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Above: Mentors and Mentored Playwrights in the CCA. Photo Credit: Mihaela Bodlovic
Mentoring
The first session of this year's Mentoring programme was this week. The CCA will be buzzing with talk of new plays. The Mentors this year are Rob Drummond, Alan McKendrick and Lynda Radley.
Play Pieces Workshop
On Saturday 27 February Playwrights' Studio, Scotland will be supporting a day-long workshop for theatre makers at Eden Court, Inverness.
During the morning session there will be an opportunity to hear from the Producers Hub, Play Pieces and our Creative Director, Fiona, about the support and opportunities for creating new work. In the afternoon, Lewis Hetherington, will lead a playwriting workshop. 'Write Here, write now!' will explore practical, playful and dynamic techniques to develop your writing for the stage. For the schedule for the day and booking information check Eventbrite.
TalkFest at the Tron
We return to the Tron to develop and celebrate the work of Scotland's playwrights. The Tron's spaces will be packed with new playwriting in the form of rehearsed readings, discussions, master classes, workshops, script surgeries and networking opportunities.This year's residency will be from Monday 18 - Saturday 23 April. Get the dates in your diary.
Feedback from TalkFest at the Tron 2015:
"I found all of the TalkFest programme interesting, relevant & surprising."
"It was a fantastic workshop that got to the heart of the struggles that can be faced as a writer."
More details about public performances and how to get involved will be announced soon.
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Arundel Festival Theatre Trail 2016
The Arundel Festival Theatre Trail, conceived and presented by Drip Action Theatre Company, is now in its sixteenth year. Eight short plays at eight different venues all over Arundel.
Deadline: 31 January 2016
James Tait Black Award For Drama - Call For Entries
The James Tait Black Prize is Britain's oldest literary award and was extended to include drama for the first time in 2012. The prize for the best original new play written in English, Scots or Gaelic will be announced in August 2016.
Deadline: 12 February 2016
The First National Octagon Prize
The Octagon Theatre is delighted to launch its first national writing prize: a competition celebrating new and original writing for the stage. Entrants over 16 with any level of experience are invited to submit 40-minute dramatic monologues of any theme or genre.
Deadline: 26 February 2016
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The James Plays by Rona Munro (photo credit: National Theatre of Scotland)
The Weir by Conor MacPherson
15 Jan - 6 Feb
Royal Lyceum Theatre
When a young woman arrives from Dublin, the fellas impress her with their local ghost stories but as the night draws in, Valerie will share a haunting tale of her own.
Causeway by Victoria Bianchi
25 - 30 Jan
A Play, A Pie and A Pint
Causeway tells the true story of Frances Parker and Ethel Moorhead, two suffragettes who, in 1914, cycled to the Robert Burns' cottage armed with a mission and pipe bombs. It explores the story of two women, and of one cause that divided a nation.
The James Plays by Rona Munro
3 Feb - 12 June
Various Locations
The James Plays are a modern cycle of history plays by award-winning playwright Rona Munro. This vividly-imagined trilogy brings to life three generations of Stewart Kings who ruled Scotland in the tumultuous fifteenth century.
The Lost Things by Oliver Emanuel
4 Feb - 7 Mar
Various Locations
The Lost Things is about losing things and finding things you didn't even know you were looking for; a dark fairytale set in a fantastical world that probes at themes of friendship, loneliness and what it means to be truly lost.
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