National Play Festival
promoting the best new Australian writing
IGNITE YOUR IMAGINATION - National Play Festival 2010 live and online now at www.nationalplayfestival.org.au
The National Play Festival is a unique opportunity to develop and present your work, in performance, to a national and international audience of theatre companies and producers. It is Australia’s leading market for showcasing new unproduced plays.
The centrepiece of the National Play Festival is the Showcase season – a two-week residential event for emerging, developing and established playwrights culminating in a season of polished readings of new Australian plays.
Showcase plays are selected by competitive entry by PlayWriting Australia. The selection process concentrates on finding new works that are ready for performance, demonstrate an ambitious and vigorous engagement with its subject, a sound understanding of the medium and an exciting product for the consideration of producers and presenters. Selected playwrights are provided with travel and accommodation and a collaborative team of actors, directors and dramaturgs with whom the Showcase plays are rehearsed, developed and performed.
The Showcase season is an industry market for key producers and presenters from across Australia who attend the Festival to preview the selected works. Works showcased at the Festival in previous years have gone on to be selected for production around the country, and include Helly’s Magic Cup by Rosalba Clemente (Windmill Performing Arts), Rock, Paper, Scissors by John AD Fraser (Tamarama Rock Surfers), Concussion by Ross Mueller (Sydney Theatre Company and Griffin Theatre Company) and Savage River by Steve Rodgers (Griffin Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company and Tasmanian Theatre Company).
NATIONAL PLAY FESTIVAL 2010
Brisbane
Applications
Applications for the National Play Festival 2010 are now closed
Runs
Rehearsals (for participating artists): 8-20 February<br>Performances: 15-20 February
More information
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NATIONAL PLAY FESTIVAL 2011
Applications
Applications for the 2011 Festival will open May-July 2010. Register for our e-news updates to receive automatic notification when applications open.
More information
Application information for the National Play Festival 2011 will be available May-July 2010
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