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Dateline: 19th October, 2010
Meyer-Whitworth Award Winner The 2010 Meyer-Whitworth Award has been won by Natasha Langridge for Shraddha which premiered at Soho Theatre in November 2009. The Award is worth £10,000 and is intended to help further the careers of UK playwrights who are not yet established and to draw public attention to the importance of writers in contemporary theatre. Shraddha tells the story of Romany girl Pearl and Joe, a boy from the local council estate and was inspired by the eviction of Romanies in Hackney in 2007, after which Langridge spent two years researching the subject. Judge Edward Kemp said, "It’s thrilling to encounter a playwright who first of all takes the time thoroughly to research an unseen corner of British culture, and then enters so passionately and creatively into the challenges of bringing that story to the stage." Trained at E15, Langridge is an actress, director and teacher of physical theatre as well as a writer. Previous winners of the prize include Philip Ridley, Diane Samuels, David Harrower, Conor McPherson, Dennis Kelly and Owen McCafferty.
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