Themes
If you are participating in the festival, please email me a theme idea.
Friday Night, 6pm [BST]
Each
participant will need to be on the Zoom call on Friday night at 6pm to facilitate
communications. Please do not leave the Zoom call until you have made contact with your production team and confirmed Saturday morning's rehearsal.
I will get Zoom details for that meeting to everyone soon.
I will get Zoom details for that meeting to everyone soon.
Actors / Directors / Playwrights
I will
not post any contributors’ CV.
Production teams will be put together on Friday evening. Once everyone has confirmed their interest, I
will assume permission has been granted to share your email address with the
entire team so that the director can contact the production team once it has
been assembled on Friday.
It will
be up to the director to arrange a Zoom call on Saturday morning to begin
rehearsal.
By 10am, I will need from the director confirmation of the name
of the play and the creative team for the programme.
The director
and playwright can discuss how they want to work together. Some might not need the playwright present
during a first reading and others might want them there for re-writes and
clarifications. It will be up to the
director & playwright to manage that relationship.
Directors - please make sure that you are familiar with Zoom [and its 40 minute time limit for rehearsal] and how best to utilize it in performance & rehearsal.
Play
Submissions
Plays
will need to be submitted to myself & the director of the piece by 9am
[BST] on Saturday morning. It is assumed that the director, the playwright
and actors have discussed processes on Friday night to make the rehearsal smooth.
Length of Play
As the plays will be fully off book for the performance,
they should not be longer than 10 minutes / 5 pages in length. As there are to be 8 plays in total, please keep to the limit and feel free to write something under the maximum.
Play Structure
Actors will be randomly
drawn for each production according to the following structure:
· -
Monologues x 2
·
- Duologues x 4
·
- Triads x 2
This will allow for the greatest variety within the
structure of 16 actors.
Programme
I will be producing a simple programme for the evening of
the 18th performance. I do
not need any bios or headshots for it as I will just be listing the play names
& the names of the contributors.
Tech on Saturday Night
There
will be a 5pm call for a technical rehearsal for every team. This will allow us to figure out best practice
on Zoom and how to get in and out of pieces.
Performance
on Saturday Night
The performance
will begin at 7pm [BST] on Saturday 18 July.
Please invite audiences through the private Zoom contact details which I included in the second email. Please
do not post these details publicly. I have
set up a ‘Just Giving’ page for people to pay what they wish for the
performance which will be profit shared amongst all contributors.
Everyone
will have a running order and I will introduce each piece, so it will be up to each
team to turn microphones / cameras on in due time to be ready to begin.
I
will welcome everyone to the event at 7pm and will introduce the first piece;
once that piece is finished, I will introduce the second piece and so on. This should give performers enough time to be
ready.
Everyone
else will have their camera and microphones off so that the play will run on
Zoom with no distractions.
Once I have more details about the plays, I will determine a running order and post that to you mid-afternoon on Saturday.
Once I have more details about the plays, I will determine a running order and post that to you mid-afternoon on Saturday.
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All
of this above is subject to change and to be added to as and when questions
arise, so please come back to the FAQ frequently.
