New Writing & Kings Cross Award
The Kings Cross Award for New Writing is now a national platform for emerging playwrights and plays. In this, its sixth year, the judging panel selected for final consideration the work of six playwrights from an outstanding long list, they were:2023 by Lisa Parry
Leopoldville by Jaqueline McCarrick
The Dealer of Ballynafeigh by Rosemary Jenkinson
Mother of Him by Evan Placey
Face The Camera and Smile by Dan Horrigan
Mish Gorecki Goes Missing by Skye Loneragan
All six works showed outstanding promise, but the overall winner is:
Mother of Him
by Evan Placey
The play was highly praised by the Competition's prestigious panel of:
Debbie Isitt, writer and film director; Robin Soans, Actor, playwright and writer;
Prof. Kenneth Pickering, writer, director and academic;
Philip Dart, Playwright and Artistic director of Chalkfoot Theatre Company
Nick Quinn, from top literary agents The Agency;
June Abbott, Artistic Director, The Courtyard Theatre; Louisa Fitzgerald, dramaturg.
"With a compelling story-line and well drawn, characters, Placey captures the complicated dynamic of a mother-son relationship"
Mother of Him goes forward to a full scale professional production at London's The Courtyard Theatre in the new year.
THE COURTYARD THEATRE ANNOUNCES A NEW WRITING SCHEME:
THE COURTYARD WRITERS GROUP - SIXTEEN WEEK PROGRAMME
The Courtyard Theatre is offering emerging writers to opportunity to meet and discuss their work with one another, directors, dramaturgs and actors.
The programme will run every other Saturday for sixteen weeks and will be covering topics including:
- Writing for fringe
- Writing for radio
- Writing one act/full length plays
- Writing for TV/film
Every session will provide writers with the opportunity to read and workshop an excerpt of one of their scripts with a director, actors and a dramaturg.
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