7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: Storytellers 2023

Monday 7 August 2023

Storytellers 2023

Donna and Noëlle both have readings as part of KXT’s 2023 Storytellers Festival, curated by Joanna Erskine in association with bAKEHOUSE Theatre. The festival runs for a week from Monday 14 to Sunday 20 August at KXT Theatre, corner of 181 Broadway & Mountain Street, Ultimo.

Donna’s play, Prevail, has its reading on Monday 14 August at 7:30 pm. Directed by Jane Schneider and performed by Susie Lindeman, Prevail is a deeply moving story about how a mother's love heals the soul of her dead son who was abused by a paedophile priest.

Noëlle’s play, The Devil Girls From Planet M, is a serious comedy about close encounters of an unexpected kind and making sense of your world when you feel like an alien. The reading is directed by Kate Gaul and is on Sunday 20 August at 5:00 pm.

For more info about the festival, and to book tickets, click HERE.

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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).