7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: WE ARE THE GHOSTS OF THE FUTURE

Wednesday 21 October 2015

WE ARE THE GHOSTS OF THE FUTURE

With only 22 sleeps till our first preview, we are going to tantalise you with little fragments of who and what goes into making this show. Check back in regularly for interviews, pictures, snatches of dialogue, and other stuff.

Hilary says:
This image is one from the collection 'City of Shadows' that served as inspiration for my playlet. The photo of Lewis Stanley Keith and Neville McQuade (aged 18 & 19) was taken at North Sydney Police Court, where they were detained for a week. Lewis is trying to make the best of it, but Neville's face says it all. Clothes are one thing, but how did these boys 'of insufficient means' (one of their alleged crimes) find shoes to fit? I guess the answer is they didn't: Neville's heel is poking out a good two inches.

And this photo (from the same collection) is another stimulus. I won't say any more. For now.

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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).