The Women's Prize for Playwriting, produced by Ellie Keel and Paines Plough, with Principal Partner 45North and in association with Sonia Friedman Productions today announce the 62 longlisted scripts for The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2021, selected from 850 entries.
The Peggy Ramsay Foundation with Film4 and the Maria Bjornson Memorial Fund are delighted to announce the six winners of the Peggy Ramsay/Film4 Awards which celebrate and support emerging British writing talent.
Mooncake by Nicola T. Chang and Isabella Leung, is available from 22 July, FOUND by Abi Zakarian, is released 5 August, and Rime of the Second Sister by Ava Wong Davies, is released 19 August.
Following a sell-out run at Kiln Theatre, Amy Trigg's debut play Reasons You Should(n't) Love Me, will be available to view online for 3 performances only from 18–20 June. Directed by Charlotte Bennett, Reasons You Should(n't) Love Me opened to critical acclaim at Kiln Theatre in May, and has limited number of tickets available for the remainder of its run until 12 June.
The joint winner of The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2020 Ahlam will have a staged reading of their debut play You Bury Me as part of a festival of new work at the Edinburgh International Festival at the Royal Lyceum Theatre this summer.
Amy Trigg performs in her own award-winning debut play at The Kiln Theatre. Winner of the inaugural Women’s Playwriting Prize from Paines Plough and Ellie Keel Productions, the play is a joyous and poignant look at a woman’s experience of spina bifida. Directed by Paines Plough co-artistic director Charlotte Bennett, the piece is a laugh from start to finish – whilst still at the same time contains moments of real emotional impact.
Juno was born with spina bifida and is now clumsily navigating her twenties amidst street healers, love, loneliness - and the feeling of being an unfinished project.
For the first time since theatres closed on 16 March 2020, Kiln Theatre will re-open to share live performance with audiences with a season of work including the world première of Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me by Amy Trigg.
The Women's Prize for Playwriting opens today for submissions for the 2021 Prize, closing on 12 July at 5pm. The Women's Prize for Playwriting is designed to celebrate and support exceptional playwrights who identify as female by providing them with a national platform.
For the first time since theatres closed on 16 March 2020, Kiln Theatre will re-open to share live performance with audiences with a season of work including three world premières.
Artistic Directors Charlotte Bennett and Katie Posner today announce plans for Paines Plough 2021.
In a digital ceremony tonight, the winners of the inaugural The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020 were announced. Due to an exceptionally strong field, the judging panel selected two first prize winners: Amy Trigg for REASONS YOU SHOULD(N'T) LOVE ME and Ahlam for YOU BURY ME.
EKP and Paines Plough, with 45North and in association with Sonia Friedman Productions, today announce the seven finalist scripts for the inaugural The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2020, selected from 1,169 entries
EKP and Paines Plough, with 45North and in association with Sonia Friedman Productions, today announce the 35 shortlisted scripts for the inaugural The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2020, selected from 1,169 entries.
The Women's Prize for Playwriting has announced their longlist of writers. 1,169 submissions to the Prize were received.
Check out this week's list of new and upcoming book, music, and film releases, including a Hadestown lyric book, new music from Telly Leung, Melissa Errico, and more!
The Royal Shakespeare Company today released Sonnets in Solitude, a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets self-recorded by RSC actors while in lockdown. Many of the actors were working with the RSC at the time of the theatre's temporary closure on 17 March and have been unable to perform or rehearse since.
The cast of over 50 UK actors taking part in Unprecedented: Theatre from the State of Isolation has been announced.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater is proud to welcome the return of the world-renowned Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) to Chicago for the first time in nearly 25 years. Chicago Shakespeare will present the company's acclaimed gender-swapped production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Justin Audibert, in a special limited engagement April 15a?"May 2, 2020 in The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare.
As you enter the Barbican's auditorium to watch the RSC's The Taming of the Shrew, you can't miss the sound of fireworks in the background. It's implied a celebration is coming. As part of this RSC season alongside As You Like It and Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew is directed by Justin Audibert. But is it an explosion of theatrical goodness or a wet fizzle? Prithee, read on to find out.
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