Play Club

Play Club, our online book club for plays is back for 2022! Read plays, discuss them with the group and write a ten minute play in response to the text!

Play Club, our online book club with a twist! As with last year’s Play Club, we’ll be featuring new writing from 3 incredible writers selected from our 2021 submission window.

How it works: For each round of Play Club we’ll be sending out a play for you to read and we’ll all meet up to chat about it online. You’ll have the opportunity to meet the writer and get to know the ideas behind the story before we challenge you to write a short 10-page play in response, inspired by what you’ve read. You’ll then be invited to submit your short plays to us and selected plays will be read by actors online and broadcast as part of a digital Play Club event!

How to take part: Sign up to the Play Club Mailing list here. We’ll send all information, scripts, details of the discussion session, and submission windows to you by email via this mailing list so don’t forget to sign up!

When does it start? The third round of Play Club 2022 is now live!

What, and whose, play will we be talking about it Play Club 3?

Drum roll please….

Sakuntala by Andrew Day

What happens when the cracks in society run through your life – through your workplace, your marriage, and your heart? This is the story of one woman discovering that those cracks have crept into the foundations of the life she has built. You can make all the choices you like about who you want to be, but sometimes what determines your fate is what other people see

Dates: we’ll be meeting on Zoom to discuss the play on Thursday 24th November at 12pm – 1pm. The submission window for short plays written in response opens on 24th November and closes on 9th December.