Author Archives: 17percent

About 17percent

A campaign to get more plays by women playwrights onto UK stages.

The most inspirational women are closer to home than you might think…

A speech about inspirational women, given at International Women’s Day 2013. Continue reading

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Progressive dramaturgy; a guest discussion

“the minute you walk into a play and say ‘I know what you should be and if you don’t do that you’re not a play’ then you’re missing the play that’s doing something progressive.” David Lane
What does a play look like? What about the writer whose play doesn’t look like a play? A discussion which gives the director/literary manager a way into working with the text and the writer, and the writer a way to vocalise what they might have had trouble describing. Continue reading

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Not lost in translation

Sam Hall’s play on as part of TREND festival in Italy. Continue reading

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The Park Theatre – opening soon!

A new theatre in Finsbury Park Continue reading

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Hours til Midnight – a play by Sonya Hale

A new play by Clean Break graduate Sonya Hale. Continue reading

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An Act of Twisting at The Rondo

A new play at The Rondo, we talk to Hannah Drake, its director, and Ian McGlynn, its writer. Continue reading

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Meet the Hens and Chicks at Short Cuts 3

Short Cuts 3 moves to The Hen and Chickens. Continue reading

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Scribbler Girl – a new play by Shiona Morton

A new play by Shiona Morton tours the north-east. Continue reading

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There is no I in collaborate

There is no I in collaborate – an OpenSpace forum from Butterfly Psyche Theatre Company. Continue reading

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You have till 17 Feb to send a short script…

Writing opportunity in Reading. Continue reading

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