7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: The Sweetest Thing

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Friday, 7 December 2012

Congratulations Vanessa!

Wonderful news and huge congratulations to 7-ONer Vanessa Bates, whose play Porn.Cake was joint winner of the Nick Enright Prize at the 2012 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

A play by another 7-ONer, Verity Laughton, The Sweetest Thing, was short-listed for the Award. Interesting to note that of the 6 short-listed plays, 5 were by female writers ...

Vanessa's win is exciting not only because Porn.Cake is a fabulous play, but also because it's a comedy. A fellow playwright once observed that comedies, although popular with audiences, rarely win prizes. We think there's something in that, so we're delighted on that front too.

Go Vanessa! Go Verity! Go 7-ON!

Tuesday, 9 November 2010

Reviews These Days ...

From Verity...

It can be hard in these days of gradually vanishing newspaper coverage of the arts to nail enough reviews to give the punter a notion of what's on where and an idea of a number of people's take on a play.

'The Sweetest Thing' - currently playing at Belvoir Downstairs (until Sunday, November 21st) has only caught one review in a major newspaper - being bumped consistently for coverage of the STC's production of Sam Shepard's 'True West'. Which is fine, of course. I'll give a nod to relativities here!

The good thing is the on-line community has more space to discuss a work and access to a greater range of informed subjective responses to new work so...here are three more reviews to round out the picture..

ABC Online from Jenny Blain: http://www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s3059913.htm

Time Out from Pristine Ong:

http://www.timeoutsydney.com.au/theatre/event/19519/the-sweetest-thing.aspx

Alternate Media Group from Toby Boon:

http://www.altmedia.net.au/theatre-the-sweetest-thing-2/26983

Monday, 25 October 2010

The Sweetest Thing

Verity's play The Sweetest Thing is coming to Belvoir ...

To see the trailer, point your mouse at the image, right click, select 'Show All' from the dropdown menu, and away you go ...

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).