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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
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John Godber presents Script Space Prize
We were delighted to be able to formally award this year’s Script Space winner Martin Lytton with his prize at a special event here last Wednesday. Esteemed playwright John Godber (who has been a regular face at the TF during the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School’s season of his work over the last month) presented Martin with a cheque for… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Mon 27 June 2011 at 1:01 am in News and tagged with john godber, new writing, script space - Permalink
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Script Space Winner Announced
300 WANNABE PLAYWRIGHTS VIE FOR A SCRIPT SPACE AT THE TOBACCO FACTORY THEATRE Now in its fourth year, the Tobacco Factory Theatre’s annual series of script-in-hand performances of bright new plays, Script Space, 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… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Tue 24 May 2011 at 1:01 am in News and tagged with Bristol Festival of Ideas, new writing, Script Space - Permalink
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BLOG: Script Space… Subtext 7
For the final installment of our Script Space blog, the baton is handed back to Sophie Lomax, the SS co-ordinator. As this goes live, Sophie and her team of readers are ensconced in the TF foyer, making their way through the 50+-strong long list, with the aim of whittling it down to the final few by the end of the… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Fri 04 March 2011 at 1:00 am in Feature and tagged with new writing - Permalink
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BLOG: Script Space… Subtext 6
Actor Shane Morgan reflects on the performer’s role in bringing a script to its feet for the first time. As an actor, I always liken getting a new script to getting a new phone. When you first get it, it is completely alien. It’s brand new. It smells new. You don’t want to mark it; you handle it as if… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Fri 25 February 2011 at 1:01 am in Feature and tagged with new writing - Permalink
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BLOG: Script Space… Subtext 5
This week the Tobacco Factory Theatre’s director, Ali Robertson, writes about the important role Script Space plays in helping us support and promote the best new writers of the future. We produce very few of the shows that play at the Tobacco Factory. We produce a Christmas show every year, but some years that’s it: all the other shows in… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Tue 22 February 2011 at 1:01 am in News, Feature and tagged with new writing - Permalink
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BLOG: Script Space… Subtext 4
A one-woman piece about a near-disastrous dinner party encounter was one of the favourites at last year’s Script Space rehearsed readings. Here the author of ‘The Most Beautiful Man in the World’, Katherine Mitchell, reflects on how the experience developed her belief in her writing and led to other opportunities. Normally, I don’t enter competitions. I always intend to, but… Read more...
Posted by Carrie on Fri 11 February 2011 at 1:01 am in Feature and tagged with new writing - Permalink
