Writer Info & Support

Pint-sized Plays Writing competition

How much drama or comedy can you pack into a five or ten minute play?

Pint-sized Plays is your opportunity to show just how imaginative and original you can be. It can be funny, it can be sad...if it can be performed in a pub, with two or three characters, you could be a winner
Of Pint-sized Plays.

The winning six plays will all be performed in pubs in Pembrokeshire starting this Autumn, during the Tenby Arts Festival and then in other Pubs around the county.

Entries will be judged by Phil Clark, who was Artistic Director of the Sherman Theatre Company in Cardiff from 1990 to 2006  where he Prioritised new writing, commissioning and directing over 100 new plays.

Entries must be received by August 8th - for full details, go to www.pintsizedplays.org.uk

Writing Theatre for Younger Audiences: A European Perspective

Totleigh Barton Arvon Centre, Sheepwash, Devon

Mon 24 – Sat 29 November 2008
Special price : £239/£299

The creation of high quality, experimental theatre for children and young adults is burgeoning in the UK. However, such work is still in its early years here in comparison to its long tradition of artistic excellence and high status in mainland Europe.

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. The course will be taught by two internationally acclaimed theatre-makers with first-hand experience of Dutch & Flemish YPT who are perfectly placed to draw on their work both at home and abroad. This course is suitable for emerging and established playwrights in the field of children and young people’s theatre (not suitable for beginners).

For further information on the Arvon Foundation and courses please visit www.arvonfoundation.org

Protect the Human Competition

Run by iceandfire and Amnesty International

Deadline: 28 July, 2008

Who Can Apply?   Open

Requirements: The aim is to harness theatre`s ability to make real and relevant the impact of human rights on our everyday lives. The organisers are looking for insightful and engaging plays that imaginatively interpret this aim and are not interested in scripts that are didactic.

Prize: £3,000 for the winner plus readings in London, Leeds, Plymouth and Birmingham.

For full details go to www.iceandfire.co.uk/protectthehuman

Script Reading

All unsolicited scripts sent to Sherman Cymru will be read by both the Literary Manager and an Associate Director. We endeavour to provide feedback whenever it is possible to do so.

If possible, please send your work unbound, typed on one side of the paper only, and accompanied by an SAE if you wish your manuscript to be returned.

We do not accept full unsolicited scripts through email.

If we decide to develop the piece, there are opportunities to work intensively with the Literary Department on consecutive drafts, workshopping, etc.

If you would like further information please contact us Sian Summers or Branwen Davies