Telling and sharing stories is amazing - maybe you, or someone you know has a story to tell?
This summer we’ll be bringing our pop-up theatre ‘the Den’ to Beswick, Openshaw and Clayton, bringing two weeks of music, theatre, comedy, workshops and more, programmed by local residents for local residents. As part of the festival, we are running a competition for young people to write their own plays which will be performed by professional actors at the festival.
All plays will be professionally directed and performed. All winning writers will get feedback from Royal Exchange Theatre Dramaturg Suzanne Bell to develop their plays before rehearsals.
The deadline for all submissions is Sunday 25th June 12pm.
Entering
To enter the competition, please submit here.
Competition Rules
1. This competition is open to anyone who lives or has a connection to Beswick, Openshaw and Clayton. We are afraid that no other submissions can be considered at this time.
2. You must be in either age category: Age 11-14 & Age 15-18.
3. We can only accept one entry per person.
4. The play must be an original, unperformed and unproduced piece of work.
5. We cannot accept musicals, work specifically for younger audiences, prose writing, radio pieces or screenplays.
6. The play must be a minimum of 5 minutes in length and a maximum of 15 minutes in length. This is around 10 pages long. We recommend reading it out loud (perhaps with friends and family) to check the timings.
7. While the play can have any number of characters, the script must be written for a maximum of two performers.
7. The entrant must exclusively own and control all copyright and all other related rights to the submitted script.
8. The submitted play must be available for production and unattached to any other theatre or company. Any scripts that have been professionally optioned, produced or published will be disqualified.
9. We do accept plays co-authored by more than one writer. Please ensure that only one entry is submitted with one set of contact details.
