Submissions Now Accepted! |
Due to funding restrictions under the current economic circumstances, Solo Collective Theatre will regretfully be unable to run its annual Emerging Playwrights' Competition in 2010. Despite the learning and development provided by this program, funding losses have made it an impossibility.
However, there is good news! Solo Collective is happy to announce it's accepting submissions for its annual Public Staged Reading! The play will be dramaturged by Solo Collective's Dramaturge Intern, Nicole Gordon, under the guidance of co-Artistic Directors Aaron Bushkowsky and Rachel Peake. The playwright will receive an honourarium and the piece will be workshopped with professional actors and presented in a public reading.
Submissions should be full-length plays with any size cast. Development and dramaturgy are part of the process, but plays should be complete drafts in order to be considered. Writers at any stage of their career are encouraged to submit material.
Plays should be sent in pdf form to: info@solocollective.ca with the subject line
"2010 Staged Reading Submission"
Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2010
Support Solo Collective
Now more than ever, arts groups could use your help. Solo Collective accepts donations via our website at www.solocollective.ca/support.htm
mail: Solo Collective Theatre Society #1108-1202 Harwood St Vancouver, BC V6E 1S3
(All donors will be issued a charitable receipt.)
Speak out
Are you disappointed at losing the 2010 Emerging Playwrights Program? Are you frustrated at the way the cuts to the arts are effecting you personally? Then speak out!
Visit the Alliance for Arts and Culture website for more information on how to make your voice heard at:
www.allianceforarts.com
Or send us an email and we'd be happy to pass your views on to our elected representatives.
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Solo Collective proudly presented:
THE PROJECT
November 4 -15, 2009
Performance Works, Granville Island
What happens when Hollywood takes on starvation in Africa? A dark comedy on how not to make a documentary. The world premiere of The Project a dark comedy by award-winning playwright Aaron Bushkowsky, directed by Rachel Peake and featuring Andrew McNee, Sarah Rodgers, Alvin Sanders, Maiko Bae Yamamoto, and Lindsey Angell.
Amidst four egotistical filmmakers making a difference, a revolutionary African military takeover, and big-business Christian fundamentalism, this darkly hilarious story leaves us asking: Where are our stories coming from? Who is actually pulling the strings? And what is left to believe?
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Reviews are in:
There are lots of funny lines here.... Bushkowsky is a witty writer.... Andrew McNee's Fred is fantastically mercurial. Sarah Rodgers, who plays Sophie, gets on a roll in the second half, when the unstable star unleashes the floodgates of self-indulgence. And Maiko Bae Yamamoto is compellingly still--almost glowing--as Yuki. With its rhythmic energy and precision, Jamie Nesbitt's projection design is gorgeous, and Yvan Morissette's set is sleekly upscale. The Georgia Straight
This is the kind of play we need these days, i.e., dark comedies, because of the situation all of us are in these days. And this play, contentwise, was excellent. Rachel Peake did an excellent job directing this bunch of talented actors. They were funny in a serious way, especially Alvin Sanders (George) and Maiko Bae Yamamoto (Yuki) who articulated very well. Lindsey Angell (Leah) as an up-and-coming producer was entertaining.... ReviewVancouver
The Project sounds more like a messy bathroom reno than a comedy about an ill-advised documentary shot in Africa. But -- unlike most the projects I've embarked on--this Project is clever and funny. Unexpectedly, it made me reflective after the curtain fell. The Courier
As a regular theatre goer in Vancouver, it was a thrill to watch actors delivering a literate, intelligent script by someone who knows how to write. The various aspects of The Project, from staging to performance, fit together seamlessly. A pleasure to watch. Plank Magazine
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