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Plays about human rights wanted - rolling submission
Everyone Has the Right is a rolling script submission service for plays with human rights at their heart. A joint initiative with Amnesty International UK, Everyone Has the Right provides a natural home for writers exploring human rights stories to create surprising and entertaining theatre.
But how can human rights be transformed from formalised, aspirational ideals to real, breathing situations that form the basis for excellent theatre?
Please send your script, short synopsis (no more than 200 words) and cover sheet (download from the website) to: Everyone Has the Right, iceandfire, Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial Street, London, E1 6LS.
You will receive an emailed report within two months of submission
Find out more on the ice and fire website.
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One Night Stands (London) seek plays for readings, rolling submission
"Everyone should experience a One Night Stand at some point in their lives and here’s your chance…"
One Night Stands Rehearsed Readings are calling for submissions of new plays for the
re-launch of their monthly rehearsed reading event at The Blue Posts in Soho from February 2010.
This is an opportunity to have your short or full-length play directed and performed by some of the most promising up-and-coming directors and actors in London in front of a live audience. This is also an opportunity to get feedback on the script in a relaxed and warm environment.
Scripts should be less than two years old and can be of any length or topic. We do ask to limit the number of characters to five. Please also only send in one script per round of submissions.
It is not our policy to offer feedback on individual scripts. However, if the script is selected there is an opportunity to gather feedback from the audience after the reading. This can be as focussed or relaxed as you feel necessary in consultation with your director.
Although we aim to read scripts and respond within six months, we often receive vast numbers of submissions so please bear with us if the wait’s a little longer than this.
ONS Readings, 7 St Peter’s Road, London, W6 9BA
If you would like the script returned please also include SAE.
For further information please visit our website or email us.
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Sunday Surgery – script development and staged performances - Rolling submission
Every last Sunday of the month from March 28th, at The Others, 6-8 Manor Road, Stoke Newington.
msft offers a Sunday Service for experienced as well as novice writers, where you can develop creative ideas, build characters and push your plot to its dramatic limits. We are not here to ‘teach’ you how to write, we are here to make what you write come to life. Once you have created a story, msft will provide space to put it on its feet, a professional director and trained actors to bring it to life in front of an audience. Successful Sunday Surgery work will then be developed further and considered for selection for msft’s festivals of new work, Write Side of the Brain and the DYS-PLA festival, to take place at a top London Venue in November 2010.
We welcome 10-60 page submissions from writers all year round – please note that submissions received by the 1st of each month will be considered for that month’s Sunday Surgery. msft also encourages submissions from writers with a learning difference such as dyslexia .
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NEW! Smallfish Theatre: seeking submissions
Smallfish Theatre are now, for a limited period, accepting submissions for new plays and theatrical pieces for UK production.
We are a committed production company with many years experience in UK theatre and we are seeking new and exciting scripts for production in 2010 & 2011.
We are particulaly interested in receiving submissions of diverse formats and forms. We are committed to developing work with playwrights input.
Your submissions could be new untested works or pieces that have been trialled on a small scale.
Submissions by post only should:
*be in a bound A4 format
*include a plot synopsis and cast list
*include a playwright biog/CV
*Can include any further supporting material
WE ARE HAPPY TO RETURN ALL REJECTED SUBMISSIONS BUT PLEASE NOTE WE CAN ONLY RETURN YOUR SUBMISSIONS IF YOU INCLUDE A PREPAID ADDRESSED ENVELOPE
All submissions should be sent ASAP to:
The Artistic Director, Smallfish Theatre, Sparkhouse Studios, Ropewalk, Lincoln, Lincolnshire. LN1 2RN. UK
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Script writer, Pantomine, Magic Moment Productions - deadline 31 March 2010
Writer required for 2 hander pantomime (actors would double/triple up on characters). To be about 45 mins long including songs. Payment offered. Please email Sasha for more information.
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Sabbatical opportunity for a woman over 40 – deadline 12 April 2010
"We wish to help a clever woman whose work will be of wide benefit, who needs and deserves a 'break' and who could not normally afford such a sabbatical opportunity. Amaze us."
The Hosking Houses Trust is seeking to appoint one or more writers for its twelfth arts residency. The appointment is for a minimum of two months and a maximum of one year and applications are now invited.
The appointment is restricted to women aged forty or more.
The appointee must write in English and have the legal right to be in the UK.
It is required that the appointee has a contract for publication or performance of the intended work.
The appointee is expected to have published significant work on any subject, or to have worked, broadcasted, taught, lectured or acted extensively in the English language. This Residency is for a woman who could use the opportunity to start or complete interesting or innovative work about any subject whatsoever (see below) that might otherwise be postponed, abandoned or take a long time to complete.
For more information visit the website.
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NEW! Short Play Submissions, for a night on 1 May.
Made From Scratch are putting together a Scratch Night on Saturday the 1st of May. We will be showcasing five short plays under the theme of Politics, in anticipation of the predicted general election on May 6th. We are looking for submissions from new writers.
The plays must be under 15 minutes, no more than three characters, must not have been performed elsewhere and fit the theme of "Politics". The top five submissions will be performed by our group of actors and the writers will be invited to see their work on stage.
This is an exciting opportunity to get your work on stage and network with a new and expanding company. Email us your plays or any questions.
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NEW! Liverpool based writer for 2toned forthcoming studio theatre performance.
2toned are a award winning contemporary theatre company who are looking for a creative and orignal writer who thinks 'outside the box' . This position will require the writer to work with performers so an collaborative approach is essential. All work is devised from scratch growing organically through the rehearsal period.
Rehearsals take place every Sunday afternoon in Liverpool you would be needed one sunday per month this may change closer to the performance.
Please show expressions of interest by email
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DYS-PLA festival seeks plays by dyslexic playwrights - deadline 1 May 2010
msft are looking for 60 min plays by dyslexic theatre writers to produce as part of the DYS-PLA festival taking place in November 2010 at the THEATRO TECHNIS Theatre. We are able to offer between 2-4 night run and will provide actors, directors, rehearsal space (limited), and full publicity. The plays can be on any subject the writer wishes to dramatise, and we welcome scripts about learning differences, hidden differences and other neo-diversity topics. The deadline for first draft submissions is the 1 May 2010. Scripts submitted in advance of this deadline will have the opportunity for development with an experienced director/dramaturg. All scripts will be chosen by 1 August 2010. Please email submissions.
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High Tide Festival, deadline 15 May 2010
HighTide exists to
•Source, develop, and produce the latest emerging talent in new writing.
•Invite a selection of mentor figures from the leading established artists in the industry to work with the company.
•Premiere new work at their annual HighTide Festival in Suffolk, and support the life of this work beyond the Festival with national and international transfers and tours.
They are now open for play submissions for the HighTide Festival 2011, and are looking to fully produce and premiere new works by emerging playwrights.
HighTide welcome international scripts, written in English, on the basis that all selected writers are available in the UK for the dramaturgy, rehearsal, and production period.
Deadline: 15 May 2010
To find out more and apply, visit the HighTide website.
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NEW! Writers, collaborative project - I digress
After contributing to a group show in 2009 at the Grosvenor Pub in Stockwell, we are looking for writers to join us in a collaborative residency.
The project will involve writers responding to the work of illustrators, and vice versa.
Contributions will be brought together in a limited edition zine and there will be a one-night launch and exhibition at The Grosvenor towards the end of July.
If you would like to take part, please email us with two examples of your work or a link to your website, saying a bit about why the project has caught your attention (no more than 200 words please).
See the blog for more information.
[updated: 18/3/10]
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