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Zeitgeist Theatre Grand Slam
London, UK
21 July 2008

Zeitgeist Theatre is seeking short, sharp and witty theatre plays for a popular and unique event in South London. Scripts must not be more than eight minutes long, require no more than five actors and have very basic lighting/sound/set requirements.

One group of actors perform each play then the audience votes for their favourite. The emphasis is on originality, variety and entertainment. Apart from a lot of fun, this is an excellent way to try out ideas on an audience before developing further.

PLEASE NOTE: ALL writers must be based in or around London and able to attend late-August. DEADLINE: 21st July 2008

Please send script or scripts with a short writer biog to info@zeitgeisttheatre.com

iceandfire

‘Protect the Human’
Playwriting Competition 2008

iceandfire create compelling theatre exploring stories of displacement and conflict. They are interested in imaginative and excellent theatre, but are not seeking scripts that are didactic, preaching or dogmatic.

For more information go to www.iceandfire.co.uk/protectthehuman; email protectthehuman@iceandfire.co.uk; call 0207 377 5299 or write to:
Protect the Human Playwriting Competition
iceandfire
Toynbee Hall
28 Commercial Street
London, E1 6LS

Window for submissions: July 28th-August 1st 2008

New PlayDay for Cloud Nine

Cloud Nine Theatre Company is inviting new scripts for its latest PlayDay
project, which will see two plays chosen for performance in front of a live
audience in the autumn. Plays should be 30 minutes in length and capable of performance with a cast of four. Only previously unperformed work should be sent.

Send scripts to or obtain more details from:
Peter Mortimer, Cloud Nine
5 Marden Terrace, Cullercoats
North Shields, NE30 4PD
Tel: 0191 2531901

Deadline for submissions: 31 Jul 2008

Short Plays about Elvis Wanted

Everyone has a story...if your's is for two actors, maximum 10 minutes long and about Elvis, then World Market in South Cumbria wants to read it! Chosen plays will be performed in pub venues and arts venues in the South Cumbria area.

For guidelines and an entry form e-mail John Hall, Project Co-ordinator at:
pubscripts2008@aol.com or visit www.wordmarket.org.uk

Entry fee: £4.50/£5.00 for non-members
Submission deadline: 31 July 2008

New Writers Wanted at Artificial Light

Artificial Light requires new short sketches/plays for possible entry into the Emergency Festival at the Greenroom, Manchester, Sept 2008.

Scripts should meet the following criteria:
Between 10 - 30 mins long
Interpreted or written specifically for a physical theatre style
Small, young cast
Unpaid/unfunded
Minimum props/scenery

For more information contact Mary G Hooton at: artificiallightmanchester@hotmail.com

Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2008

Assisted Places at Autumn Exchange
Wednesday 1st October to Thursday 2nd October 2008
The Byre Theatre, St Andrews

Autumn Exchange is the key meeting place for all those involved in the performing arts for children and young people. It offers a unique and enjoyable opportunity to view a snapshot of the latest productions available by Scottish based companies, to view works in progress and discuss their development opportunities and to hear from invited guest speakers.

Imaginate has a limited number of assisted delegate packages for Autumn Exchange for students, recent graduates and emerging artists and producers in Scotland. (£10 for assisted places -normal cost £80).

To apply:
To apply for an assisted place, please write to or email Jennifer Cummins by Friday 8th August telling us:
· Your name and contact details
· Your current position (if applicable)
· Your experience of children’s theatre
· Why you are interested in this opportunity and what you hope to gain from it (please write up to one side of A4)

For more information contact Jennifer at Imaginate, 45a George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2HT or email jennifer@imaginate.org.uk

every1sacritic
BBC Writer's Room
Script Competion

Producers Declan Hill and Simon Wright have just won a fringe award, for Best Encouragers of Talent, for their work developing sitcom scripts. They're now working with the Arts Theatre in the West End to promote new work and are actively looking for new scripts.

What they want to see: Sitcom scripts or character-based comedy of no more than fifteen minutes long that are self-contained, and whose premise, situation,and characters will be immediately grasped by an audience.

The deadline for scripts is August 15th.

To find out more and apply visit the website:

http://every1sacritic.com/Home.htmlacritic website

The Peter Wolff Theatre Trust Supports the Whiting Award

This award is given to a play of relevance and importance to contemporary life that is judged to be of potential value to British Theatre. The award value is £6,000.

To be eligible to enter for the award the play must be:

an original piece of writing (no adaptations or pieces of verbatim theatre).
produced by a company in the subsidised sector (includes Trusts and Foundations).
Performed for the first time between 1 August 2007 and 31 July 2008

Please send three printed scripts and a covering letter stating the production details to the address below.

The Peter Wolff Theatre Trust supports the Whiting Award
Everyman Theatre
13 Hope Street
Liverpool
L1 9BH
(Please note - only printed scripts, emailed scripts will not be accepted.)

Closing date for submissions: 18th August 2008

The Consortium: (Hampstead Theatre, The Royal Court London, Soho Theatre, Paines Plough, Tamasha Theatre Company, Clean Break, Nottingham Playhouse, Traverse Theatre, The Contemporary Theatre & New Writing Company, The Bush Theatre, Nuffield Southampton, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, and Birmingham Repertory Theatre.)

4Talent Awards

Deadline: 29 August 2008

Channel 4 is scouring the country for the UK’s most exciting young creative talent for the 4Talent Awards 2008. Categories include:

• Dramatic Writing (stage and screen)
• Dramatic Performance (stage, film & TV)
• Directing (film & TV)

All entrants must be under 30 on 31/12/2008. The completed online form and any posted supporting materials must be received by 5pm on Friday 29 August 2008.

To find out more go to www.4talentmagazine.com/awards www.4talentmagazine.com/awards>

Celebrating ten successful years as a presence in British Theatre, the Award is dedicated to providing inspiration and validation for playwrights of Caribbean or African descent who are resident in the UK.

The Award of £5000 is open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent,resident in the UK, for the best new stage play in English, which need not have been produced. Each entrant may submit only one play. (Television, radio and film scripts will not be considered.)

Applicants for the 2008 Award should send two copies of their play (plus a Stamped Self-Addressed Envelope for return of scripts), accompanied by a CV which includes the writer's Caribbean or African connection and a brief history of the play, to:

The Alfred Fagon Award
The Royal Court Theatre
Sloane Square
London SW1W 8AS.

The deadline is 31st August 2008.

For more information about the award visit the website:
www.alfredfagonaward.co.uk/site

Submissions Wanted - Rattling Tongue Theatre Company

Deadline: 31 Aug 2008

Rattling Tongue Theatre Company Ltd are seeking new full length plays for UK
premiere production.

Please send scripts to Daniel Wain, Rattling Tongue Theatre Company Ltd, 44 Fairfield South, Kingston-Upon-Thames, Surrey KT1 2UW. Please enclose an SAE for return if required.

For more information, see www.rattlingtongue.com

Female Playwrights With New Scripts Wanted

Velvet Ensemble aims to facilitate the work of women playwrights, directors, actors, stage managers, set, costume, lighting and sound designers. They are interested in hearing from female playwrights with new scripts.

Deadline for submissions: Ongoing
For more information please e-mail V at:
velvetensemble@yahoo.co.uk

Robert McLellan Award for Playwriting

This annual and unique play competition was established in 2007 to commemmorate the centenary of Robert McLellan's birth in celebration of his enormous contribution to Scottish Theatre. The prize for this competition is £1000, a 2 day development workshop with a professional director and actors, leading to a rehearsed reading on the Isle of Arran at the Arran Arts Festival , November 2008 and a full scale production of the play at Oran Mor, Glasgow in March 2009.

The competition asks for plays which have not been performed professionally as yet, are 50 minutes duration, are written for a maximum of 3 characters and are written in any living Scots dialect - urban or rural.

For more information and online entry go to: www.arranartsfestival.co.uk following the links to Play Competition or contact Heather Gough, Chairperson, Arran Theatre and Arts Trust at gough.carlo@virgin.net

Deadline for entries will be 30th September.

HighTide Festival

HighTide are looking for new full-length scripts from emerging writers. Writers may submit one unproduced, unpublished full-length play. There is no restriction on subject matter. HighTide welcomes international scripts, written in English, on the basis that all selected writers are available in the UK for the dramaturgy, rehearsal and production period from January to May 2009.

The play should be sent to the address below, and must have a title page with author's name, address and telephone number. Scripts will not be returned.

HighTide Festival
24a St John Street
London EC1M 4AY

The play must also be emailed to scripts@hightidefestival.org Please enter your name and title of script in the subject line.

Submission deadline: 1st November 2008

Acid Theatre Playwright Competition

The Acid Theatre Playwright Competition is looking for 30-60 minute monologues or 2 handers based loosely around the theme of 'Freedom of Speech in the Theatre' but with special emphasis on religion and religious influences in society.
The winning entry will be performed / produced by AcidTheatre.

Entries to be received by email to theatreacid@yahoo.co.uk
Entry deadline: 5 January 2009.

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	Playwrights' Studio at the Edinburgh Festivals 2008 Playwrights' Studio Bookshop and Information Point Open daily 11am - 7pm except Mondays August 5th-24th 2008 Traverse Theatre Foyer Conveniently located at one of the hubs of Festival activity, the Playwrights' Studio, Scotland invites you to visit our Bookshop and Information Point in the Traverse Theatre foyer. Find a variety of play scripts all available at bargain prices Consult our staff with any questions about Scotland's playwrights Pick up our listing of Festival plays by Scottish writers Click here to download our 2008 Festival Flyer ************************************************************* We look forward to welcoming you For more information please contact sonja@playwrightsstudio.co.uk Playwrights' Studio, Scotland Festival activity is partially sponsored by Nick Hern Books, publishers of some of the finest plays at the Edinburgh Festivals 2008 Click here for details about their Edinburgh Festival publications ------------------ -- --------------------- New Staff at the Playwrights' Studio Playwrights' Studio is pleased to welcome Claire Yspol to our office team. Claire will be joining us for 18 months as an Arts Mangement Trainee. Neil Coull, Claire Yspol, Sonja Lowe, and Julie Ellen will form the Playwrights' Studio Festival staff at the Traverse Theatre in August 2008. Do come by and say hi! Fuse Fuse is a unique Scotland wide initiative that puts new plays in front of the artistic directors at the country's top theatre venues. For more information on how to submit a play to Fuse please visit our website at: www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk/fuse.html Translation Resource** Details are available on our website for our Translation Resource. This fund is available for producing theatre companies outside the UK to translate plays from Scotland’s playwrights specifically for a public event; production or reading. It will be for a mechanical/literary translation into another language when the play has not previously been translated into that language. Deadlines for application are: 15 September 2008 15 December 2008 www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk
	Opportunities
	Zeitgeist Theatre Grand Slam London, UK 21 July 2008 Zeitgeist Theatre is seeking short, sharp and witty theatre plays for a popular and unique event in South London. Scripts must not be more than eight minutes long, require no more than five actors and have very basic lighting/sound/set requirements. One group of actors perform each play then the audience votes for their favourite. The emphasis is on originality, variety and entertainment. Apart from a lot of fun, this is an excellent way to try out ideas on an audience before developing further. PLEASE NOTE: ALL writers must be based in or around London and able to attend late-August. DEADLINE: 21st July 2008 Please send script or scripts with a short writer biog to info@zeitgeisttheatre.com iceandfire ‘Protect the Human’ Playwriting Competition 2008 iceandfire create compelling theatre exploring stories of displacement and conflict. They are interested in imaginative and excellent theatre, but are not seeking scripts that are didactic, preaching or dogmatic. For more information go to www.iceandfire.co.uk/protectthehuman; email protectthehuman@iceandfire.co.uk; call 0207 377 5299 or write to: Protect the Human Playwriting Competition iceandfire Toynbee Hall 28 Commercial Street London, E1 6LS Window for submissions: July 28th-August 1st 2008 New PlayDay for Cloud Nine Cloud Nine Theatre Company is inviting new scripts for its latest PlayDay project, which will see two plays chosen for performance in front of a live audience in the autumn. Plays should be 30 minutes in length and capable of performance with a cast of four. Only previously unperformed work should be sent. Send scripts to or obtain more details from: Peter Mortimer, Cloud Nine 5 Marden Terrace, Cullercoats North Shields, NE30 4PD Tel: 0191 2531901 Deadline for submissions: 31 Jul 2008 Short Plays about Elvis Wanted Everyone has a story...if your's is for two actors, maximum 10 minutes long and about Elvis, then World Market in South Cumbria wants to read it! Chosen plays will be performed in pub venues and arts venues in the South Cumbria area. For guidelines and an entry form e-mail John Hall, Project Co-ordinator at: pubscripts2008@aol.com or visit www.wordmarket.org.uk Entry fee: £4.50/£5.00 for non-members Submission deadline: 31 July 2008 New Writers Wanted at Artificial Light Artificial Light requires new short sketches/plays for possible entry into the Emergency Festival at the Greenroom, Manchester, Sept 2008. Scripts should meet the following criteria: Between 10 - 30 mins long Interpreted or written specifically for a physical theatre style Small, young cast Unpaid/unfunded Minimum props/scenery For more information contact Mary G Hooton at: artificiallightmanchester@hotmail.com Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2008 Assisted Places at Autumn Exchange Wednesday 1st October to Thursday 2nd October 2008 The Byre Theatre, St Andrews Autumn Exchange is the key meeting place for all those involved in the performing arts for children and young people. It offers a unique and enjoyable opportunity to view a snapshot of the latest productions available by Scottish based companies, to view works in progress and discuss their development opportunities and to hear from invited guest speakers. Imaginate has a limited number of assisted delegate packages for Autumn Exchange for students, recent graduates and emerging artists and producers in Scotland. (£10 for assisted places -normal cost £80). To apply: To apply for an assisted place, please write to or email Jennifer Cummins by Friday 8th August telling us: · Your name and contact details · Your current position (if applicable) · Your experience of children’s theatre · Why you are interested in this opportunity and what you hope to gain from it (please write up to one side of A4) For more information contact Jennifer at Imaginate, 45a George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2HT or email jennifer@imaginate.org.uk every1sacritic BBC Writer's Room Script Competion Producers Declan Hill and Simon Wright have just won a fringe award, for Best Encouragers of Talent, for their work developing sitcom scripts. They're now working with the Arts Theatre in the West End to promote new work and are actively looking for new scripts. What they want to see: Sitcom scripts or character-based comedy of no more than fifteen minutes long that are self-contained, and whose premise, situation,and characters will be immediately grasped by an audience. The deadline for scripts is August 15th. To find out more and apply visit the website: http://every1sacritic.com/Home.htmlacritic website The Peter Wolff Theatre Trust Supports the Whiting Award This award is given to a play of relevance and importance to contemporary life that is judged to be of potential value to British Theatre. The award value is £6,000. To be eligible to enter for the award the play must be: an original piece of writing (no adaptations or pieces of verbatim theatre). produced by a company in the subsidised sector (includes Trusts and Foundations). Performed for the first time between 1 August 2007 and 31 July 2008 Please send three printed scripts and a covering letter stating the production details to the address below. The Peter Wolff Theatre Trust supports the Whiting Award Everyman Theatre 13 Hope Street Liverpool L1 9BH (Please note - only printed scripts, emailed scripts will not be accepted.) Closing date for submissions: 18th August 2008 The Consortium: (Hampstead Theatre, The Royal Court London, Soho Theatre, Paines Plough, Tamasha Theatre Company, Clean Break, Nottingham Playhouse, Traverse Theatre, The Contemporary Theatre & New Writing Company, The Bush Theatre, Nuffield Southampton, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, and Birmingham Repertory Theatre.) 4Talent Awards Deadline: 29 August 2008 Channel 4 is scouring the country for the UK’s most exciting young creative talent for the 4Talent Awards 2008. Categories include: • Dramatic Writing (stage and screen) • Dramatic Performance (stage, film & TV) • Directing (film & TV) All entrants must be under 30 on 31/12/2008. The completed online form and any posted supporting materials must be received by 5pm on Friday 29 August 2008. To find out more go to www.4talentmagazine.com/awards www.4talentmagazine.com/awards> Celebrating ten successful years as a presence in British Theatre, the Award is dedicated to providing inspiration and validation for playwrights of Caribbean or African descent who are resident in the UK. The Award of £5000 is open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent,resident in the UK, for the best new stage play in English, which need not have been produced. Each entrant may submit only one play. (Television, radio and film scripts will not be considered.) Applicants for the 2008 Award should send two copies of their play (plus a Stamped Self-Addressed Envelope for return of scripts), accompanied by a CV which includes the writer's Caribbean or African connection and a brief history of the play, to: The Alfred Fagon Award The Royal Court Theatre Sloane Square London SW1W 8AS. The deadline is 31st August 2008. For more information about the award visit the website: www.alfredfagonaward.co.uk/site Submissions Wanted - Rattling Tongue Theatre Company Deadline: 31 Aug 2008 Rattling Tongue Theatre Company Ltd are seeking new full length plays for UK premiere production. Please send scripts to Daniel Wain, Rattling Tongue Theatre Company Ltd, 44 Fairfield South, Kingston-Upon-Thames, Surrey KT1 2UW. Please enclose an SAE for return if required. For more information, see www.rattlingtongue.com Female Playwrights With New Scripts Wanted Velvet Ensemble aims to facilitate the work of women playwrights, directors, actors, stage managers, set, costume, lighting and sound designers. They are interested in hearing from female playwrights with new scripts. Deadline for submissions: Ongoing For more information please e-mail V at: velvetensemble@yahoo.co.uk Robert McLellan Award for Playwriting This annual and unique play competition was established in 2007 to commemmorate the centenary of Robert McLellan's birth in celebration of his enormous contribution to Scottish Theatre. The prize for this competition is £1000, a 2 day development workshop with a professional director and actors, leading to a rehearsed reading on the Isle of Arran at the Arran Arts Festival , November 2008 and a full scale production of the play at Oran Mor, Glasgow in March 2009. The competition asks for plays which have not been performed professionally as yet, are 50 minutes duration, are written for a maximum of 3 characters and are written in any living Scots dialect - urban or rural. For more information and online entry go to: www.arranartsfestival.co.uk following the links to Play Competition or contact Heather Gough, Chairperson, Arran Theatre and Arts Trust at gough.carlo@virgin.net Deadline for entries will be 30th September. HighTide Festival HighTide are looking for new full-length scripts from emerging writers. Writers may submit one unproduced, unpublished full-length play. There is no restriction on subject matter. HighTide welcomes international scripts, written in English, on the basis that all selected writers are available in the UK for the dramaturgy, rehearsal and production period from January to May 2009. The play should be sent to the address below, and must have a title page with author's name, address and telephone number. Scripts will not be returned. HighTide Festival 24a St John Street London EC1M 4AY The play must also be emailed to scripts@hightidefestival.org Please enter your name and title of script in the subject line. Submission deadline: 1st November 2008 Acid Theatre Playwright Competition The Acid Theatre Playwright Competition is looking for 30-60 minute monologues or 2 handers based loosely around the theme of 'Freedom of Speech in the Theatre' but with special emphasis on religion and religious influences in society. The winning entry will be performed / produced by AcidTheatre. Entries to be received by email to theatreacid@yahoo.co.uk Entry deadline: 5 January 2009.
	Events
	Handle With Care II London, UK 17 July 2008 Soho Theatre presents this follow up open access workshop led by Jennifer Farmer. Handle With Care II will focus specifically on the challenges of creating a dramatic piece from the stories and experiences of vulnerable groups. The session will offer practical ways in which to address some of the questions that writers face when creating such work; whose story is being told and why; is it being truthful; how to artistically engage with personal material; how to write for vulnerable groups AND theatre audiences. For further information on forthcoming Open Access Workshops and the workshop leaders please visit the Soho Theatre website www.sohotheatre.com Script It Part 1 - Develop A Script For Radio London, UK 22 Jul 2008 until 24 Jul 2008 Led by award winning playwright, Hattie Naylor, this intermediate course will cultivate ideas for radio playwriting. Participants will look at how to create and develop a script, and learn editing tips to help sharpen their work. For more information and to book, see www.spreadtheword.org.uk or call 020 7735 3111 Selling Your First Script London, UK 26 Jul 2008 On this intensive one-day Euroscript workshop for a small group, practical exercises and personal feedback will be given to help prepare a film/TV script for the market, track down the right cinema and television producers and on how to make the best possible deal. For more information, see www.euroscript.co.uk/ The TV Comedy Forum 18th September 2008 Royal Opera House, London The men and women who hold the purse strings to the broadcasters’ comedy budgets will effectively decide the fate of your precious project. Fortunately, the TV Comedy Forum brings together top commissioners to tell us what’s tickling their taste buds in an increasingly competitive, multiplatform environment. You will hear key commissioners from major broadcasters tell us what their looking for in the pitch and the script. Combining business critical advice, inspiration, fantastic networking opportunities and a laugh or two, can you afford to miss out? Chaired by Jon Plowman, this year’s must attend industry events features the some of the most influential names in comedy. For full details and to book your place amongst comedy elite, visit www.tvcomedyforum.com or call 0845 056 7566. Writing Theatre for Younger Audiences: A European Perspective Totleigh Barton Arvon Centre, Sheepwash, Devon Mon 24 – Sat 29 November 2008 Special price : £239/£299 This course will have an international flavour and draw on best European practice by seeking to uncover what is at the heart of the best work, look for its roots and trace the soul journey of the Child at its centre. The focus will be on developing and deepening your own writing practice through workshops, one-to-one tutorials, readings, work ‘on the floor’ and private writing time. Please note that there are just 16 places available on this course; applications should be made as soon as possible. For further details or to apply for the course please email Rina Vergano at aldenvergano@clara.netInclude your full name and address, email and telephone numbers, how you heard about the course, and put “WTYA Arvon course” in the subject box.
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E-BULLETIN: July 2008

We look forward to welcoming you
For more information please contact sonja@playwrightsstudio.co.uk

E-BULLETIN: July 2008

We look forward to welcoming you For more information please contact sonja@playwrightsstudio.co.uk

We look forward to welcoming you
For more information please contact sonja@playwrightsstudio.co.uk