2014 Summer Competition Results

Winners of the Summer Competition Announced (2014-11-14 01:03:31)

The winners with the actors

The actors

Richard James and a group of actors (Ros, Amber, Sally and Jonathan) joined us for the meeting to give the results and read the top four plays.

The task set by Richard was to write a 10 minute play on the theme of The Photograph

Richard began by congratulating all those who entered. There were sixteen entries, all different and all competently written. He said it is the greatest thing for playwrights to hear their plays read by actors. It shows what works and what does not and how actors bring a script to life.

Richard gave his thoughts on all the plays and then announced the winners. (There are links to the videos of these plays at the end of this article.)

Picture shows Michael Pearcy, Lorraine Forrest-Turner, Richard James, Carol Breuer and Lee Taylor.

• 1st and the SW Drama Trophy: A Foreign Country by Carol Breuer

• 2nd: The Legacy by Mike Pearcy

• 3rd: Complicit by Lorraine Forrest-Turner

• Highly commended: Not Drowning by Lee Taylor

At the end of the evening there was time for some questions. Lorraine asked about markets. Richard said that if the plays could be extended to one act play length they could be sent to LazyBee Scripts for consideration. Another possible outlet is English/Drama departments in schools.

Another competition open for 10 minutes plays can be found at The Sussex Playwrights Club web site.

Each of the winning plays were performed as a reading.

THE WINNERS ON VIDEO

If you want to view videos of the readings they are available here.

First place A foreign Country by Carol Breuer

Second place The Legacy by Michael Pearcy

Third place Complicit by Lorraine Forrest-Turner

Highly Commended was Not Drowning by Lee Taylor.