Andrew Sharpe’s latest play, The Spiral Path, has made its’ transfer into London and will be performed at the White Bear from 22nd – 26th March. We’re thrilled to hear the work of on one of our members has been produced and we’ll be going along on Thursday 24th March to show our support if …
Sankofa by Acquah & Co, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize, opens on 15th February at the Bread & Roses. We caught up with writer, Nicole Acquah, who shared her thoughts on the process of writing the play… Sankofa is a semi-autobiographical show about my experiences as a British-Ghanaian woman trying to understand more about my heritage. …
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What can you get for £3.63 per month? London Playwrights Membership….and probably not much else these days! But what does that mean? What do our members get for their money? Well, first and foremost your membership directly funds our organisation and helps us to keep going! It means we can continue creating resources, opportunities, and …
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The 2022 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting is now open for entries! The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting is open to anyone aged 16+ in the UK, Ireland and the British Territories with a story to tell. The biennial prize is a partnership between property company Bruntwood, a major supporter of the arts, and world-class producing theatre, …
Bruntwood Prize 2022 – Open until 6 June! Plus FREE WRITING RESOURCES! Read More »
We have a new programme of Zoom workshops coming to you for 2022! Click here to see what we’ve got on offer. Remember, members pay 20% less. If you’re not a member yet, you can sign up here.
We caught up with Fizzy Sherbet to tell us all about their new podcast series which is now live! “It’s cold at the moment, isn’t it? But all the fog and ice cannot dampen our excitement here at Fizzy Sherbet, as we have just released the first series of our podcast on Monday 17 January …
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A huge Happy New Year to all of you! Before we share our exciting plans for the year ahead with you, we want to say an enormous thanks to everyone who has supported us over the past year; 2021 was a massive year for us with projects such as the members’ submission window, The Literary …
Wondering whether sigining up to WrAP2022 is a good idea? In this blog post, playwright Olivia Pryle shares her experience of taking part in WrAP2021 and how the play she started developing made it to the Bread & Roses Theatre as part of the Clapham Fringe this October… “A few years ago I started putting …
All female theatre Company, Sixteen Sixty, have a brand new show coming up at the Bread & Roses Theatre from 22nd November. In Bad Taste is a horror-comedy involving gallons of fake blood and a distinct lack of fourth wall. Written with the current political climate biting at our heels, it follows a group of five …
Female Creatives, Horror Comedy & Bad Taste! London Playwrights Interview Sixteen Sixty Read More »
In the latest issue of Greenlit’s The Creative Crowd, Kimberley Andrews discusses how theatre is bouncing back and how crowdfunding and building a creative community can help. Read the full article here.
