ACT Theatre/Forthcoming Productions/Playwriting Competition

ACT - The College Theatre

The ACT Theatre has been designed to meet the College's own specifications and has created a flexible performance area. Capable of holding audiences of over 300, the Theatre has become the venue for a huge variety of exciting performance work. As well as a centre for the creative work inside the College, the Theatre plays host to work of outside companies.

ACT Playwriting Competition 2009

The ACT Theatre runs an annual competition to encourage young writers to create new works for live theatre and the 2009 Competition is now open.

The competition is for the best one-act plays received which are the original work of students in Years 12 /13 in full-time education at Schools and Colleges in Greater London and the South-East of England. The winning writer will receive £500 with a guaranteed performance of their work, with £250 for the second prize winner and three further prizes of £100. (Other winning plays may also be performed.)

ACT ONE-ACT PLAYWRITING COMPETITION 2008-9
The standard of entry continues to be impressive, as is the range of work submitted.
The three very different plays which are this year’s winners are:

First Prize: (£500 and a guaranteed production):
APOCALYPSE ELEGIES by Tom Vickers (Peter Symonds College, Winchester)

Second Prize: (£250)
BATHROOM SINCERITIES by Victoria Richards (Hurtwood House, near Dorking)

Third prize: (£100)
REMEMBERING MICKEY  by Darrel Draper (Havering College)

Two further plays were also HIGHLY COMMENDED:
CARRYING LARRY by Cameron Wauchope (Bancroft’s Senior School, Woodford Green)
D.I.D. by Ruth Ingamells (The Portsmouth Grammar School)

The intention is to produce all three prize-winning plays in the ACT at Kingston in the week beginning 29th March 2009. Details of production dates and times will be announced later.

The judges would like to thank all those who entered the competition, providing evidence of a good deal of writing talent in schools and colleges.

The 2009/10 competition will be formally launched in March 2010, with a closing date of September 1st 2010.