March 5th 2023 meeting

About the March 2023 meeting

All are welcome to attend our March meeting this Sunday 5th.

Advance notice There will shortly be a formal call for entries to Sussex Playwrights 2023 script writing competition.

Last time we had 48 entries. As before, this time we’ll be calling for volunteer readers to help review the entries and establish a long list and short list.

The competition will open for entries very soon. More details on the night.

See www.sussexplaywrights.co.uk and our Sussex Playwrights Facebook Page for news about the competitions as it develops.

Play readings We’re inviting you to bring along your short 10 minute two-hander pieces for reading and discussing on the night. Work in progress, performance-ready pieces, stage, audio, film scripts – everything welcome!

Members’ news Congratulations to Robert Cohen whose new novel Architecture for Beginners has just been published. www.waterstones.com/book/architecture-for-beginners/robert-cohen/9781914322143

Robert will be reading from and discussing his new novel at the April meeting.

Congratulations to Judy Upton whose Sussex set mystery thriller ‘Sniff Them Out, Brownlow!’ www.waterstones.com/book/sniff-them-out-brownlow/judy-upton/9781914322136 has a lovely review in the new issue of Ingenue Magazine p68 www.ingenuemagazine.co.uk/

Meeting details

Sunday March 5th 7-9pm

New Venture Theatre
Bedford Place
Brighton
BN1 2PT

In the bar as usual

Free to Sussex Playwrights members

Guests and friends: £3 on the door – includes wine/juice

February meeting

We read and discussed two extracts from plays in progress:

The Big Interview by John Laurenson

and

Shillingworth by Dave Patchett

May 2018 meeting

Constance Cox competition runners up performances

Our May 6th meeting presented rehearsed recorded readings by professional actors of the two runners up in the most recent Constance Cox playwriting competition.

 

Second prize: ‘Storm in a League Cup’ by Simon Josiffe

Performed by:

Paul Moriarty as Barry, the football team manager

Tom Dussek as Green, the antlered forest spirit

Sorcha Brooks as Julia, the sports journalist

Murray Simon as Commentator

And featuring … The Audience as the football crowd

Directed by Thomas Everchild

Produced by Philippa Hammond

A Sussex Playwrights Production

 

Third prize: ‘Rock and Chips’ by David Weir

Performed by:

Murray Simon as Bill

Philippa Hammond as Martina

Tom Dussek as Fantoni

Paul Moriarty as Mr Chips and the Barman

Directed by Thomas Everchild

Produced by Philippa Hammond

A Sussex Playwrights Production

 

The plays will be reviewed by Simon Jenner in due course

Both playwrights were our guests on the night, together with John Dutton, whose play The Teaswell Incident won first prize and was performed and recorded in October 2017.

All three plays are in post production and will be available for download soon.