PlayDays
New writing is central to Cloud Nine's work, and we are always keen to become involved in new initiatives. The Company runs a regular series of PlayDays, where we take promising new plays, workshop them for a full day in the presence of the writers, then put them on their feet, script-in-hand for a public performance in the evening.
Despite the Arts Council's decision not to fund Cloud Nine Theatre Group in 2010, our valuable PlayDay projects, which give new writers the opportunity to see their work on its feet before an audience, look to have been saved.
Ray Spencer of the Customs House has agreed to fund the next PlayDay, which will eventually see new work staged at the Customs House early in 2011 in a rehearsed reading. As a lead in to this, Kitty Fitzgerald will be running a playwriting workshop at the Customs House on Sunday 26th September.
Interested writers, who need to have a full-length play in progress, are asked to contact Peter Mortimer at Cloud Nine.
Ten writers will attend a day long workshop, then be given time to complete their scripts. One or more will finally be chosen to be put on its feet at the PlayDay itself.
Thanks Ray, for your valued support at this time!
Our most recent PlayDays project culminated on February 7th 2010, at Bishop Auckland Town Hall: for this PlayDay we presented two brand new 30 minute plays from Northern writers, both directed by Jackie Fielding:
- KISS ME QUICK
by Mark Robberts - A comedy set on a holiday beach. Ruth is spitting feathers after a row with her boyfriend. On the beach she meets the older woman Georgina, a meeting which throws up some unlikely results.
Mark Robberts is a writer from Trimdon. - FELL
by Sean Burn - Almost 3,000 feet up on a windy Northern peak, Dee and Mol look back at the turbulent events that have led them to this time and place.
An unusual experimental play from a poet and playwright who lives in Byker, Newcastle.
Other writers interested in submitting short - 30 minute - scripts should contact our artistic director, Peter Mortimer, on cloudninetheatre@blueyonder.co.uk who would also be pleased to have your comments and ideas.