7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: A View From Moving Windows

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

A View From Moving Windows

Three of 7-ON (Donna, Vanessa & Noëlle) are in a new multi-playwright project, A View From Moving Windows. Directed by Gus Supple, it's part of Parramatta Riverside Theatre's True West season, and it previews this week. The project also has a website and a pretty lively blog.

Hope to see you in Parramatta next week.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Having never come across any blog like yours before, it is very exciting to stumble across a collective with similar interests and passion for the theatrical arts.

The approach to theatrical works and peformances in a group setting proves that working as a group is better then working as one. How diverse are opinions and approaches to work within this group?; 16 October 2012 at 21:23
7-ON said...: Thanks for your comment, stf. To start from your last question first - we all think we are really really different as writers, and that's part of the fun and stimulation of working together. It also means, hopefully, that when we make a work as a group, there will be many streams of influence and interest within the piece. It's not so much that 'working as a group is better than working as one' because we decided right at the beginning of our group that commitment to our individual careers had to take precedence if there was a conflict at any time. But there is no doubt at all that HAVING the group to bounce off, reassure, whinge to, and make much of when any of us has a bit of a win has been a real positive in this really rather difficult climate for a playwright in Australia.; 19 October 2012 at 22:45

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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).