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Bruntwood Royal Exchange playwriting prize

Article in Guardian annoucing the “Booker prize for Playwrights”

The Manchester Royal Exchange theatre announces the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition, a “national contest to discover and celebrate Britain’s best writers for the theatre”. Launching next month, the competition has a prize fund of £45,000 and offers the winner a fully staged production in the Royal Exchange’s 750 main house theatre. A runner-up play will be staged at the theatre’s smaller, 120-seat studio.

Entry to the contest is anonymous.

The only criteria is that submitted plays must not have been produced already.

The final panel has: former culture secretary Chris Smith, Nicholas Hytner, actor Brenda Blethyn and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah.

The winning playwright receives £15,000, while runners-up get £10,000 and £5,000. T

This is an amazing opportunity. I better keep at my next play. It being anonymous gives unknowns a really big chance…

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2 Responses to “Bruntwood Royal Exchange playwriting prize”

  1. Ray Baker on December 1st, 2005

    DOES THIS COMPETION INCLUDE SPOKEN WORD / MUSIC OR IS IT SPOKEN WORD ONLY ?

  2. Ben Yeoh on December 2nd, 2005

    You can have music, I would guess, but it’s not meant to be a “musical”. Drama, not adaptation, musical or translation is the main thrust.

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