The walrus has arrived! (and so have a stag and a bear 🦌 🐻 )
Tonight is the first preview for Wirral playwright Billie Collins’ gorgeous, funny and super theatrical new play The Walrus Has a Right to Adventure – complete with some live foley!
There are £10 tickets available for the show after tomorrow night’s Freelancers’ Mixer, and director Nathan Crossan-Smith is running a workshop exploring his approach to staging the impossible challenges of this script.
It’s only on until Saturday 21 June (!!!), so make sure you’ve got your tickets if you want to see it.
Tommo
New Works Associate
Coming up in the next month or so, we also have our final Meeting Points before closing for the summer:
- a free Production Process workshop on programming and booking tours
- Creative Co-working for all local freelancers making theatre
- an Open House with a focus on New Works.
And also I’m running a workshop for Box of Tricks tomorrow evening, exploring how plays for small casts can still be innovative and ambitious, and get as much as they can from their forms. Still a couple of spaces left!
(Plus we’ll finish in time to watch The Walrus Has a Right to Adventure – so you can see how Billie makes the most of three actors!)
Our annual script submissions window is OPEN – and we want to read your work!
Full details about what we’re looking for, and how the process works, are on our website.
We’re accepting scripts until 10am on Monday 30 June – and, as part of our commitment to local playwrights, we’ll offer written feedback on all submitted scripts.
Jobs & opportunities
All for writers today, I’m afraid…!
More Than One Story
Cardboard Citizens
Deadline: midnight, 30 June
Our friends at Cardboard Citizens, one of our Associate Companies, are doing an open call for monologues from writers with lived experience of homelessness or poverty – and yours could be published alongside writers like Chris Bush, Malorie Blackman, Inua Ellams and Matilda Ibini!
It’s just 1000 words! Well worth a look.
New Writers Scheme
Channel 4
Deadline: 6pm, Weds 25 June
This is a brilliant 9-month programme for unrepresented new writers looking to write TV drama.
Our pals at Writing on the Wall are running a creative writing programme for people who are economically inactive – i.e. not employed or self-employed. Take a look at their website for more info.
Ongoing offers at the Everyman
Writers’ Room
For those who haven’t spent time in it, the Writers’ Room is available for your use. With a library of fantastic scripts, it’s a great place to come and be inspired, do some co-working, or get round a table to read a new play.
You can either email me to book in advance, or just come to the Everyman and chance your luck! During open hours, the Writers’ Room is there for you to work in peace and quiet.
Street Café discounts
Did you know we have discounts for theatre professionals in the Everyman Street Café? Well, we do!
You can get 10% off food and non-alcoholic drinks if you’re:
- a paid-up union member of BECTU, Equity, Independent Theatres Council, Musicians Union, Stage Directors UK or the Writers Guild,
- having an Arts Emergency mentoring session, or
- participating in New Works activity (e.g. Production Process workshop, Creative Co-working, etc).
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