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Monday 1 April - Call It Vienna by Michael Barry
During the Second World War, our understanding of the depths to which humanity can sink was pushed down to a new and terrible abyss. Two...
Caleb Estes
Mar 30, 20191 min read
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Monday 25 March: The Boss by Charles Palliser
THE BOSS is a black farce set in real-time. It takes place over one evening in the office of a paranoid dictator during which the...
Caleb Estes
Mar 19, 20191 min read
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Monday 18 March - The Custom of the Sea by Jim Mannering
The final instalment in Jim Mannering’s trilogy of twisted thrillers. We have peaked through the floorboards into the basement of a group...
Caleb Estes
Mar 15, 20191 min read
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Monday 11 March - Comedy writing: Talk with Dave Cohen
An evening with Dave Cohen, comedian, founder member of the Comedy Store Players with Mike Myers and Paul Merton and now one of the top...
Caleb Estes
Mar 9, 20191 min read
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The Times They Are A Changin' - The winning entries
Congratulations to the winners of our first Player Playwright short play contest of 2019. The entry judged to be best the audience was...
Caleb Estes
Mar 6, 20191 min read
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Monday 4 March - Competition finale: The Times They Are A Changin'
The first Player Playwright short play contest of the year, with six great new works from our Members, all related, in some way, to the...
Caleb Estes
Mar 1, 20191 min read
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Monday 25 February - Smothered by Marc Blake
Adam’s mother has had a fall. Returning from Canada with his new bride, Adam discovers that she has lost none of her ways and wiles....
Caleb Estes
Feb 20, 20191 min read
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The Times They REALLY Are A Changin'
The deadline for entries in the upcoming Player Playwrights short play contest has been extended to 25th February, so get scribbling! The...
Caleb Estes
Feb 15, 20191 min read
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Monday 18 February - Travelers by David Conway
Travelers by David Conway Travelers is about Irish tinkers, or travelers. Molly, and her husband Johnny are quarrelling about the fate of...
Caleb Estes
Feb 13, 20191 min read
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Monday 11 February - Jericho Mills
Jericho Mills by Mary Conway Jericho Mills is a young man riding high. At only 32 he has transcended his modest family background to...
Caleb Estes
Feb 7, 20191 min read
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Deadline looming on latest Player Playwright short play contest
Time is running out to get in your entry The theme of our latest short play contest is The Times Are A-Changin' The deadline for entries...
Caleb Estes
Feb 7, 20191 min read
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Monday 4 February - Jeeves and the Song of Songs
Jeeves and the Song of Songs by Francis Beckett Bertie toddles happily along to his old friend Revd “Beefy” Bingham’s East End concert,...
Caleb Estes
Feb 2, 20191 min read
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Monday 28 January - Going Going Going
Going Going Going by Peter Thompson Radio play At a school auction a 6th former puts her grandfather’s services as a barrister up for...
Caleb Estes
Jan 26, 20191 min read
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Competition of competition winner
Congratulations to Lynne O'Sullivan whose play The Unkindness of Strangers was voted best short play of Player Playwrights 2018 season....
Caleb Estes
Jan 24, 20191 min read
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Monday 21 January - Competition of Competitions
The Competition of Competitions is the play-off of the six winners and runners-up from the three short play competitions of 2018....
Caleb Estes
Jan 18, 20191 min read
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The Powers That Be: play reading Monday, 14 January
‘The Powers That Be’ by Melville Lovatt Matt and Gary are ‘minding’ a man and awaiting instructions from the powers that be. Instructions...
Caleb Estes
Jan 2, 20191 min read
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Player Playwright awards 2018
The annual Player Playwright awards have been revealed Best Actor: Johnny Hansler; runner up Phil Philmar Best Actress: Lynne O’Sullivan...
Caleb Estes
Dec 5, 20181 min read
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Player Playwright Xmas Party - 7pm, Monday 3rd December
The annual Players Playwright Christmas Party includes buffet, canapes and a full entertainment programme of songs, skits and short...
Caleb Estes
Nov 27, 20181 min read
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Eveline And Frank Are In Buenos Aires, by Richard Woulfe - 7.30pm, 26 November
Eveline has escaped her humdrum life in Dublin to live with Frank in Buenos Aires. However, Frank is not the success she believed, and...
Caleb Estes
Nov 20, 20181 min read
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Monday 19 November, 7.30pm TALK: Playwriting by Danny Robins
An evening of insight with a talented and experienced writer from the worlds of TV, radio and stage dramas. Danny writes scripts for TV...
Caleb Estes
Nov 16, 20181 min read
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