7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: February 2012

Wednesday 15 February 2012

Coming Soon ...

NO NUDITY, WEAPONS OR NAKED FLAMES is our collection of monologues for drama students, aspiring and established actors, and anyone interested in short form work, new writing, and solo performance.

The 7 of us have contributed 3 monologues a piece. We've written notes to accompany each script, and there's all sorts of other useful information to help anyone studying drama or wanting to perform one or more of the 21 monologues in this book.

NO NUDITY, WEAPONS OR NAKED FLAMES is published by The Federation Press, and will be available from early March 2012. Find out more here.

Friday 3 February 2012

'White Divers' reviewed

Hilary says: Just got back from Perth, where Black Swan has done an absolutely breathtaking production, inhabited by a powerful cast and manned by dauntless mechs. Here's our first review. Read all about it here.

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).