Radius 2020 Playwriting Competition has now been announced in association with the Finborough Theatre. The shortlist will be judged by the Finborough Theatre's Artistic Director, Neil McPherson, together with the Literary Manager, Sue Healy.
The Finborough Theatre today announces that submissions are open for the ETPEP Award 2020.
2020 is the Finborough Theatre's 40th anniversary year, and they have announced announce another season of vibrant new writing and unique rediscoveries that you can't see anywhere else. This season we introduce London audiences to one of Northern Ireland's most acclaimed recent dramatists; rediscover an award-winning play from 1980, the year that we opened; a phenomenally successful comedy-drama from Canada; and a stunning early play from 1938 by a pioneer female playwright.
The first London production in nearly 75 years of Welsh playwright Emlyn Williams' The Wind of Heaven opens at the Finborough Theatre for a four-week Christmas season on Tuesday, 26 November 2019 (Press Nights: Thursday, 28 November 2019 and Friday, 29 November 2019 at 7.30pm).
The ETPEP Award 2020 is a playwriting prize for new UK playwrights who work in the theatre industry, run by the Finborough Theatre in association with the Experienced Theatre Practitioners Early Playwriting Trust (ETPEP).
The multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre celebrates its 40th anniversary year in 2020 a?" and to mark the occasion, we will shortly be unveiling a whole new look for our publicity, including a new logo, and a brand new website.
The Finborough Theatre's Autumn season features three premieres, all discovered by the Finborough Theatre's Artistic Director Neil McPherson - another Finborough rediscovery from a classic British playwright, written in 1970, but never before seen in London, alongside two European premieres from female playwrights - a hit Off Broadway play from the United States, and a multi-award-winning new play from New Zealand/ Aotearoa.
The Finborough Theatre today announces the winner for the ETPEP Award 2019. The winner is FENCE by Abigail Andjel.
The winner will be announced on Friday, 24 May 2019 and will receive a prize of £8,000, a development relationship with the Finborough Theatre including one-to-one dramaturgy with Finborough Theatre Artistic Director and playwright Neil McPherson; a rehearsal workshop with actors and a director to develop the play; and a staged reading performance of the winning play as part of Vibrant 2019 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights at the Finborough Theatre, London on Sunday, 30 June 2019.
Now in its eleventh consecutive year, the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre presents Vibrant 2019 A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, its annual explosion of new writing, running between 16 June-4 July 2019.
The Finborough Theatre's summer season features two world premieres from female playwrights - a new play written and directed by the first woman ever to direct at the National Theatre, and a debut play from a brand new American dramatist - alongside another classic Finborough rediscovery from one of the greatest theatrical figures of the 19th century, unseen in London for over 120 years. We also bring you the eleventh consecutive year of our annual celebration of new writing, Vibrant 2019 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, giving us a chance to share with you just a few of the exceptional writers we have developed, nurtured and championed over the last year.
Matthew Lopez's epic two-part drama The Inheritance was the big winner at the 2018 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards held today (29 January 2019) at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London's West End, hosted by Critics' Circle Drama Section Chairman Mark Shenton.
Directed by Jelena Budimir. Set and Costume Design by Sarah Jane Booth. Lighting Design by Matt Cater. Sound Design by Joe Dines. Presented by All Ignite Theatre in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre. Cast: George Jovanovic. Zarima McDermott. Hayward B Morse.
The ETPEP Award 2019 is a playwriting prize for new UK playwrights who work in the theatre industry, run by the Experienced Theatre Practitioners Early Playwriting Trust (ETPEP) in association with the Finborough Theatre.
The Finborough Theatre's Spring season features three stunning rediscoveries, all unseen in London for many years - a heart-breaking play set against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa by Athol Fugard; a hit British musical of the 1960s from the composer of Oliver!, Lionel Bart; and our third rediscovery from neglected Ulster playwright St John Ervine.
Beast on the Moon by Richard Kalinoski comes to the Finborough Theatre Tuesday, 29 January-Saturday, 23 February 2019. This is the first London production in more than 20 years.
The Finborough Theatre completes the 150th birthday year of the Finborough Theatre building and moves into a new year with a three month season of plays embracing - as always - both unique rediscoveries and vibrant new writing. Our new season includes a rediscovered hit by one of the West End's most successful interwar female playwrights, a brand new play by one of the UK's most successful writer/directors, a modern classic on the plight of migrants fleeing persecution and genocide, and for one performance only, a new play with music performed in Scottish Gaelic.
In this centenary year of the end of World War 1, writer and producer, Breon Rydell, has been determined that the life and work of WW1 Scottish poet, Charles Hamilton Sorley will not be forgotten. It Is Easy To Be Dead, Neil McPherson's beautifully written and significant play opens at The Tivoli, Aberdeen on Tuesday 6 November and will be followed by performances at Òran Mor, Glasgow from Sunday 11 to Wednesday 14 November.
Now in its tenth consecutive year, the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre presents Vibrant 2018 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, its annual explosion of new writing, running between 7-25 October 2018.
The 150th birthday year of the Finborough Theatre building continues with its September-November season, which again brings together the two strands of its multi-award-winning artistic policy. Alongside unique rediscoveries from a forgotten Victorian dramatist and two works inspired by the First World War, the Finborough presents eight new plays and one new musical from England, Wales, the United States and New Zealand.
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