7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: Coupla things ...

Wednesday 2 March 2016

Coupla things ...

It was great that The Seven Needs had another outing, and we hope both audiences and creatives had a good time with those ongoing scripts.

But life doesn’t stand still so ... next!

A few things on or coming up.

Articles in the AWG’s current Storyline http://www.awg.com.au/news-18/storyline.html from Donna (The Long Haul) and Verity (The Strands Which Bind) – actually, VL takes no responsibility for that title, but there will be no further comment on that – and the lovely Ms Bell working round the clock towards the NSW Writers’ Centre Playwriting Festival http://www.nswwc.org.au/whats-on/festivals-2/playwriting-festival-2016/

Someone quite clever once said that persons should make sure to attend two (2) conferences or suchlike in their field every year, that this was the minimum one needed in order to be an effective member of one's community. So here’s your chance folks – or Sydneysider folks at least.

Saturday March 19^TH, 10.00 a.m. to 6.30 pm. Get on down!

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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).