Submissions open for The Bread & Roses Playwriting Award 2018/2019
& for Clapham Fringe 2018
The Bread & Roses Theatre is once again opening their submission window for playwrights through their biennial Playwriting Award.
The Bread & Roses Playwriting Award is a competition for full length theatre plays that have not previously been produced or published and feature at least half of female, non-binary or gender neutral roles. Up to 3 winning plays will receive a professional production at The Bread & Roses Theatre (& 10% of box office income) as well as publication by The Bread & Roses Theatre (& royalty from all sales). Submissions for the award are open until 31st May 2018 and can be made at www.breadandrosestheatre.co.uk/playwriting-award. The judging process is anonymous and playwrights from across Europe may submit on this occasion.
The winning play of the 2016/2017 award, The Black Eye Club by Phil Charles, was staged last November to great acclaim and two runner-ups have productions in 2018, with The Buzz by Lydia Rynne set for production and publication this coming May.
Furthermore the theatre is also accepting submissions of theatre productions, comedy and other variety performances for the Clapham Fringe Festival taking place at the venue from 27th September to 14th October 2018. The Clapham Fringe has been hailed as an “egalitarian performing arts festival [that] aims to celebrate and foster emerging talent by offering an affordable stage for comedy and drama” (South West Londoner) and is now in its fourth year. Submissions are open until 3rd June 2018 and can be made at www.ClaphamFringe.com .
The Bread & Roses Theatre is a 40- to 60-seat innovative and award-winning fringe venue developed since 2012 and officially launched in November 2014, located above The Bread & Roses Pub in Clapham. Artistic quality, equality and diversity are at the forefront of the theatre’s programming, which features visiting companies as well as in-house productions, with a focus on new writing, underrepresented voices and distinctive work. In every full year of its existence the theatre has been a recipient of the ICWP 50/50 Applause Award and the press has described it as ‘one of the most exciting ones amongst the London pub theatres’ (RemoteGoat), ‘an extremely ethical organisation’ (London Pub Theatres Magazine), and ‘a new wave of venues (….) – all on the sort of sweetheart deals of old.’ (The Guardian).