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PANZ Playwrights News Patron: John Dunmore, C.N.Z.M., DLit. President: Colin Beardon [email protected] Vice-President: Angie Farrow [email protected] Membership Secretary & Treasurer: Richard Bull [email protected] https://newzealandplaywrights.wordpress.com PLAYWRIGHTS NEWS June 2018 Vol 27 Issue 3 This year's One Act Play Competition closed on 30th April and attracted 25 entries. All the scripts are now with the adjudicator and the results are due to be announced in July. Angie Farrow is busy organising a weekend workshop and rehearsed reading of the top three plays to be held in Palmerston North in November. Meanwhile our second competition of the year, the 10-Minute Play Competition, will open on 1st July, closing on 31st August. A great opportunity to put those long winter evenings to good use and to devise some sizzling plots to warm us up! This is the first time, at least in recent history, that PANZ has held two competitions in the same year and while it has been extra work it is a healthy sign that PANZ is alive and well. Special thanks to all those who have made it happen: Christine, Kerrie, Rex, Richard and our adjudicators. We are now just over a month away from the first ever New Zealand Theatre Month in September. This isn’t just a celebration of New Zealand theatres (as important as they are) but at least equally it is a celebration of New Zealand play writing. The focus should, where possible, be on staging plays by New Zealand writers, and that means people like you. During September we can expect national and, in some cases, local media coverage. I hope you have been able to persuade your local drama group to put on a New Zealand play or at least mark the event in some way. I especially hope that you have persuaded them put on one of yours, but if they won’t then don’t forget you can always put it on yourself. Probably too late for this year but as NZTM will become an annual event there will be more opportunities in the future. Colin Beardon President of PANZ Playwrights Association of New Zealand Newsletter – June 2018 1 PLAYWRIGHTS ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND 10-MINUTE PLAY COMPETITION 2018 Adjudicator: Richard Harris Enquiries and submissions to: [email protected] Website: newzealandplaywrights.wordpress.com RULES: 1. Only members of PANZ may enter the competition. Membership is open to any person who is a long-term resident of New Zealand or is residing here for the whole of 2018. The annual membership fee is $25. To join see: newzealandplaywrights.wordpress.com or email [email protected]. 2. There is no additional entry fee for the competition; your membership subscription is your entry fee. 3. A member may submit one play. 4. Scripts must be suitable for performing on stage. 5. Plays must have a playing time of between 7 and 10 minutes. 6. Scripts should contain the title, a list of characters and the setting but no synopsis. The dialogue should be clearly laid out and easily distinguishable from stage directions. 7. The name of the author(s) and/or their contact details must not appear anywhere on the script. 8. The script must not be an adaptation of anyone else’s previously published or performed work. We advise that you check copyright if quoting previously published work. 9. The play must not have been performed before a paying audience before 1 September 2018. 10. Entries open 1 July 2018 and close 31 August 2018. 11. Entries must be submitted by email to [email protected] attaching a completed Entry Form and the script as a Word file. 12. Results will be announced in November 2018. 13. The Adjudicator will select a First Place (cash prize of $100), a Second Place and a Third Place. 14. All three place winners will be invited to a workshop later in 2018 organised by Playmarket where a professional script advisor, director and professional actors will help develop their winning plays. This will be held in Wellington or Auckland. 15. All rights of each play will remain with the author. ____________________________________________________________________________________ The competition registrar is Kerrie Anne Spicer. Playwrights Association of New Zealand Newsletter – June 2018 2 10-MINUTE PLAY COMPETITION ADJUDICATOR’S CRITERIA The 10-minute play competition has opened for entries and no doubt many of you will be putting pen to paper. As the adjudicator, I will be matching each entry to set criteria. This enables a flat playing field for assessing all the plays. As you are no doubt aware the plays will be anonymous and will be judged purely on their merit. The criteria are as follows: • Eligibility Does the play meet the rules of the competition? No marking is given for this. Failure to adhere to the rules will mean it is not judged and you will not be informed of such. In a competition of a short or full-length play this can be tricky. I know of a play that was once read aloud by the author, who timed it at 40 minutes. At a subsequent workshop reading it ran for 55 minutes. It’s a bummer when you believe you’ve submitted a masterpiece and you hear no more, because, unknowingly, it has been rejected by judges who disagreed with your timing estimate. 10-minute plays are easier and there’ll be a degree of latitude. But don’t push it…. The following criteria are a guide only. After all, this is simply a 10-minute sketch. It has to catch the imagination immediately and have a ‘wrap up’ ending. • Plot: Creativity. Development and originality. • Characterisation: Differentiation of characters and credibility. • Dialogue: Economy of language. Flow and relevance to plot. • Audience Appeal: Entertaining. Is not didactic. • Production: Fit for the stage. Simple set. Feasible casting. Reasonable FX, sound and lighting demands. Of all these criteria, the most important to keep in mind is audience appeal. Would I pay to see this play? After all, getting from page to stage is what theatre is about. Profanities are fine. And in fact can be powerful if relevant. As is political incorrectness, and blasphemy if in context. Good luck to all entrants. I’m looking forward to reading your material. Richard Harris Playwrights Association of New Zealand Newsletter – June 2018 3 MEMBERS' NEWS REX McGREGOR Rex McGregor’s short comedy Ebook Meets Treebook won the AUDIENCE FAVORITE AWARD at Stage It! Center for Performing Arts, Bonita Springs, Florida, 28-29 April, directed by Laura Schueneman. The script is published in Stage It! 2 : Thirty 10-Minute Plays. Luis Pages (Guy) and Kathryn Huffer (Gal) in Ebook Meets Treebook, Bonita Springs, Florida Safe Trip had a reading at the Pittsburgh New Works Festival Original Play Readings, Higher Voice Studio, Carnegie, Pennsylvania, 7 May. Kaitlin Cliber (Narrator), Lonnie Jantsch (Shirelle), Joel Ambrose (Nick) & Lindsay Goranson (Taz) reading Safe Trip Playwrights Association of New Zealand Newsletter – June 2018 4 Flight of the Cows was a nominee for Best Play at Take Ten Festival 2018, Between Us Productions, Jewel Box Theater, New York, NY, 16-20 May, directed by Susane Lee. Daniela Kaplun (Lucille), George K. Wells (Tiger), Lisa LaGrande (Clover) in Flight of the Cows, New York Her Daughter's Doll had a staged reading at Nouveau Nights: 20 Year Anniversary of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Nouveau Riché, CLF Art Cafe, London, 14 June, directed by Abigail Sewell. Playwrights Association of New Zealand Newsletter – June 2018 5 FRANCES EDMOND Frances Edmond has been selected as the third New Zealand writer to join the Shanghai Writers’ Association’s International Writing Program. Frances is a Waiheke Island based writer and reviewer who works across disciplines in film, theatre and literature. Her project for the residency is to complete a new draft of a screenplay for a film about Kathleen Hall; an unsung heroine. During the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s, this unassuming New Zealand missionary nurse risked her life to smuggle supplies through enemy lines in aid of Canadian doctor, Norman Bethune who was appointed by Mao Zedong as Medical Advisor to the Communist Army. Kathleen’s story is that of a remarkable New Zealander waiting to be told. Ironically Kathleen is much better known in China than she is in her native New Zealand. This opportunity is available through a partnership between the Michael King Writers’ Centre, the New Zealand China Friendship Society, the Shanghai Writers’ Association and the Shanghai People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. Frances says: “I am both honoured and thrilled. The film project about Kathleen Hall is very close to my heart and I think it is such an important New Zealand story and being able to work on a new draft in China is an amazing opportunity”. Frances will join writers from Argentina, Spain, Israel, Russia, USA, and Poland for two months in Shanghai in September and October this year. The writers receive free accommodation in an inner-city apartment, a small stipend for living expenses and air travel. More details in the full media release. ____________________________________________________________________________________ STEFAN ALDERSON Stefan Alderson’s play Don’t Date Androids is on at BATS, Wellington, 21-30 June, directed by Devon Nuku, featuring James Bayliss and Jamie Fenton. Playwrights Association of New Zealand Newsletter – June 2018 6 APRIL PHILLIPS April Phillips’ comedies SNiP and Bonking James Bond were produced by Taieri Dramatic Society, Fire Station Theatre, Mosgiel, 10-19 May, directed by David Thomson. Keith Richardson, Alison Cowan and Rob Monzari in Bonking James Bond, Mosgiel Swingers will be produced by Cas ‘n’ Ova Productions at the Performing Arts Centre, Heaton Intermediate School, Christchurch, 12-21 July, directed by Craig Hutchison.
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