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Dateline: 11th February, 2007
British Asian Winning Writers Announced The winners of the BANG! - British Asian New Generation - new writing competition created by a partnership between Oldham Coliseum Theatre, Tamasha Theatre Company and BBC Writersroom and supported by Media Training North West have been announced The winner was Yorkshire-based Aisha Khan, who submitted an extract from a play she has been working on for some time, On The East Side. Suda Bhuchar, artistic director of Tamasha, said of Aisha's script, "The characters are beautifully drawn and full of depth and history. It is well-structured and complete, with spare dialogue and a lot of subtext." The second prize went to Ishy Din from Middlesbrough, and third prize to Punam Ramchurn, who works as the new writing resource co-ordinator at Manchester's Contact Theatre. The competition for a fifteen minute script or extract from a longer play about the British Asian experience was launched in September 2006 and accompanied by writing workshops in eight towns and cities across the north of England. Nearly seventy submissions were received, and the shortlist was judged by a panel that included the Coliseum's artistic director Kevin Shaw, Tamasha's Suda Bhuchar, the BBC's Kate Rowland, writer Avie Luthra (Canterbury Tales and Indian Dream) and actor Shobna Gulati (Coronation Street and Where The Heart Is). The three winners will be awarded a BBC bursary and will work closely with Tamasha and the Coliseum to develop their scripts for the stage. Kevin Shaw of the Coliseum said, "I was really impressed with the quality of the writing and am looking forward to the showcase and to working with the writers to develop their scripts further." Kate Rowlands said that the BBC is "delighted to be funding the writer bursaries for this competition. It's a fantastic opportunity for talented writers to develop their ideas and writing with the support of the theatre and BBC production departments." David Chadderton Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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