7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: A Cyber Treat

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

A Cyber Treat

This is Donna crawling out of the sludge, surveying the domestic carnage that is wrought when one has to cancel one's life and Get That Play Done. Jump For Jordan did get done, as of yesterday, a full length black comedy about arranged marriage suspicions within a Jordanian-Australian family. Before I fall into a heap, and because my life of late has been entirely lived through the computer screen, I just want to acknowledge a cyber treat from down south, Tom Healy's monthly missives from the Australian Script Centre. They come in threes, recommending plays suitable for community, school or tertiary audiences. They are quite a distraction, because I usually want to find out about that play I saw, missed, must read. Advocacy and promotion with heart. (And another imminent production of my Tales From The Arabian Nights because of their invaluable catalogue). Top job Tom and team.

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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).