Development
Script Space
UPDATE! June 2010
Script Space 3’s season of rehearsed readings has now finished for this year. You can still find details of this year’s winning entries below.
Details of Script Space 4 will be available here in the autumn. In the meantime, if you would like to be added to the Script Space mailing list please contact Sophie via scriptspace[at]tobaccofactory.com.
Script Space 3
We are delighted to announce the new season of Script Space rehearsed readings, which have been selected from over 250 submissions.
Click on the dates to visit the show page for further details.
Sunday 23 May
Zulu Wedding by Joseph Wilde
Nice Little Fortress by Stella MacDonald
Prepare to be wrong-footed with this double bill of unsettling revelations and confounded expectations.
Sunday 20 June
Dry Spell by Phil Booth
The once-arable land is awash, government help is nowhere to be seen: is this the end of a way of life for the farmers of Lancashire’s Mere?
Sunday 27 June
Ache by Gareth Jandrell
The Most Beautiful Man in the World by Katherine Mitchell
Beatle’s Big Date by Annie Franklin
Cry by Andrew Scott
This bundle of love stories, break-up stories and don’t-want-to-be-alone stories all tackle the thrills and miseries of romance head-on and question what it is we really want.
About Script Space
What’s in a play?
The alchemy of theatre demands a huge stash of ingredients if it’s successfully to conjure up a thrilling experience - and words are one of the most vital. But, of course, plays are about more than words – and if you’re a playwright wanting your work to be transformed by an encounter with actors, directors and a performance space, Script Space is absolutely the place for you.
Our annual series of script-in-hand performances of bright new plays provides a fantastic springboard for writers looking to unleash their work on a live audience, to learn what works on a stage and, taking a peek at audiences’ reactions, see exactly how to develop a fledgling piece until it takes flight.
It’s also the place to come if you love drama and want to experience a shot of original theatre-making; where you can see new-minted plays make their debut in a venue wonderfully well-suited to experimentation and innovation.
Script Space 2009
We received over 200 submissions to our Script Space 2009 competition and this spring 4 of these received rehearsed readings here at the Tobacco Factory:
This Things of Darkness by Emma Spurgin Hussey, dir. Emma Earle
Water’s Not So Thick by Gill Kirk, dir. Alan Coveney
Doggerland by Debbie Kent, dir. Sam Berger
The American Hotel by Jacqueline McCarrick, dir. Andrew Hilton