7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: Conspirators

Saturday 19 January 2008

Conspirators

Rehearsals begin on Monday 21st January for Bell Shakespeare's Actors at Work shows for 2008. Written by 7ON's Ned Manning, AAW plays to over 60,000 school students throughout Australia. Ned has been commissioned to write AAW scripts since 2005 and has now written eight 45 minute plays for the Company. Seven of these plays are now in Repertory and will be programmed depending on the needs of teachers and students. A new play, Conspirators, has been written by Ned and will be seen for the first time this year. Conspirators brings together Othello and Julius Caesar and focuses on the notion of political and personal conspiracy. Issues such as bullying and peer group pressure are woven into a discussion of text, language and Shakespeare's world.

1 comment:

7-ON said...: Ned, are these scripts available - either through Bell or maybe the Oz Script Centre? They sound like a fantastic resource.
Verity; 21 January 2008 at 10:50

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About 7-ON

7-ON Playwrights was established in 2005 by Donna Abela, Catherine Zimdahl, Ned Manning, Noëlle Janaczewska, Vanessa Bates, Verity Laughton and Hilary Bell. Seven minds that don’t think alike but are simpatico in this—our belief in the transformative properties of our artform and its place in Australian culture. With over 200 plays between us, our work has been produced on stages across Australia. Internationally, we have been produced in Botswana, the US, the UK, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany, Denmark, France, Canada, Vietnam, Korea and Japan. We have over 40 awards between us including: 14 Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, 4 Griffin Playwriting Awards, 3 Premiers’ Literary Awards, 4 Inscription Awards, an Adelaide Critics’ Circle Prize, a Phillip Parsons Young Playwright’s Award, a Wyndham Campbell Prize, a Centenary Medal, a Patrick White Playwrights’ Fellowship, and a Human Rights Award for Drama. As 7-ON we advocate for playwrights, initiate performance and publishing projects, and support and celebrate each other’s work. We create projects that are best served by a multitude of voices. These have included The Seven Needs (Griffin, 2007), Thus Spake Zarathustra (Wollongong University, 2008), Long Shadows (STC workshop, 2009), Platonic (Hothouse development, 2013), We Are The Ghosts Of The Future (Rocks Discovery Museum, 2015), and various works under the banner of Old Texts Revisited (ABC Radio, 2009), I Contain Multitudes (Novemberism Playwriting Festival, 2011) and No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames (MayDay! Playwrights’ Festival, 2013) which presented a selection of monologues from our anthology of the same name published by the Federation Press in 2012. We are also included in Currency Press’ anthology of short plays Short Circuit (2009).