7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: WE ARE LAUNCHED.

Saturday, 5 June 2021

WE ARE LAUNCHED.

SHARP DARTS: CHAMBER PLAYS BY 7-ON was formally launched last night at Gleebooks.

Introduced by Verity...

first, a fine performance of 'Small Hard Truths', by Vanessa Bates,

a play about two world-weary garden gnomes,

featuring Vanessa and Ned, in hats.

The champagne bottle was smashed against the side of the ship by Louise Gough. Hip hip hooray!

Mid-festivities, a 7-ON snap with that great stalwart of new Australian playwriting, May-Brit Akerholt.

A big shout-out to Louise for her beautiful speech, to Gleebooks for hosting us, to all at Currency for making it happen. And thank you to all our friends and loved ones for being there to celebrate with us: it meant the world.

SHARP DARTS: CHAMBER PLAYS BY 7-ON is now officially out in the world. Order your copy through Currency Press, or Australian Plays Transform.

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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).