begins with a three month training course in writing for Continuing Drama Series which will consist of a number of workshops and lectures accompanied by intensive writing exercises and analysis. During this period each writer will be commissioned to write a broadcast episode of Doctors.

For more information please visit the website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunity/writers_academy1.shtml


The Changing Face
Location: London, UK
Deadline: 29 May 2009

With prizes totaling well over £1000 Newham Libraries and Arts service in association with London’s leading writing organisation, Spread the Word, announce this borough-wide writing competition for poetry, short stories and stage-plays. The competition is limited to writers living in Newham. Short stories should be no more than 1000 words. Poems should be no more than 42 lines and short plays should be 30 mins long with a cast no biggger than 5.

The theme for the competition is ‘The Changing Face’ and the submitted work, in some way, should reflect this in its content. Aimed at writers of all levels the competition seeks to capture the essence of London’s most diverse borough with additional awards for under-represented groups such as the Under 21’s, the Over 60’s and those with English as a Second Language.

For further information regarding eligibility requirements and entry procedures please contact the Newham Writer in Residence at Mark.Norfolk@newham.gov.uk or visit the website www.newham.com


Fulbright Commission Grant
Location: UK
Deadline: 31 May 2009

US-UK Fulbright Commission is offering its annual £20,000 grant to a UK citizen from an under-represented background to pursue a Master's degree in film directing, screenplay, production, cinematography, scoring/composition at any accredited US institution.

For more information please visit the website http://www.fulbright.co.uk/



MA Screenwriting Bursaries-London Film School
Location: London, UK
Deadline: 1 June 2009

Skillset Screen Academy status enables the London Film School to offer MA Filmmaking bursaries and Screenwriting bursaries for qualified UK/EU students who would not have been able to do the course for reasons of finance. The MA Filmmaking degree is based on the conviction that students benefit from a professional working base in all technical departments and craft skills and so it trains 'filmmakers' whose

MA Screenwriting Bursaries cover course fees except for £6,969 total for one year which the students have to pay themselves. Living costs of £2000 will also be awarded to the student.

For more information regarding eligibility requirements and application procedures please visit the website www.lfs.org.uk


New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest
Location: New York, USA
Deadline: 30 June 2009

The New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest is accepting scripts through June 30, 2009 for new works that:
1) Enhance self-realization
2) Support peace and social justice
3) Foster new understanding of minority issues that focus on racial, ethnic and gender discrimination both in the United States and abroad
4) Empower youth to build healthy inner foundations
5) Educate to gain further insight into healthy social/emotional living
6) Shed new light on religious, spiritual, and cultural differences and issues
7) Build respect for cultural expression and identity in a world that is experiencing rapid globalization
8) Explore the widening gap between the values this country was founded on and the values we present to the world today

For more information regarding eligibility requirements, submissions fees and procedures please visit the website www.playwritingcontest.cjb.net


Sussex Playwrights' Club Competition
Location: Sussex, UK
Deadline: 31 July 2009

Sussex Playwrigts' Club have launched their 2009 Full-Length Play Competition 2009, for stage plays of ninety minutes duration. The first prize is £250, plus a reading of the winnnig play at a meeting of the Playwrights' Club. Second and third prize winners will recieve £150 and £100 respectively. Entry fee of £5.

For more information regarding competition rules and entry procedure please visit the website: www.sussexplaywrights.com


The Group—Call for Submissions
Location: London, UK
Deadline: No deadline

The Group consists of Equity members, whose monthly meetings at Theatre Royal, Stratford East focuses on reading & giving feedback on new plays, both theatre, television & radio scripts with the playwright present at the reading - followed by an in depth discussion from all attendees, both cast members & other memebrs of The Group, both actors & writers.

We welcome submissions of new plays & new members, both writers & actors . For more information please visit www.thegroup-scriptreaders.com or contact Shenagh Govan at shenagh.govan@thegroup-scriptreaders.com


Peggy Ramsey Grants for Playwrights
Location: UK
Deadline: No deadline

Writers who have had at least one full length play prouduced professionally for an adult audience could recieve grants to afford them time or facilities such as laptops, to write again for the stage, from the Peggy Ramsey Foundation.

The Trustees meet regularly and delays for six-eight weeks can be expected for a definite answer. Appeals, which are usually acknowledged, should be brief, made by the writer concerned, preferably in a simple letter stating the need and the amount requested. A full CV of the applicant must be enclosed. Scripts and previous publicity should not be sent.

For more information regarding eligiblity guidelines and application procedures please email: laurence.harbottle@harbottlecom or visit the website www.peggyramsayfoundation.org



Events

Young Playwrights
Scottish Youth Theatre
Location: Glasgow, UK
Dates: Sat 25- Sun 26 April 2009

This course will help young writers (ages 16-25) to develop their existing skills whilst learning more about writing for performance. They will receive tuition and feedback from a professional playwright who will offer guidance in developing scripts for stage, TV, film or radio.

The deadline for applications is 1st March 2009. For more information please visit www.scottishyouththeatre.org or call 0141 552 3988.


Connecting With Stories
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Location: Edinburgh , UK
Dates: March 2009-May 2010

 
Storytelling has the ability to unlock creative potential, to improve speaking and listening skills, to enable the sharing of memories and experiences, to encourage understanding, awareness and inclusion, and to strengthen professional and local communities.
 
With the first signs of spring comes the Scottish Storytelling Centre's new Connecting with Stories training and development programme. The programme spans the period March 2009 to May 2010 and covers a rich variety of themes, ranging from beginners' storytelling skills to transitions and emotional literacy.

For more information or to book a place at the workshops please visit the website: www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk
To download the workshop programme, please click here.


Method and Madness
Dealing with Writing
Location: Kent, UK
Dates: 25 April-26 April 2009

In the creative process, the right brain provides raw material that is chaotic, unformed and random: the left brain supplies structure and formulates ideas in a logical way. 

Writing plays is necessarily both left brain and a right brain activity. This workshop will look at ways of making the relationship between the two approaches a productive one.

Venue: Royal Hotel, Deal, Kent
Dates: Saturday 25 April and Sunday 26 April 2009
Cost: £175

For more information or to book a place please call 01304 367625, email info@dealingwithwriting.com or visit the website: www.dealingwithwriting.com


RomCom Evening
Euroscript
Location: London, UK
Date: 5 May
RomCom can vary from up-beat and joyful all the way to sharp, sassy and even darkly cynical. In this evening, we survey the comedy field and look at the three key types of comedy - what they require and how writers need to approach each of the three in a very different way. We discuss how RomCom can be mangled in the wrong hands, and how a writer who understands the genre can create great, satisfying enjoyable cinema. Please note, places are strictly limited to ensure personal feedback.

Venue:
London Welsh Centre, 157/163 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8UE
Date: Tuesday May 5,
Time: Registration 6.00pm,Workshop 6.15 to 9.30pm
Cost: £45 (concs £41)
For more information please contact Charles Harris, charles.harris@euroscript.co.uk or visit the website: http://www.euroscript.co.uk/genrecourse.html


Write a ten-minute short
Euroscript
Location: London, UK
Date: 10 May 2009
This one-day course focuses on narrative storytelling, not experimental film-making. Intensively hands-on, by the end of the day you’ll have completed a rough first draft of a ten-minute script. And you’ll have improved your basic scriptwriting skills in order to give you greater confidence when writing longer lengths. If you are currently stuck on your short film script, please bring it along to workshop it in our exercises.  If you aren't working on a script at present, you will brainstorm new ideas for a film.

Venue:
The Red Room, Walkabout, 136 Shaftesbury Avenue, London  W1D 5EZ
(on Cambridge Circus, two minutes walk from Leicester Square tube)
Date: Saturday 10th May 
Time: Registration: 10.15am, Workshop: 10.30am to 4.30pm
Cost: £85 (£75 concessions;  on this course we are offering the concessionary rate to members of WGGB, DGGB, Writernet and WIFTV.)
For more information or to book a place on this course please contact Fenella Greenfield at 07515381586, via email at fenella.greenfield@euroscript.co.uk or visit the Euroscript website at www.euroscript.co.uk/ten_minute_short.html

 

Evening of Horror and Noir
Euroscript
Location: London, UK
Date: Tuesday May 12 2009

Writing a high intensity serious story can be difficult for a writer who is not familiar with the detailed demands of the genres involved. This workshop will help writers tease out which genre or genres are at work in your own projects, and give advice and feedback on how to strengthen their effect and make them work to the advantage of the script.

Venue: London Welsh Centre, 157/163 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8UE
Date: Tuesday May 12
Time: Registration 6.00pm, Workshop 6.15 to 9.30pm
Cost: £45 each (concs £41)
For more information please contact Charles Harris at charles.harris@euroscript.co.uk or visit the website http://www.euroscript.co.uk/genrecourse.html


Introduction to Script Editing
Euroscript
Location: London, UK
Dates: Tuesdays 9-30 June 2009
This four-evening, three-hour session course sets out to introduce you to the experience of what it's like to be a script editor. By script editing actual screenplays and scripts, and by working interactively, you'll get a first-hand experience of what it's like to actually do the job of script editing:
-How to help writers develop their ideas from treatment to outline to script
-How to move a writer on from a problematic first draft
-How to edit, alter and improve the later and final stages of the script

Venue:
London Welsh Association, 157/163 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8UE
Dates: Tuesday 9th June-Tuesday 30th June
Time: 6.30pm - 9.30pm
Cost: £185 (£175 concessions)
For more information please email Andrew Clifford andrew.clifford@euroscript.co.uk or visit the website: www.euroscript.co.uk/script_editing.html


Encounter-Playwriting Workshop
Traverse Theatre
Location: Edinburgh, UK
Date: 13 May 2009
Cost: £5 (£3.50)

Leading set designer and artist Jeremy Herbert leads an informal talk for playwrights, directors and stage-practitioners, in which he shares his creative process and talks about his work with new plays.

For more information please visit the website www.traverse.co.uk/shows_encounter.htm


An Introduction to Playwrighting
Live Theatre
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Dates: Wednesdays 13 May-17 June 2009

Live Theatre have announced that they will be running the popular Introduction to Playwrighting course again this year. The five-week course begins on 13th May and runs on Wednesday evenings between 6pm and 9pm in the Studio Theatre at Live. The dates for all sessions are as follows: 13th May, 20th May, 3rd June, 10th June, 17th June. (Please note there is no session on Wednesday 27th May)

If you would like to reserve a place on the course please email degna@live.org.uk with a response to the following questions.

  • What (if anything) have you written before?
  • Write about a play that you really like; why do you like it?
  • What do you hope to get out of the course?

(Note: the answers you give do not form part of a selection process, they just give us an insight into the interests and needs of people taking part in the course.)


Playwriting Weekend Course
Ceridwen Centre for Workshops and Groups
Location: Ceridwen Centre, Wales
Dates: 15 May - 17 May 2009

Ceridwen Centre in the Teifi Valley, West Wales, is the location for 'Write a Play in a Weekend', a residential course for new and established playwrights. Award-winning writer Emily Hinshelwood, will lead participants through the process of writing a short play for the stage.

Venue: Ceridwen Centre, Pen-y-bane Farm, Velindre, Llandysul SA44 5XE
Date: 15-17 May 2009
Cost: £145 per person, includes full board

For more information please email info@ceridwencentre.co.uk or visit the website www.ceridwencentre.co.uk


Everything Else-Playwriting Workshop
Traverse Theatre
Location: Edinburgh, UK
Date: 16 May 2009


The Traverse’s new Pearson Playwright in Residence, Sam Holcroft, leads a writers’ lab for emerging playwrights that offers advice and discussion on ‘Everything Else’ – the areas you encounter once you’ve written your play and are approaching its production.

For more information please visit the website www.traverse.co.uk


10Acity:Pushing the Boundaries
Script
Location: Coventry, UK
Date: Saturday 16 May 2009


Forging a career as a writer requires drive, determination and a certain degree of staying power. 10Acity is a targeted workshop programme designed to support writers along that path, to challenge pre-conceptions of the industry and to identify talented writers in the West Midlands who would benefit from further development.

The upcoming workshop entitled Playing With Convention: Creating Non-Scripted Drama is lead by Carran Waterfield . Delivered in conjunction with Triangle Theatre's production of The Last Women, this workshop will interrogate the inspiration, structure and creation of a performance event that sits between the scripted and non-scripted.

Venue: Learning Space 2, The Herbert, Jordan Well, Coventry
Date: Saturday 16 May 2009
Cost: £75 (£60 concessions)

For more information please contact Catherine Edwards at catherine.edwards@scriptonline.net
or visit the website: http://www.scriptonline.net/index.htm
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Project DIY
RSAMD Summer Course 
Location: Glasgow, UK
Date: 13-17 July 2009
Cost: £180

Lead by Ali de Souza, this course is a great opportunity for young people (ages 13-18) to develop their script-writing, character building, performance, staging and storytelling skills.

Over the week participants will work in small groups with expert facilitation from a professional writer and director who will guide you through the creation, development and presentation of your writing through to performance.


Resources for Writers Available to Download
literaturetraining
Location: UK
Dates: Ongoing

Planning a project and funding it by experienced fundraiser and assessor Steve Dearden is an invaluable, straight-talking guide to developing your project idea into a successful funding application which is available now as a free download from www.literaturetraining.com

literaturetraining produces a wide range of free professional development resources for the literature sector including a ‘National Resources’ info sheet listing useful organizations, websites, magazines, publications and information sources; in-depth guides on topics such as professional development planning, mentoring and evaluation; and the specially commissioned "How did I get here?" features in which writers and literature professionals at different stages in their careers talk frankly about their professional journeys and who and what has helped them get to where they are today.

All literaturetraining resources are available as free downloads from www.literaturetraining.com

What's On
New Writing in Scotland

Bullet Catch by Rob Drummond
Behaviour@The Arches
Wed 22 April-Sat 25 April 2009
http://www.thearches.co.uk/BHVR-Rob-Drummond-Bullet-Catch.htm

Gregor MacGregor by Al Seed
Behaviour@The Arches
Wed 22 April-Sat 25 April 2009
http://www.thearches.co.uk/BHVR-Al-Seed-Gregor-MacGregor.htm

Scratch-various writers
Behaviour@The Arches
Thurs 23 April 2009
http://www.thearches.co.uk/BHVR-Scratch.htm

Ink-various writers
Traverse Theatre
Sun 26 April 2009
http://www.traverse.co.uk/show_detail.php?id=591

Wildfire-various writers
Traverse Theatre
Mon 27 April 2009
http://www.traverse.co.uk/show_detail.php?id=564

Singin I'm No A Billy He's A Tim by Des Dillon
Citizens Theatre
Wed 29 April-Tues 2 May 2009
http://www.citz.co.uk/?node_id=1.2.1&prod_id=308

Hoors by Gregory Burke
Traverse Theatre Company/Ustinov, Bath/Tron Theatre @ Traverse Theatre
Fri 1 May-Sat 23 May 2009
http://www.traverse.co.uk/shows_hoors.htm

Words, Words, Words-various writers
Traverse Theatre
Mon 4 May 2009
http://www.traverse.co.uk/shows_wordswords.htm

After Mary Rose by D Jones
Magnetic North @ Traverse Theatre
Wed 6-Sat 9 May 2009
http://www.traverse.co.uk

The Art of Swimming by Lynda Radley
Citizens Theatre
Tues 12 May-Sat 16 May 2009
http://www.citz.co.uk/?node_id=1.2.1&prod_id=309

Interiors by Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point @ Tron Theatre
Tues 12 May-Sat 16 May 2009
http://www.tron.co.uk/whatson.php?e=327

The Ducky by D.C. Jackson
Borderline Theatre Company @ The Tron Theatre
Tue 19 May-Sat 23 May 2009
http://www.tron.co.uk/whatson.php?e=328

Love's Time's Beggar by Ankur Production's Adult Theatre Workshop
Ankur Productions @ Tron Theatre
Wed 20 May-Fri 22 May 2009
http://www.tron.co.uk/whatson.php?e=334


 

The Playwrights' Network

The Playwrights Network links regional organisations which work to develop playwrights (and sometimes writers working in other media too) across the UK.Click on the map below to find an organisation in your area.

http://www.writernet.co.uk/php/map.php?id=294&ID=

The Scottish Society of Playwrights (SSP)

A professional members' organisation that represents, develops and promotes the interests and craft of professional Scottish playwrights working within the theatre sector.

To become a member or for more information about the Society, please see their website www.scottishsocietyofplaywrights.co.uk
or email administrator@scottishsocietyofplaywrights.co.uk


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Photo Credits Header Image: Dying For It attached with production credits below.Playwright: David Cosgrove Company: SYT Productions Photographer: Anthony Brannan