Monthly Archives: December 2015

Use active dialogue, it’s ok to keep the audience in the dark and follow your own style, #topwritingtips #12newplaywrightsin12months

Posted on December 31, 2015 by lucyaverywrites

So what makes a good play? This is the question I’ve been asking myself this year as I challenged myself to read or see 1 play by a playwright I haven’t looked at before each month to broaden my range of … Continue reading →

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‘A play is a backward explosion’, That Face by Polly Stenham, December’s playwright #12newplaywrightsin12months

Posted on December 16, 2015 by lucyaverywrites

Part of the Royal Court Young Writers Group, Stenham was 18 when she wrote That Face, the play she submitted at the end of the course that went on to be produced at the Royal Court and the West End. … Continue reading →

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‘My first play, Foxfinder, was read, liked, but not produced by basically the theatres that accept scripts’ Dawn King, November’s playwright #12newplaywrightsin12months

Posted on December 5, 2015 by lucyaverywrites

‘My first play, Foxfinder, was read, liked, but not produced by basically the theatres that accept scripts – and not just in London. I’d had lots of meetings with people who said they liked it, but that it was a … Continue reading →

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