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Soho presents: the verity bargate award/playwrights network
Soho's hunt for the most original and exciting new play.
Every two years Soho Theatre launches a national competition to find the best new play by an emerging writer. The winner will thrill London audiences with their imaginative, daring and relevant work.
Workshops
They aim to welcome writers from a variety of backgrounds and levels of experience to take part in a series of their workshops on the process behind creating a new piece of theatre for the VBA. Playwrights Network members are exclusively invited to the following workshops:
22 March, 7-9pm: Subtext - Language, Dialogue and Style
30 March, 3-6pm: Style and Structure
2 April, 7-9pm: The Pleasure Principle - Exploring Theatricality and Stage Fun
18 April, 3-6pm: Landscape, Context and Backdrop
17 May, 7-9pm: Masterclass
1 June, 3-6pm: The Politics of New Writing
14 June, 7-9pm: The Magic of Re-writes
Special workshop offer for Playwrights Network members:
Complimentary tickets for workshops (usually £15) and concessionary tickets to see a Soho production and event (subject to availability). To book call 0870 429 6883 and quote 'Playwrights Network'.
For further information about this year’s award and other workshops email will@sohotheatre.com
The Prize
£5000 (in respect of an exclusive option).
a residency at Soho Theatre.
the chance to have their play produced at Soho Theatre.
Writers may submit one unproduced, unpublished full-length play (not shorter than 70 minutes). There is no restriction to subject matter.
The award is open to any writer resident in the British Isles and Republic of Ireland.
For more information please visit www.sohotheatre.com
Deadline 6 July 2007
 
The Radio Play's the Thing
Nationwide Search For Radio Playwrighting Talent
Channel 4 Radio and 4Talent have launched their first ever nationwide search to find fresh drama-writing talent for commercial radio. If you've got a radio play in you they want to hear from you by. You could win the chance to:
• Develop your script.
• Get top industry mentoring.
• Win studio time and cash to help you produce it.
• Have it broadcast on Channel 4 Radio and Oneword Radio.
For more info on 'The Radio Play's The Thing' visit www.channel4.com/theplay.
Deadline March 26 2007
King's Cross New Writing Award 2007
Playwrights can send up to two unpublished and unperformed scripts to:
The Courtyard, 55 East Road, London, N1 6AH
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
Deadline is 1 May 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
Deadline 15 June 2007
Protect The Human Playwriting Competition
Protect the Human is a brand new playwriting competition run by iceandfire theatre in conjunction with Amnesty International UK. The aim of the competition is to explore individual stories of dis placement and conflict, highlighting the power of the 'ordinary' individual voice.
They are looking for plays that imaginatively interpret iceandfire's mission statement of:
"Exploring individual stories of dis placement and conflict."
Winning plays will receive a rehearsed reading at The Soho Theatre in London during Amnesty's 'Protect the Human' week, October 2007. The overall winner will be awarded £500 which will be increased to a standard commission plus dramaturgical support if the play goes into full production.
For full details and inspiration on where to begin please:
visit www.iceandfire.co.uk/protectthehuman
or email protectthehuman@iceandfire.co.uk
Initial submissions are welcomed between 1-14 May 2007
Nightswimming's Pure Research 2007
Pure Research 07
Call for Submissions
Nightswimming is a dramaturgical company dedicated to exploring the boundaries of dramaturgy and performance. They commission and develop new works of theatre, dance and music.
Nightswimming's unique Pure Research program provides space, money and resources to artists who are pursuing a provocative theatrical question.
If you have a theatrical question, and can pose it in terms of an experiment, then they're interested. They will supply studio space for up to three days, a $1000 fee for the lead researcher and a modest budget for artists and materials.
Pure Research projects will be held in Toronto in Autumn 2007
For more information contact us at http://www.nightswimmingtheatre.com.
Deadline 16 April 2007
NativeAliens- Short Stories Playwrights' Festival
NativeAliens Theatre Collective of New York City is soliciting plays for its 8th annual Short Stories playwrights' festival. A celebration of the playwright, Short Stories 8, will be a collection of short plays from the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender perspective that will be produced together for a week's run in late June of 2007.
This year's theme is "Urban View" so all plays should be relevant to gay life in the big city. Playwrights interested in having their play produced as part of this festival should email their plays, as attachments, to NativeAliens@gmail.com with SHORT STORIES in the subject line and include their name, address, phone number and email address. Plays should be a maximum performance time of 10 minutes, typed double-spaced in 10 point or larger font.
For more information about NativeAliens Theater collective, visit our website at www.NativeAliens.org
Deadline 13 April 2007
New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest
New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest is accepting scripts through 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 Guidelines and Application Form visit
www.PlaywritingContest.cjb.net
Deadline 30 June 2007
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