7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: Ears and Eyes!

Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Ears and Eyes!

Hello! Tis Vanessa here with you this week and HEY!...we just heard the outrageously fabulous news re Australian playwright Alana Valentine!

YAY ALANA! and congrats X 7 from all of us on winning the STAGE International Script Competition for best new play about science and technology. The play is called Ear To The Edge Of Time and was selected by a panel including Tony Kushner, David Lindsay-Abaire and Donald Margulies.

Also, just wanted to remind people about the book of monologues that 7-ON published this year (with the lovely people at The Federation Press). No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames is available at all brilliant bookshops like the one below...MacLeans in Beaumont St, Hamilton... Or why not go straight to the source by clicking on the little picture on the side of our blog which should send you here.

No Noodles (as I fondly, yet erroneously, refer to it sometimes) is chock-full of chewy monologuey goodness and also it made Miranda Otto go "Wow"* so that's a good thing, right? If you're auditioning for something or presenting your wonderful self and your acting talents in front of, say, a board of performing arts judges, or perhaps just looking for something to serve at a very smart dinner party between the main course and dessert then THIS IS YOUR BOOK!!!

*no honestly it did, it says so right on the cover: "Wow what a great book... Miranda Otto"

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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).