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Plays for the Young Competition

The Competition:-

Playmarket is putting a special effort into gathering and co-ordinating the best of all plays that fall into this category, from adaptations of fairy tales for tiny children, to plays written by teachers especially for the classroom, to the most searing explorations of adolescence written by teenagers themselves - with no limits on length or cast size. We aim to encourage strong, original and inventive writing for young people both from those new to writing for the young, and the experienced.

This is an annual competition which is helping us build up a good database for this category of work.  We aim to gather the best of the best together for publication in an occasional anthology as part of the Playmarket Play Series.  The winner will also be offered some script development resources.

The deadline for the next competition is July 31st 2010. This is an open competition for produced and unproduced plays by any writers of any age, and you may submit as many as you like – including plays of yours that we hold on file already, and plays that have been submitted to other competitions. HOWEVER! Please note that scripts may only be submitted to this competition ONCE, unless you have undertaken significant revision.

Please email your submission, which must include a full list of characters with brief descriptions, including where relevant the minimum cast number required with suggested doubling;  a short synopsis; and numbered pages, please!

For all queries anytime please contact Jean at scripts@playmarket.org.nz

 

2009 WINNERS!

FIRST – Sarah Delahunty, 2b or nt 2b

SECOND EQUAL – Hollie Sutton, Made in NZ;  Sarah Delahunty, Eating the Wolf

FOURTH EQUAL – Andrew McCowan, Just Another Day;  Michelanne Forster, The Secret of Tung Ting Lake

Highly commended – Angie Farrow, Falling, and Lifetime; Ken Mizusawa, Touched With Fire, and That Time; Renee Boyer-Willisson, Bone Deep.

Special mention for adaptation of classic tales – Greg Cooper for seven short works.

Congratulations to all our winners, and to the others on our excellent short list.