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FOOTNOTES 2: Script Space 2013 - maps and more
Hello! Bet you’re wondering why there’s a map on this page, and why it’s covered in purple pins. Well, you may remember that in our previous blog we noted just how widespread the submissions for this year’s competition were. We wanted to see just what this looked like, so our lovely Bristol Old Vic Theatre School interns Alex and Louise… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Wed 10 April 2013 at 1:01 am in News, Feature and tagged with blog, competition, new writing, playwright, writer - Permalink
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FOOTNOTES 1: SCRIPT SPACE 2013 - the reading begins!
Back for a sixth year running, the Tobacco Factory Theatre’s Script Space new writing competition has a received an impressive 321 submissions from all over the South West and beyond. Entries have come in from Bedminster to Exeter; Frome to Tenby; Weston to Gloucester and Warminster to Clifton! Entries to the initiative are all hoping to be awarded bespoke development… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Mon 04 March 2013 at 2:01 am in News and tagged with competition, new writing, play, playwright, reading, script, text, writer - Permalink
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Script Space V: The Winners
Script Space V | 2012 Now in its fifth year, Tobacco Factory Theatre’s Script Space is one of the largest open new writing competitions in the country, offering bespoke development opportunities for the winning scripts. This year the competition received a record 573 entries, with submissions from all over the country. We were looking for writing that excited us, writing… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Wed 04 July 2012 at 1:01 am in News and tagged with development, dramaturgy, new writing, playwrght, rehearsed reading, writer - Permalink
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BLOG: Script Space V… Footnotes 4
With less than one month to go before the winning scripts are decided upon, director Emma Callander (Digits, The Brewery, 2011) reflects on her experience as a second round reader for Script Space V… Last Thursday a group of writers, directors, dramaturgs and lovers of new writing came together to discuss the first shortlist of Script Space entries. After the… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Wed 04 April 2012 at 1:01 am in News, Feature and tagged with competition, new writing, plays, playwright, script space, writers - Permalink
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BLOG: Script Space V… Footnotes 3
In the third of our Script Space blogs, Cheltenham-based playwright Martin Lytton, winner of Script Space IV, reflects on the emotional journey that accompanies entering new writing competitions and how the worm has turned… Last year I had the incredible good fortune to win the Tobacco Factory Script Space IV competition. What has that meant for me? Well, there is… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Mon 05 March 2012 at 1:01 am in News and tagged with development, new writing, playwright, script space - Permalink
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BLOG: Script Space V… Footnotes 2
In the second of our Script Space blogs, playwright and performer Adrian Harris reflects on his developing involvement with the initiative over the last few years. ‘...the end.’ Hmm… A moment to reflect and then I’ll jot a few notes down. That’s script number 5 finished, part of my reading duties for Script Space V. I’ve been involved in Script… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Mon 20 February 2012 at 1:01 am in Feature and tagged with blog, new writing, playwright, script space - Permalink
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BLOG: Script Space V… FOOTNOTES 1
Welcome to the first Script Space V blog! Make sure you keep logged in over the next few months - every couple of weeks we’ll be asking artists who’ve been involved with Script Space to contribute their words of wisdom, top theatre tips or simply their excitement and intrigue surrounding the process of unearthing great new writing, untold stories and… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Wed 01 February 2012 at 1:01 am in News, Feature and tagged with new writing, playwright, script space, writers forum - Permalink
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SCRIPT SPACE: a call for new writing
Developing writers and their work Back for a fifth year running, Tobacco Factory Theatre’s Script Space is an open competition that invites submissions of new, unperformed one-act plays from UK-based writers for tailor-made development opportunities. It’s very simple, really: we’re looking for exciting writing from exciting writers whom we’d like to work with further. We will select up to three… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Thu 08 December 2011 at 1:01 am in News and tagged with development, new writing, playwright, script - Permalink
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BLOG: Inside Outside 2
Simon Harvey-Williams, the other half of Bristol-based writing duo Darkstuff Productions, talks about how a fascination with how individuals responded to the events of 9/11 has informed the company’s new adaptation of Albert Camus’ The Outsider… At one point in Outside, our central character David sits watching the coverage of the planes flying into the Twin Towers on 9/11; he… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Tue 06 September 2011 at 1:01 am in News and tagged with Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, new writing - Permalink
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BLOG: Inside Outside 1
Playwright Phil John, one half of Bristol-based new writing outfit Darkstuff Productions, talks about his latest project – an adaptation of Camus’ seminal Existentialist text, The Outsider. Outside plays at the Brewery from Tues 6 Sept in the TFT’s designated Bristol Old Vic Theatre School graduate director slot. I first read L’Etranger (The Stranger or The Outsider) when I was… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Wed 31 August 2011 at 1:01 am in News and tagged with Brewery, new writing - Permalink
