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The New Plays Competition 2024 – Finalists Announced!
Arts Richmond is delighted to announce the four finalists in the New Plays Competition 2024: our celebration of original writing by local playwrights.
We received an incredible 54 submissions, and the quality was as impressively high as the quantity! So our panel of readers faced a very difficult challenge. However, after much discussion and deliberation, they have whittled the entries down to four finalists.
They are:
• 'Sky Horses' by Patricia Bertram
• 'That's All Folks' by Jacqueline Hazell
• 'The Boot Room' by Rebecca Mayhew
• 'Common Ground' by Dominic Parford
Our hearty congratulations to all four.
This short-listed quartet will be performed at the Orange Tree Theatre on Sunday 13th October at 15.00, in front of a paying audience and a judging panel of professional theatre practitioners. The latter will then select the final winning script, and the Mayor of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames will present the winning writer with their trophy and prize.
If you would like to join us for this exciting event, tickets are only £10 and available at https://artsrichmond.org.uk/arts-richmond-events. Numbers are strictly limited, so do please book now!