Now that this year’s submissions for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting have closed, the award organisers tell us that they have received 1002 entries, which is amazing.
What is also amazing is that this prize is the very first which celebrating and championing female and non-binary playwrights in the UK and Ireland.
The Women’s Prize for Playwriting is open to writers who are female or non-binary, aged sixteen or older, and resident in the UK, Republic of Ireland or in a British Overseas Territory, or have a British Forces Post Office address.
The winner receives £12,000 and a full production of their play.
A longlist will be produced in October, a shortlist/ finalists in November, and the winner announced in mid-December.
We look forward to the shortlist, and remember- its never too early to start thinking about your script for next year’s prize!
Submissions for the 2023 Women’s Prize for Playwriting are now open!
Astonishingly, it is the very first prize celebrating and championing female and non-binary playwrights in the UK and Ireland.
Submit your full-length play before 5pm on Monday 17th April for the opportunity to win £12,000 and a full production of your play.
The Women’s Prize for Playwriting is open to writers who are female or non-binary, aged sixteen or older, and resident in the UK, Republic of Ireland or in a British Overseas Territory, or have a British Forces Post Office address.
After the applications close, a longlist will be produced in October, a shortlist/ finalists in November, and the winner announced in mid-December.
Wishing every applicant a satisfying and enriching experience!
You can find out more and access the entry forms here
On Wed 6th July from 7.00pm to 8.30pm BST, The British Library hosts an interesting free event, held both in-person and simultaneously available online, which explores the unjustly hidden contributions of black artists in the world of theatre.
Black theatre making is often written out of the archive, credited to white theatre practitioners, or catalogued in ways that make it hard to find. But because Black theatre makers were frequently at the forefront of movements for change, their work was regularly subject to censorship and surveillance and collected in state archives.
This panel discussion and performance explores Black theatre making in the Lord Chamberlain’s Plays Collection, an archive which owes its existence to British theatre censorship laws requiring theatre managers to obtain a license to stage a new play up until 1968.
Come and find out how Black theatre practitioners are talking back to archives of censorship to recover the rich heritage of Black theatre making.
The event will feature staged readings from theatre manuscripts and censored reports held in the Lord Chamberlain’s collection and a chance for audience members to consider what they would censor if these plays were performed today.
This event will take place at the British Library. It will be simultaneously live streamed on the British Library platform. Tickets may be booked either to attend in person (physical), or to watch on our platform (online) either live or within 48 hours on catch up. Viewing links will be sent out shortly before the event.
The event is organised by the Eccles Centre forAmerican Studies at the British Library. The Eccles Centre exists to support and promote creative research and lifelong learning about the Americas, through the world-class collections of the British Library.
Mark your calendar for Out of the Wings Festival 2022, July 19th to July 23rd at Omnibus Theatre!
Out of the Wings (OOTW) will return to the Omnibus Theatre for its sixth annual festival of theatre from Spanish- and Portuguese- speaking worlds. Over five nights, presenting readings of plays in English translation and in the UK for the first time.
Alongside workshops, encounters with writers and translators, there’s the festival book-sale, and an opportunity to meet the OOTW team informally, discover the best of Hispanic and Lusophone playwriting, in a celebration of international collaboration and theatre in translation.
The selected plays for this year were announced during their Spring Kindling and will bring to the Festival plays from Spain, Argentina, Venezuela, Portugal, Mexico and Mallorca.
Discover plays from Algeria, Israel, Canada, Turkey, and the USA in Global Voices Theatre’s upcoming event – Global Jewish Voices!
Global Jewish Voices is an afternoon of excerpt readings of international plays by Jewish playwrights from around the world.
Curated by theatre and performance maker Victor Esses, the selected works are:
The Kahena, Berber Queen by Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker (Algeria), translated from French by Jessica Benhamou Papa’gina by Hanna Vazana Grunwald (Israel), translated from Hebrew by Sivan Battat Heartlines by Sarah Waisvisz (Canada) Extinct by Philip Arditti (Turkey/UK) A People by L M Feldman (USA)
The in-person event will take place at the Bush Theatre, London on Sunday April 3rd at 2.30pm. It lasts around 2 hours 15 minutes and tickets are just £8/£6.
You can find more information and book tickets here
