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Quote: Eric Egan Cento @ November 12 2008, 7:03 AM GMT
Hi all!
The official call for submissions was put out on Arts Jobs yesterday! It should be on BBC Writers Room by the end of the week.
See the below info and following links:
http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/index.php?id=25&ne_post_id=11551
Script Night: Renaissance - New Writing Opportunity
Cento Productions in partnership with Script Yorkshire and The Carriageworks are looking for new writers and new writing to contribute to the fifth in their successful series of seasonal mini-festivals of new writing for theatre.
Please read and adhere to the following criteria carefully as failure to do so will mean that your piece may not be considered.
We will consider submissions:
* Any style/genre
* For 1- 5 actors
* Of 5 to 10 minutes performance time
* Based on the theme of ‘Renaissance' – think laterally/interpret theme widely
* With one simple, single setting
* Minimal furniture
* Only absolutely necessary props
* Comedy or drama
* Multiple submissions
Pieces will be selected for originality and impact in interpreting the theme, as well as accomplishment in terms of narrative, structure, characterisation and use of sound/music, and for their ‘playablility' on a practical level.
Pieces must be written using a recognised industry format, e.g. ScriptSmart, which is available to download free at the BBC Writers Room website. Screenplays, TV Scripts and previously performed submissions will not be considered, so please do not send them.
Submissions will be shortlisted in early December, with a view to further development with selected writers, cast and the Creative Team in preparation for a fully staged, script-in-hand performance at The Carriageworks, Leeds, on Friday 6th or Saturday 7th March 2009. Pending the result of our application to ACE, we are planning an extended development period with development days for cast and writers as part of the rehearsal process.
The deadline for submissions is 30th November 2008. Please send to: renaissance@cento.org.uk Please include a brief synopsis, running time and full contact details including name, address and telephone number on your email - not on a separate attachment.
*** Based on the theme of ‘Renaissance'. Writers are encouraged to interpret the theme as widely as possible - whether it's the European Renaissance; Art, Architecture or the Age of Science & Discovery that provides you with a suitable stimulus, or to think laterally – modern Renaissance Man, birth/rebirth, Spring (on Jupiter or Mars!), the Ides of March, Mad March hares, Easter bonnets/parades, pagan/religious ritual & celebration, etc
Eric Egan
Technical Director
Cento Productions
Quote: Eric Egan Cento @ November 12 2008, 7:03 AM GMT
Hi all!
The official call for submissions was put out on Arts Jobs yesterday! It should be on BBC Writers Room by the end of the week.
See the below info and following links:
http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/index.php?id=25&ne_post_id=11551
Script Night: Renaissance - New Writing Opportunity
Cento Productions in partnership with Script Yorkshire and The Carriageworks are looking for new writers and new writing to contribute to the fifth in their successful series of seasonal mini-festivals of new writing for theatre.
Please read and adhere to the following criteria carefully as failure to do so will mean that your piece may not be considered.
We will consider submissions:
* Any style/genre
* For 1- 5 actors
* Of 5 to 10 minutes performance time
* Based on the theme of ‘Renaissance' – think laterally/interpret theme widely
* With one simple, single setting
* Minimal furniture
* Only absolutely necessary props
* Comedy or drama
* Multiple submissions
Pieces will be selected for originality and impact in interpreting the theme, as well as accomplishment in terms of narrative, structure, characterisation and use of sound/music, and for their ‘playablility' on a practical level.
Pieces must be written using a recognised industry format, e.g. ScriptSmart, which is available to download free at the BBC Writers Room website. Screenplays, TV Scripts and previously performed submissions will not be considered, so please do not send them.
Submissions will be shortlisted in early December, with a view to further development with selected writers, cast and the Creative Team in preparation for a fully staged, script-in-hand performance at The Carriageworks, Leeds, on Friday 6th or Saturday 7th March 2009. Pending the result of our application to ACE, we are planning an extended development period with development days for cast and writers as part of the rehearsal process.
The deadline for submissions is 30th November 2008. Please send to: renaissance@cento.org.uk Please include a brief synopsis, running time and full contact details including name, address and telephone number on your email - not on a separate attachment.
*** Based on the theme of ‘Renaissance'. Writers are encouraged to interpret the theme as widely as possible - whether it's the European Renaissance; Art, Architecture or the Age of Science & Discovery that provides you with a suitable stimulus, or to think laterally – modern Renreaissance Man, birth/rebirth, Spring (on Jupiter or Mars!), the Ides of March, Mad March hares, Easter bonnets/parades, pagan/religious ritual & celebration, etc
Eric Egan
Technical Director
Cento Productions
*thinks*
*sits in a corner of a red-lit room*
*tosses-off to the dream of a musk-potent gorilla abandoning it's own step-child due to the interference of a pesky lower-cast chimpanzee (a la 'The Servant')*
*come on floor as experimental theatre collapses under the weight of its own irony (and poor structural engineering)*
*vomit due to accidentally swallowing come and meeting Michael Winner in the theatre foyer - he being wheeled into the auditorium, trousers down, sitting on a huge gold toilet being pushed by a chaffeur*
