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A free helpline set up to provide health and well-being support is now available for theatre industry professionals. The 24-hour service has been set up by the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre, providing a phone and email service from June 14. Called the Theatre Helpline, it is intended to offer confidential support and …
As one of our LPW members very accurately (and humorously) stated, you’d have to be living on another planet not to know about GDPR! You’ll have received an email about how to reconfirm your subscription to our mailing list, which you’ll need to do if you’d like to keep getting the Weekly Roundup to your …
Theatre Uncut has launched the UK’s first major political playwriting prize in partnership with the Young Vic in London. Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre and the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff are also partners to the award, which aims to find the next generation of political playwrights. What you get: the writer of the winning play will receive £9,500 …
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The WGGB has launched a free resource on musical theatre. The Musical Theatre Kit covers creation, development and production and signposts the places where detailed information can be found about each aspect of the process. The Kit explores how musical theatre is a collaborative art-form. It recognises that the material is created by a combination of …
Sparks is HighTide’s new script submission process. Here’s how it works: “We want to get better at keeping writers in the loop with our reading process. We’re a small team and the volume of submissions we get through our open call-out make it hard for us to respond individually and quickly to writers. We realise …
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University Women In the Arts, the one off mentoring scheme to improve the transition for women from studying the arts to working in the arts, has announced its International Women’s Day event for 2018. The event will focus on and respond to the recent discussions on abuse, bullying and harassment in the arts, focusing particularly …
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Support LPB – Become a Member! The past four years of running London Playwrights’ Blog have been wonderful – we’ve loved getting to work with and support so many incredible writers. But they have also been challenging. As we’ve grown our work, we’ve needed to build the infrastructure to support that. Even with a team …
Glasgow Women’s Library and Stellar Quines have launched a Play Amnesty to showcase female playwriting talent. The Play Amnesty is a call out for plays written by women which can be put on a drama shelf to be unveiled on the 8 March to mark International Women’s Day. Glasgow Women’s Library and Stellar Quines say: “As we both …
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Orton is a new online resource that enables writers to develop their work within a community environment. It allows work to be shared and discussed and invites fellow-writers (and readers) to suggest edits, comment on what’s working and give critical feedback on a completed draft or snippet of material. It’s completely free to use and …
