Plays early please — director

Press, 29 January 1986, Page 19

Plays early please — director

Playmarket wants writers to submit playscripts for the 1986 New Zealand Playwrights Workshop as soon as possible.

In past years 80 to 100 scripts have been submitted for the national workshop and they have come in a few days before deadline.

"Dealing with that number of scripts all at once is really hard work,” said the Playmarket director, Miss Nonnita Rees. “This year the scripts are being assessed both by a reading panel and a selection committee, which will take quite some time.”

The fourth New Zea-

land Playwrights Workshop is being held at Lincoln College, Canterbury, from August 31 to September 7, but the deadline for scripts is March 1.

The biennial workshop is organised by Playmarket, the New Zealand Playwrights Agency and script assessment service.

The workshop brings together writers, directors, actors, dramaturgs, and people interested in the development of professional theatre. The 1986 workshop will be the first fully residential workshop and the first held in the Southisland.