Writing opportunity at NTC

Published: 11 April 2015
Reporter: Peter Lathan

Northumberland Theatre Company

NTC has received funding to produce A Wife or the Gallows and Other Telling Tales, a new, northern Canterbury Tales for family audiences, which will tour nationally in autumn 2015. The company is now looking for an emerging north-based writer to join the writing team for this project.

The production will comprise of six tale-telling misadventures with comic, sad, bawdy stories in the vein of The Canterbury Tales, drawing upon the working roots of the region, including fishing, mining, farming and ship building. Writers may be complete beginners or have had one professional production of their work. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend a two-day workshop in Alnwick, Northumberland, in May 2015, before a successful writer is selected.

The Workshops will be:

  1. Basic playwrighting ‘tools’ required to present your work/ideas: including layout, structure, character and plot.
  2. Adapting an extant story for theatrical presentation.

These workshops will be lead by Ann Coburn, published playwright, author and Royal Literary Fund Fellow, and Stewart Howson, playwright and published author, and actor.

The chosen writer will have his or her work professionally produced and will receive a fee of £1,000.

Full application details will be found on the company's web site.

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