Theatres may be closed right now, but The NHB Playgroup is OPEN - so join us to discover and discuss fantastic contemporary drama by today's most exciting writers, available to read completely for free.
Each Wednesday during the coronavirus shutdown, we're making one play available for free as an ebook and online, and inviting everyone who reads it to send in a question for the writer. We'll then record a Q&A with them, which we'll release the following Wednesday, along with the next free play!
Our first Playgroup play, the Bruntwood Prize-winning Yen by Anna Jordan, is available to read now. Other brilliant writers we've lined up so far include James Fritz, Winsome Pinnock, Enda Walsh, Stef Smith and Ella Hickson – visit our website here to take part.
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The Coronavirus Time Capsule is a free collaborative project by acclaimed youth-theatre organisation Company Three (developed and distributed in partnership with Nick Hern Books), created to support groups of young people around the world in recording their experience of the coronavirus pandemic.
Download a free Blueprint and get weekly resources from leading theatre-makers to help you and your group create short videos about life during this extraordinary time, giving teenagers the opportunity to continue to connect, share, and express themselves.
Perfect for youth theatres, educational institutions, student drama groups, amateur companies, community-arts projects, or even just families at home, it's for any size group of teenagers, you can adapt it however you like, and you can start anytime. Like our previous collaboration with Company Three, the hugely popular Brainstorm, it puts your young people at the centre of their own brand-new piece of art.
Find out more information, download the Blueprint and start creating your own Time Capsule here.
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The submissions window for Papatango Theatre Company's Isolated But Open project has now closed – and incredibly they've received over 2000 monologues! Thank you to everyone who took the time to write and send something in.
The Papatango team will now select 10 writers to receive £100 for their pieces, which will be self-filmed by 10 actors (who'll also be paid £100 each) with the films shared online for free.
The scripts will also be published in digital format online, as a collection called Isolated But Open: Voices from Across The Shutdown, available to download for free from our website later this month. This published version will also feature new works from acclaimed playwrights Rachel Delahay and Anders Lustgarten – the videos of these first two films are out now and available to view here.
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EVERYTHING ELSE WE'RE UP TO
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Here's a reminder of the other promotions and opportunities available on the NHB website – support our writers, stay creative at home, explore free resources and more.
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