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Playwriting Real-Life: The Podcast from London Playwrights – Available now!

November 8, 2024 / 3 Comments / News / By

Playwriting Real-life explores all the issues, dilemmas, and challenges emerging playwrights face today. From making time to write in a busy world, to coping with rejection, to whether you should pay to submit your work – no subject is off the table! Hosted by London Playwrights director, Kimberley Andrews, the podcast will address the common burning …

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London Playwrights 2022 Members’ Submission Window – opens 3 July!

June 1, 2022 / 3 Comments / News / By

It’s that time of year again where we are super excited to announce our members’ submission window! We’re inviting our members to send in their scripts to be read in full by our team and get valuable feedback on their work. Selected writers will join a year long development programme which will culminate in their …

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Discussion with the creative team behind RAINER (running at the Arcola from 1-18 June)

May 31, 2022 / Leave a Comment / Events, News / By

Rainer opens this Wednesday, running for three weeks from the 1st to the 18th of June at the Arcola’s New Outside Space and is published by Bloomsbury, Methuen which can be purchased online and at the Arcola Theatre. You can watch the trailer to the show here! Book tickets here. We asked the creative team to …

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Playwriting Real-life: London Playwrights Launching New Podcast!

May 23, 2022 / 2 Comments / News / By

We’re super excited to tell you about our new podcast which will be launched this June! Playwriting Real-life will explore all the issues, dilemmas, and challenges emerging playwrights face today. From making time to write in a busy world, to coping with rejection, to whether you should pay to submit your work – no subject …

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2021 Members’ Submission Window Selected Writers!

May 23, 2022 / 2 Comments / News / By

We made it! We read every single play sent to us through our members’ submission window in full and provided every single writer with a valuable script report! It was such a privilege to read your plays. Each one was unique and received so many exciting, beautiful, and insightful ideas. We delved in to unknown …

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300 Thoughts for Theatremakers by Russell Lucas available to pre-order now

May 23, 2022 / Leave a Comment / News / By

‘The future of theatre will belong to the maverick minds who possess the skills to mix things up and who have enough tools in their box to trick the game.’ This is a practical, grassroots, self-empowerment book for theatremakers. It’s for anybody who wants to make live theatre, whether you’re an actor, a director, a …

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WGGB New Play Commission Scheme brings “lifeline to writers” post-Covid

March 24, 2022 / Leave a Comment / News / By

A new scheme is being launched to ensure 15 new commissions for playwrights across England in 2022. The scheme will be launched in April 2022 with online submissions open at www.writersguild.org.uk/npcs The New Play Commission Scheme (NPCS), led by WGGB in partnership with HighTide Theatre, UK Theatre and the Independent Theatre Council, has been designed to respond to the decline …

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#WrAP2022: Redrafting Resources – coming in April!

May 31, 2022 / Leave a Comment / Digital Resources, News / By

Did you take part in #WrAP2022? If so, you might remember we promised we’d be providing some readrafting tools in the Spring to help you develop your #WrAP2022 play even further! So, this April, we’ll be sending you weekly emails containing redrafting advice, exercises, and strategies to give you everything you need to polish up …

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Edwin Wong: When Life Gives You Risk, Make Risk Theatre 

March 9, 2022 / Leave a Comment / News / By

When Life Gives You Risk, Make Risk Theatre expands on the ideas laid out in Wong’s debut book and elaborates on how chance is a powerful and misunderstood force that directs the action, both on and off the stage. His vision of drama is one where risk is the dramatic fulcrum of the action. And of …

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