TWP 2009's Blog

New shows to look out for………….

twp2009 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:27:15 +0000

We recommend that you go and see Snookered by Ishy Din produced by Tamasha Theatre Company as it tours round the country. Read about Ishy and his journey writing this play here: http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1471094_cue-for-a-play—-taxi-driver-gets-big-break-in-new-theatre-career

Also at the top of our list and coming up very soon is BLIND SUMMIT’S THE TABLE which comes to Lakeside Arts Centre in Nottingham next week on 31 January and 1 February.

Kate Chapman

Theatre Writing Partnership

Chief Executive and Artistic Director

kate@theatrewritingpartnership.org.uk

0115 9474361

Get down to Cambridge for some winter inspiration!

twp2009 — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:48:44 +0000

The excellent Menagerie Theatre Company are working towards their bi-annual festival of new writing for theatre in Cambridge this summer but they have an exciting weekend of workshops for writers happening at the end of this month (26 – 29 January).

We recommend you check out this link for more details and if you can get to Cambridge for the workshops – you won’t be disappointed!

www.menagerietheatre.co.uk/hotbedfest/

Kate

Lincoln hosts festival of new performance this January.

twp2009 — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:07:18 +0000

This New Year Lincoln Performing Arts Centre hosts the first ever newvolutions event; a micro-festival that celebrates the best in new theatre, dance and performance made here in Lincolnshire.

From 4-21 January, LPAC is opening all of its studios to artists, dancers and theatre-makers so that they can have the freedom and space to experiment and evolve their new ideas before testing them out on audiences.

This is a unique opportunity to support new and established practitioners working in the region with space and access to resources such as lighting and sound technicians, a crucial way of collaborating in these difficult economic times. As part of the newvolutions festival on Thursday 19 January LPAC will also be hosting an informal Open Space event specifically for professional performing Arts organisations and artists in Lincolnshire to explore how collaboration can empower them to continue making work in a time of uncertainty for the arts.

The final work in progress performances will take place over four days from the 18-21 January, in a creative, informal atmosphere where audiences will have the opportunity to share thoughts with the artists and help them develop their ideas further.

Festival performance listings:
Wednesday 18 January
New Voices
Lincoln School of Performing Arts Drama Students
6:00pm
Shooting Fish
7:00pm
Nursery Rhymes
Mike O’Hare
8:00pm
Thursday 19 January
Open Space Event
6:30pm
Friday 20 January
DirtMarket
(you don’t even know the name of) The Thing You’re Stealing From Me
6:30pm
Shift
Kerry Francksen
7:30pm
Works in Progress
Lincoln School of Performing Arts Dance Event
8:30pm
Saturday 21 January
Little Cuckoo
Rhubarb Theatre
3:30pm
Copter
Nina Kov
6:00pm
The Bear
Capo Fero Ensemble
7:00pm
A Permanent change
Jimmy Osborne
7:30pm
Coffee Shop Culture
Adaire to Dance
8:00pm
Tickets are £2 for all events (Open Space on 19 January is Free).

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For more information contact:
Phelix Cullen
01522 837604
pcullen@lincoln.ac.uk
www.lpac.co.uk
Lincoln Performing Arts Centre
University o Lincoln
Brayford Pool
LN6 7TS

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR PILOT Night Thursday 29th March @ mac Birmingham, West Midlands – CO PILOTED BY FIERCE FESTIVAL

twp2009 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:56:21 +0000

Deadline for submissions Mon 30th Jan 5pm

PILOT IS THE CELEBRATED SCRATCH EVENT WHERE THEATRE MAKERS GET TO TEST OUT NEW IDEAS IN FRONT OF A LIVELY, SUPPORTIVE CROWD.

Fierce Festival Artistic Directors Harun Morrison & Laura McDermott join the PILOT team as guest curators for March Pilot at mac, Birmingham. This Pilot will also be part of the launch of Fierce Festival 2012 and will be complemented by activity happening across the building through out this Thursday evening.

Fierce is annual festival of live art that takes place across Birmingham in a mix of established art venues, found sites and public spaces. The forthcoming Fierce Festival runs from Thurs 29 March – Sun 8^th April. You can find out more about us at. . . www.wearefierce.org

We hope that Pilot applicants will make the most of the spaces on offer which include the cinema, Cannon Hill Park itself, the bar and the shared connnecting spaces in the building. The event will be a peripatetic one, happening across mac. Here’s a bit of info about the spaces available, please demonstrate how you would work with one of the sites in your proposal.

1. Hexagon (http://www.macarts.co.uk/hires/hexagon-theatre/) – This is an old-school lecture hall. Could be perfect for a sly performance-lecture?

2. Cinema (http://www.macarts.co.uk/hires/cinema/)

3. Cafe bar

4. Weston Room – Used as painting room and workshop space, this could be perfect for something, installative, intimate and messy.

5. There are plenty of undefined public spaces: corridors, stairways, the lift what could you do in one of these?

6. Outside – MAC has the good fortune to be situated within the bucolic Cannon Hill Park, lakes, geese, bandstands. . . (http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cannonhillpark)

Whether you classify yourself as established or emerging we want to hear from you…

If you have 10-15 minutes of new research visit www.pilotnights.co.uk and fill out an online application to be part of a night which promises a fantastic range of audience to engage with your new and growing ideas.

In return we offer a small fee, video and stills documentation and an audience happy to stick around in the bar afterwards and tell you exactly what they thought.

Deadline for Submissions 5pm Monday 30th January 2011.
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Kate Chapman

Theatre Writing Partnership

Chief Executive and Artistic Director

kate@theatrewritingpartnership.org.uk

0115 9474361

Act 2 – next deadline 15th January

twp2009 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:13:03 +0000

Call for submissions

twp2009 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:11:28 +0000

Call for submissions

Developing writers and their work

Back for a fifth year running, Tobacco Factory Theatre’s Script Space is an open competition that invites submissions of new, unperformed one-act plays from UK-based writers for tailor-made development opportunities.

It’s very simple, really: we’re looking for exciting writing from exciting writers whom we’d like to work with further. We will select up to three plays to take forward for development. What form that development takes will depend on the plays themselves; it’ll be bespoke, to ensure maximum benefit to the writing and the writer. Previous development work has included: dramaturgical advice, R&D time with actors and a director, a rehearsed reading or small-scale production.

Submission guidelines

We’d much rather receive your play by email. Please send a single Word or PDF attachment (no CVs or synopses, please) to scriptspace@tobaccofactory.com

, putting the play title in the subject box and including your full name, address and contact details in the email. Entries will be judged anonymously so please don’t include your name on the script itself.

Do note that we are anticipating a high volume of submissions, so please bear with us. Deadline: 31 January 2012

About Script Space

Script Space has gone from strength to strength since its inception four years ago. So far the initiative has worked with over twenty emerging and established writers, bringing their new plays before an audience for the first time in the form of script-in-hand readings. In 2011 Script Space IV took place in collaboration with Bristol Festival of Ideas and realised a new capacity for and commitment to bespoke development opportunities, producing a small-scale run of Digits by Tamsin Walker

, directed by Emma Callander, and carrying out development work on The Girl from Sparta Road by Martin Lytton with director Lee Lyford and students from City of Bristol College.

[Pics show Digits at the Brewery (Nov 2011) and The Girl from Sparta Road in development (Oct 2011)]

Young Writers: travel bursaries available

twp2009 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:09:21 +0000

The Noel Greig travel bursary is now open for applications – full details here: http://noelgreigtravelbursary.wordpress.com/

noel-greig-travel-bursary-2012.pdf Download this file

STOP PRESS! New Perspectives offering a great chance for writers. Deadline is the end of January.

twp2009 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:15:47 +0000

Writers are the lifeblood of theatre and New Perspectives has an enviable track record of finding and nurturing the very best new regional writing talent, as well as providing early career opportunities for writers to see their work performed.

This year we’re running another DREAM UP writing competition, and we’re inviting East Midlands based writers to submit short scripts in response to the following question, posed by Tyrone Huggins in his play The Honey Man which we’re co-producing with Derby LIVE in Spring 2012.

‘How can I remember things I never knew?’

We are looking for scripts that are 10-15 minutes in length, and feature a maximum of 3 characters.

We’re offering cash prizes of £500 for the winning script and £100 each for five runners up.

Plus, a selection of the best entries will be performed as part of a summer 2012 touring production by our new STEP UP Creatives training ensemble, and/or as one of a series of audio recordings which we will publish on our website.

More information, application forms, and full competition rules are available on our website athttp://www.newperspectives.co.uk/DREAMUP_Writers.

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Kate Chapman

Theatre Writing Partnership

Chief Executive and Artistic Director

kate@theatrewritingpartnership.org.uk

0115 9474361

You know that script you wrote over Christmas? Here’s where to send it……

twp2009 — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:43:18 +0000

We’ve had more hot news of opportunities for playwrights to share their work and hear it read, this time from Off The Fence Theatre Company in Leicester and Quirksome Theatre in Nottingham:

Following their successful performance of four new plays at Leicester Market on 11th December, Off the Fence Theatre Company are now looking for scripts for their Performance without Decor season at Leicester’s Y Theatre in March and April 2012.

Scripts may be on any subject in any style and run for any length from as little as ten minutes to an hour and a half. The only criteria are the pieces must be performed with limited props and minimal lighting, scenery and technical requirements.

Off the Fence are an umbrella theatre company dedicated to the production and performance of new, scripted theatrical work providing an opportunity for actors, writers, directors and technicians to share ideas and develop. Performances are in traditional, secondary and non-theatre space, making pieces accessible to new and existing audiences. Off the Fence encourage and facilitate interest and development in the art of dramatic theatre.

If you you are aware of any playwrights who would like their work considered for this exciting new venture please ask them to submit their script and contact details to script-editor@off-the-fence.com. Every submission will receive a response and feedback.

The next deadline for submissions to Quirksome Theatre’s Act 2 is Sunday January 15th, for a February performance! For details and to download an application form, goto http://www.quirksometheatre.co.uk/act-2.php

A MESSAGE FROM THE GRAMOPHONES

twp2009 — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:43:09 +0000

Hello friends and colleagues,

The Gramophones are very excited to announce that they will be attempting to make a journey from Lands End to John o’Groats using as many different forms of transport as is humanly possible. This will be for research and development for a new piece of theatre ‘End to End’

We will limit ourselves to just 18 days to complete the journey. This is the average number of days it has taken world record breakers on ALL different forms of transport to make this journey (according to Wikipedia).

We want to gather as many followers as we can, so please follow our project on our website www.gramophonestheatre.com

Although we have the wonderful support from Theatre Writing Partnership’s Making Tracks bursary, we are still need a wee bit more cash to make the journey possible. It would be fantastic if you could help make this unusual and daring journey possible by pledging a five pound boat, a ten pound boat or whatever you can afford! Pledge here…

http://www.wefund.com/project/end-end