Here’s a quick link to an interesting post at Mr. Excitement News on script submission guidelines for smaller theatre companies. Check it out here.
Further questions:
Do most small theatre companies have firm script submission guidelines? What works? What doesn’t? Any tips?
UPDATE:
More further questions:
What works for playwrights? How do you prefer to send your scripts (email or hard copy via snail mail)? Do playwrights prefer sending PDFs or Word documents? What is the minimum response you expect from the theatre company? Other than having the company produce a full production of your script, are there any secondary benefits a playwright can hope for when submitting a script (workshop, reading, feedback, etc.)?
George Hunka over at Superfluities started this great project back in March ’07 . . . and finished it a couple of days ago.
A sampling:
20. In taking into the theatre the languages of mass culture, of advertising and marketing, we prove we have fallen in love with our screens.
30. The language of the stage must lose its stammer.
69. The typical member of the community does not throw the first stone; but he eventually reveals his ego, if not his self; he throws the fifth or sixth, then gleefully jumps around, telling everyone that he was the first.
Click here to read all of Hunka’s 95 sentences about theatre. (Thank you to Isaac Butler and Matt Freeman for the head’s up.)
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Click here for more info on this Fringe Festival show.
Click here for more info on this Toronto Fringe Festival show.
Click here for more info on the Fringe Festival show.
Click here for more info on this Fringe Festival show.
From left to right, the cast of Dyad:
Laura Nordin, Glen McDonald, David Tompa, Margaret Evans.
dyadTwo acts of violence
directed by Michael Wheeler
55 Min.
Wed, July 4 @ 10:30 pm
Sat, July 7 @ 7:30 pm
Sun, July 8 @ Noon
Tue, July 10 @ 9:00 pm
Thu, July 12 @ 11:00 pm
Fri, July 13 @ 2:15 pm
Sat, July 14 @ 5:15 pm
Tickets:
Adults: $10 At The Door
$10 Advance ($8 + $2 SC)
Passes: $6.50 – $8.00
A Trouve North production
Produced by Margaret Evans, Philip Graeme
and Michael Wheeler Stage manager Meredith Scott
Lighting design Nicolas A. Greenland
Marketing Ian Mackenzie, Poster design James Morrow
Click here for more.
Sounds impossible – and slightly suspect – we know. But here’s what we’re thinking: Send us a digital version of your 2007 Toronto Fringe Festival postcard or poster, and we’ll post it here on our blog. Simple.
We get to learn more about your show, look at your awesome postcard, and everyone wins.
Please send your Fringe Festival postcards here. (Hi-resolution versions are preferable, but we’ll gladly take whatever you’ve got handy.)
Thanks a lot. We love you dearly.
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