7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: April 2013

Tuesday 23 April 2013

No Nudity, Weapons and Naked Flames at the Tap Gallery

Coming up very soon at Sydney’s Tap Gallery is No Nudity,Weapons or Naked Flames. The season is a part of the Mayday! PlaywrightsFestival organised and curated by Augusta Supple and Jeremy Waters. 7-ON takes the first week of the festival with a selection of 6 monologues from our book No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames, published by The Federation Press last year.

The program: A Cleansing Force by Donna Abela; The World’s Tiniest Monkey by Vanessa Bates; Delia’s Clothes by Hilary Bell; iSpiderman by Noëlle Janaczewska; Ella by Verity Laughton & SexEd by Ned Manning.

Director: Augusta Supple.

Actors: Alice Ansara, Megan Drury, Suz Mawer, Kate Skinner, Jennifer White & Stephen Wilkinson.

No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames runs from Wednesday 8—Saturday 11 May at 8:00 pm. More info about ticket prices etc at the Tap Gallery.

For more info about the Mayday! Playwrights Festival.

Hope to see you at the Tap next month.

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).