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Afsaneh Gray
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Writer for stage, screen and your ears. Audible original drama The Other Woman now available. It's weird.
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Bravo @hightidetheatre.bsky.social ! The Writers Group is back. Check out this brilliant opportunity 🔽
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HighTide Writers Group to return in 2025
HighTide Writers Group is to return in 2025 with My Mother's Funeral: The Show playwright Kelly Jones at the helm
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January 9, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Charmed by The Importance Of Being Ernest at the National Theatre ...
January 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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📢Announcing: the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2025. Bigger, bolder, brighter.

Submissions will open on Monday 13th January and close on Tuesday 22nd April 2025.
December 5, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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Announcing: PROJEKT EUROPA return to NDT on 23rd January 2025 with another set of First Drafts - a unique snapshot of the extraordinary creativity and diversity of migrant performance in the UK. This event sold out earlier this year, so please book in plenty of time.
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First Drafts | Whats On | New Diorama
New Diorama Theatre is a pioneering studio theatre in the heart of London. Over the last 10 years New Diorama has been at the heart of a new movement in British theatre, dedicated to providing a home ...
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December 3, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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From BBC Writers: There's 1 day left to submit your script to our Open Call (deadline 3rd Dec at noon). Don't leave it until the last minute as if you have any issues we're likely to be very busy. No late submissions will be accepted. Full details here bbc.co.uk/writers/opport…
https://bbc.co.uk/writers/opport…
December 2, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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Applications for the MGCfutures 2024 Bursary Programme are open. If you have been working professionally within the theatre industry for at least two years and are looking to take your career in a new direction or to the next level, find out more here:

https://buff.ly/40FMCqZ
December 2, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Rivals sure smuggles in a lot of smarts for a show about bonking...
December 3, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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Hello? Is there anybody there?
December 3, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Great article, as always from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.'

The week's column

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‘Woke’ didn’t lose the US election: the patrician class who hijacked identity politics did | Nesrine Malik
Why is this simple explanation being so widely embraced? Because it does not require a commitment to real, structural change, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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Artist development programme with @headlongtheatre.bsky.social for early career directors from outside of London. Includes £5000 bursary and 12 months of development support.
Deadline for applications 10am 27th November.

www.headlong.co.uk/origins
Origins — Headlong
www.headlong.co.uk
November 20, 2024 at 6:00 AM
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Public service announcement! 📢Woke up early so made a playwrights starter pack! Far from exhaustive so please message me if you’d like to be added❤️✍🏽 go.bsky.app/MrCbp2Q #theatre #playwights
November 19, 2024 at 7:09 AM
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Unable to come to the #PlaywrightsChristmasParty on 26/11 7pm at Royal Court? You can join us online for a Free Festive Creative Check-in led by @naomiwesterman.bsky.social at the same time. 60 min to chat, vent, give/get support. #SupportPlaywrights PlsShare

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Free Festive Creative Check-In: Writers - With Naomi Westerman
Festive Check-In for Playwrights & Screenwriters - who are unable to attend the Playwrights Christmas Party in person!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 17, 2024 at 9:23 PM
So glad I caught The Buddha of Suburbia @barbican.bsky.social - a love letter to theatre and much needed ray of hope.
November 16, 2024 at 10:37 PM