Sussex Playwrights
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We promote new writing for stage, screen, radio, audio and online. Our purpose is to encourage new work from writers throughout the English-speaking world.
Sussex Playwrights
3w ago
A tale of two tiny friends in a big battle to return to the sea A solo puppet show written and performed by Joanna Neary, at the Ledward LGBTQ+ centre. I came for a show – I discovered a happening, for a packed and rapt audience of parents and kids. The puppet show formed part ..read more
Sussex Playwrights
1M ago
Sheep Love to Die by Phil Tong ‘I feel like we’ve been shifted sideways, here but not …’ In a split second, something happened, with repercussions over many years. With shades of Beckett or Pinter, the play looks at why – reasons, or excuses? Two ladies, sisters, are trapped in burned out armchairs, in stark ..read more
Sussex Playwrights
10M ago
Sussex Playwrights Reviews: The Madness of George III By Alan Bennett The Sarah Mann Company Georgian sophistication in music, architecture, dress and art coupled with ghastly primitive approaches to medicine and mental health plus a decadent royal family – Bennett’s celebrated play captures that strange time when the world tipped over from centuries old ..read more
Sussex Playwrights
1y ago
Sussex Playwrights’ secretary Thomas Everchild delivered a workshop this week for the Hastings Writers Group, at the charming and characterful Regency Rooms bar, in the seafront Crown House, St Leonard’s. The group are preparing for their latest in-house writing competition; a short dramatic monologue. They invited Thomas, whose set of four solo plays under the ..read more
Sussex Playwrights
1y ago
A Sussex Playwrights Reviews Architecture for Beginners A new novel by Robert Cohen Published by Hobart Books Robert Cohen has created a monster. A larger than life faded football hero with enormous ambitions for movie stardom and a big vision for a new stadium – but something’s not right. Quite a lot isn’t right ..read more
Sussex Playwrights
2y ago
A new piece on the life and work of Donizetti from Magichour Productions, featuring live operatic performance ..read more
Sussex Playwrights
2y ago
Yasmina Reza's award winning 2008 play all feels very contemporary; a middle class comedy of manners for now, with the main theme 'what lies beneath ..read more
Sussex Playwrights
2y ago
Members and friends’ news: Jenny Rowe is currently appearing in the tour of the Connaught Theatre Worthing resident production company Conn Artists’ production of JM Barrie’s Mary Rose. https://www.conn-artists.co.uk/mary-rose Simon Moorhead & Emily Rosen-Rawlings’ production of the short film “Breathe” directed by Josh Merrit, made for Screen South, Arts Council and the BBC, showed at ..read more