Jack Studio Theatre Presents Write Now 3 Annual Playwrighting Festival, April 7-28

Jack Studio Theatre presents its Write Now 3 Annual Playwrighting Festival April 7 - April 28, 2012. See the festival's listings below:

Emoticon by Melissa Bubnic: Tuesday 10 – Saturday 14 April at 7.45pm
Skin Head by Jessica Brown: Tuesday 17 – Saturday 21 at 7.45pm
Borderland by Carol Vine: Tuesday 24 –Saturday 28 at 7.45pm

Emoticon by Melissa Bubnic
Directed by Omar F. Okai

Tiani knows she's hot. Alice knows she's ugly. James thinks he's fit. And Dale wishes none of this were happening. Four very different teenagers search for sex, validation, and the wisdom to know which is which. A darkly comic play for anyone who's ever wished they were someone else.

Tuesday 10 – Saturday 14 April at 7.45pm
Saturday 14 April at 4pm
Tickets: £12, £10 (suitable for over 14s)

Skin Head by Jessica Brown

Directed by Lydia Parker

Jack's shaving his head. He can't explain why. Becky left him behind and has now returned to find his home town swallowing him up. Theresa's a survivor, she's not feeling herself. Ted thinks he's the only one who can help. This is a small town, and everyone's business is your business. Skinhead is a new play about the way we live and the way we let go.

Tuesday 17 – Saturday 21 April at 7.45pm
Saturday 21 April at 4pm
Tickets: £12, £10 (suitable for over 14s)

Borderland by Carol Vine

Directed by Kate Bannister

The near future. Lucy raids the empty flats in a sprawling sink estate for leftovers. Darren finds himself abandoned by the country he fought for. Tray will do anything to survive. As the place disintegrates into violence and neglect, they are all drawn deeper into a world that threatens to destroy them before they can leave.

Tuesday 24 – Saturday 28 April at 7.45pm
Saturday 28 April at 4pm
Tickets: £12, £10 (suitable for over 18s)
Please note this production contains strong language that could offend.

The Festival is run by the Jack Studio Theatre and is now in its third successive year. The final play reading panel for the 2012 Festival consisted of Kate Bannister (Artistic Director, Jack Studio Theatre), playwright Lin Coghlan (National Theatre, Eastenders, Soho Theatre); Franko Figueiredo (Artistic Director, Stone Crabs); Simon James Collier (Okai Collier Company); and Paul Ashton (BBC Writers Room).

THE PLAYWRIGHTS

MELISSA BUBNIC won the Sydney Theatre Company's PatRick White Award for her play Beached. She is a shadow writer for TV show, Shameless, and is developing an original comedy-drama series for Channel 4. She completed a Masters in Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths, with the assistance of the Rae and Edith Bennett Travelling Scholarship.

Jessica Brown was born in Greenwich. She completed the Royal Court Young Writer's Programme in 2010, where she developed Skinhead. Her first play Chocolate Bounty won Write Now 2. Since then Jess has been shortlisted for the BBC Writersroom 10 in partnership with the Jack.

CAROL VINE lives in East Dulwich, and trained at Rose Bruford. Her first screenplay was short-listed for BBC Talent. Her most recent play Rigor Mortis was one of the three runners up for the Papatango New Writing Festival, and performed at the Finborough Theatre. Borderland was also short-listed for the Kings Cross Award.

Write Now 3
Annual Playwrighting Festival
Jack Studio Theatre
410 Brockley Road
London SE4 2DH

Festival Dates: Saturday 7 April – Saturday 28 April 2012

Box Office: 0844 847 2454 / www.brockleyjack.co.uk

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