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Dateline: 28th April, 2004

Verity Bargate Award: Applications Invited

The Verity Bargate Award is the national playwriting competition for new writers

Win £3,500, a residency at Soho Theatre and the opportunity to have your play staged in the heart of London's West End.

The Verity Bargate Award was established by Soho Theatre Company in 1982 to honour the memory of the company's co-founder. The Award is presented biennially to identify and celebrate the most outstanding new play by an emerging playwright.

The Award is open to any writer resident in the British Isles and Republic of Ireland and writers may submit one unproduced, unpublished full-length play. The VBA 2004 was launched on 22 April and over the next three months a series of workshops and masterclasses will be held at regional theatres around the country. To submit a play, download the application pack including rules, guidelines and monitoring form.

Entry deadline: 13 August 2004.

The prize

• £3,500 (in respect of exclusive option)
• A residency at Soho Theatre + Writers' Centre
• Opportunity to have winning play produced at Soho Theatre + Writers' Centre

The rules

• Writers must be resident in the British Isles or Republic of Ireland
• Plays must be full length (no shorter than 70 minutes), unproduced, unpublished, unencumbered by third party rights and written in English
• There is no restriction to subject matter
• Entries are limited to one play per writer and will not be accepted by email
• The judges' decision is final
• The following are not eligible: playwrights with three or more professional productions to their credit (defined as those produced under ITC/TWU/WGGB contracts), plays commissioned by Soho Theatre Company, previous Verity Bargate Award winners, plays that have previously been rejected by Soho Theatre Company
• On entering the competition, the writer agrees to grant Soho Theatre Company an exclusive option to produce the play according to the Company's standard licence agreement

To enter, send your script with:

• Two SAE's (with appropriate postage) for acknowledgement letter and return of script
• A title page with author's name, address and telephone number
• Your CV listing all plays written and produced, when and where
• A completed monitoring form

to

The Verity Bargate Award,
Soho Theatre + Writers' Centre,
21 Dean Street,
London W1D 3NE

Workshops

Playwrights can get a head start on submissions for this year's Verity Bargate Award with a workshop led by Soho Theatre's Writers' Centre Director, Nina Steiger. A series of open-access workshops are being set up around the country to offer writers on every level a fresh approach to the basic building blocks of writing (or re-writing) a new play. These sessions will be open to all and can be booked directly through our partner venues. Full details will be online in May.

Additional Masterclasses will also be set up across the UK for specific writers groups. These are not open to the public but will be listed online for information. If you would like more information on booking a masterclass for your organisation, please email writers@sohotheatre.com.

Download the application pack

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