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Dateline: 28th May, 2011
Bargate Winner Announced The winner of the biennial Verity Bargate Award for the best new play by an emerging writer is Thomas Eccleshare for his play Pastoral. The prize brings with it £5,000 prize and a production and residency at the Soho Theatre. The play, his first, is set in a world in which nature has taken over the high street and an old woman named Moll waits in her flat for the Ocado man. But when the trees and branches threaten to cut her off from the world, she is forced to leave home and make it in the wild forest that is the new England. Eccleshare is co-artistic director of the visual theatre company Dancing Brick. His was one of 900 submissions for the award, which commemorates the founder of the Soho Theatre who died in 1981. The runners up were Tim Price for Will and George, Janice Okoh for The Real House, Lee Mattinson for Crocodiles and Olga Nikora for Tightrope Bonnie. The judging panel were former Verity Bargate Award winner Insook Chappell, directors Kathy Burke and Gordon Anderson, playwrights Roy Williams, Anthony Neilson and Paul Sirett, designer Tom Scutt and Headlong producer Henny Finch. Former VBA winners include Diane Samuels, Judy Upton, Bonnie Greer, Fraser Grace, Nina Raine and Toby Whithouse and Matt Charman. "What is utterly stunning," said Soho's artistic director Steve Marmion, "is that our team of nearly twenty readers and our panel of judges all came to the same conclusion about which play should win."
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