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Dateline: 29th October, 2009
ACE Sustains Live Newcastle's Live Theatre has been awaded £923,000 (one of the largest awards from the scheme) from the Arts Council’s Sustain fund. Jim Beirne, chief executive, said, "The investment will be directed into four key strategic areas. As with the majority of successful applicants a percentage will be used to cover the loss of income from trusts, foundations and sponsorship that has been caused as a result of the recession and cover the loss of rental income. A small proportion will pay for minor tweaks to be made to the infrastructure of the building in order to make it more environmentally friendly and resource effective. The remainder will be invested in two key pioneering social enterprises."
The theatre, which owns the leasehold on 25b Broad Chare, once home to Café Live, will invest in the capital development of the building, in partnership with the Cafe 21 group, to create a new eatery and drinking establishment which will generate an annual income for the theatre. This money will then be invested back into Live Theatre’s core business. The second area of investment is Live’s digital enterprise focusing on the company’s aim to encourage, nurture and develop new writing. Following the success of the theatre’s annual ‘Introduction to Playwriting’ course, a five week programme delivered at the theatre providing a practical insight into how to write a play, a tailor-made online version of the course has been created.
£100,000 will be invested in completing this online script-writing project which will allow budding playwrights from across the world to take part in the course and learn the art of playwriting from the comfort of their own home.
Participants will be able to watch video clips of some of the country’s leading writers including Lee Hall (The Pitmen Painters, Billy Elliot), Alan Plater (Looking For Buddy, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells) and Shelagh Stephenson (The Long Road) talk about how to start writing a play, its structure, characters, dialogue and theatricality as well as their advice on how to get a play produced.
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