Do you like new plays? Fancy yourself as a bit of a theatre critic?

Writer’s Avenue have been running new writing events throughout the year in the search to commission a play from a fresh new writer. We are now at the final stage where the finalist writers will compete to have their play produced.

The first twenty minutes of the best received plays from 2010 will be performed together. A top industry panel will score each play and YOU will vote for the play we produce in 2012!!!

FACE THE CAMERA AND SMILE

Written and Directed by Dan Horrigan

A young soldier struggles to come to terms with his injuries and re-adjusting to civilian life. Repressed memory and the struggle to be a good husband and father combine to create a drama that asks, how do you end conflict responsibly

CAST

Adam Berry,  Esther Shelmerdine, Martha Swann, William Belchambers

THE OTHER ROOF

Written by Clare Shaw

Directed by June Trask

Andy is on the roof, about to jump off, but his suicide is abruptly interrupted by the arrival of Bill who tries to stop him.... but only because he wants the use of the roof for himself. If the roof becomes known as a spot for jumpers, it will be shut off and Bill will lose his space for singing opera. It is singing opera which gives Bill’s life meaning. Andy, in contrast, carries the burden of guilt which has led him to his despair. Will Andy jump? This dark comedy is a take on Camus’ Myth of Sisyphus which asks ‘Is life worth living?’

CAST

SECONDS

Written by Alex Clarke

Directed by Adam Morley

A teenage girl is shot dead in Manchester. Her mother searches for reasons. Her grandmother for someone to blame. Both long for a sense of normality, but if in the briefest second your life changes forever, is it possible to ever live normally again? A story about living with loss and trying to find your way out of the dark.

CAST

Ella Moody, Jenny Walters, Gilly Daniels, Mark Starr, Oliver Stark and Sadie Pickering

Industry Judging Panel

Amy O’Neill      (Casting Director)

Bola Agbaje    (Playwright and film writer)

Caro Dixey      (Literary Manager)

Philip Gawthorne (Screen writer and Playwright)

Sarah Hughes   (Casting Director)

Simeilia Hodge Dallaway (Director)

David Lazenby-Richard Stone Partnership (Acting and Literary Agent)

Nicholas McInerny (Play, radio and screen writer)

17th, 18th and 19th January 2011 7:30pm

The Pleasance Theatre

Carpenters Mews
North Road
London
N7 9EF

Tickets £10 in advance £12 on the door

020 7609 1800

http://www.pleasance.co.uk/islington/events