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Dateline: 6th July, 2003 A Week of Drama at the Tobacco Factory Ten new stage and radio plays will be making their first appearance at the nationally-recognised Tobacco Factory next week. They are all winning entries in the Southwest Scriptwriters annual drama competition. The week-long festival of new plays, each starting at 7.45pm, will begin on Monday 14th of July with "Matthew's Splinter" and "Interviewing Alice" by Heather Lister. On Tuesday 15th July, "Honeysuckle Cottage" by Bruce Fellows and "Freehold & Free" by Ann Gawthorpe and Lesley Bown, will be performed. Wednesday 16th July will bring "Falling Through" by Shiona Morton and "The Breakaway Blues" by Eileen O'Haire. "The Radicals" by Mark Breckon will be shown on Thursday 17th of July. Friday the 18th July offers "Fly Me To The Moon" by Ed Viney and "Percy" by William House. The week will climax with a production of "The Trials of Thomas Weaving", overall winner of the competition on Saturday 19th of July. Tickets are available from the Tobacco Factory box office on 0117 902 0344. Southwest Scriptwriters is a new-writing workshop based at the Bristol Old Vic. It works to promote stage, screen and radio writing in the area, using a mixture of talks, courses and reading workshops to develop and encourage new work. Former group presidents include writer of the hit West End musical "Mamma Mia!", Catherine Johnson, and the creator of "Cold Feet", Mike Bullen. Current members have won a number of awards and written episodes of TV series such as BBC1's "Doctors" and ITV's "The Bill". Scriptwriters' artistic director, Tim Massey, called this year's readings the most exciting yet; "We're putting on ten plays this year as opposed to last year's six and the standard of the work just keeps getting better and better," he said. For Southwest Scriptwriters membership enquiries, call JOHN COLBORN on 0117 909 5522. For more information on Southwest Scriptwriters, call ANDREW GRAHAM on 01225 337797 or email info@southwest-scriptwriters.co.uk.
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