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Thought this cash award might be of Interest...
The School of Media & Performance at University College Falmouth is pleased to announce the opening of this year's Nick Darke Award. The award will continue to celebrate the best writing for stage, screen and radio with writers having the chance of winning £6000, a £3000 increase on previous years.
This year's judges include; Jeremy Howe, Drama Commissioning Editor for Radio 4; Molly Dineen, a BAFTA and Royal Television Societyaward-winning UK television documentary director, cinematographer and producer; Roger Michell, the theatre, television and film director who directed Notting Hill and Sebastian Born, the Associate Director (Literary) of the National Theatre London.
In the first instance submissions are invited for an outline and 20 sample script pages of work that will be considered by a selection of readers. The eight shortlisted writers will then be judged by a panel before the winner is announced in October 2012.
Writers are asked to submit work on an environmental theme in recognition of Nick's lifelong commitment to this issue. The word environmental may however be broadly interpreted.
Full submission information available to download at http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/nickdarkeaward
re competitive rhyming. Welsh ministers, sons of the soil, many of whom were from west Wales, go to America - black slaves go to church and are taught to sing hymns and spirituals by said ministers - black slaves adopt the minister's surnames (no it wasn't Welsh slave traders) - hymns and spirituals mixed with the west African Griot tradition along with work songs in the Mississippi delta - emancipation - the blues - jazz poetry - beat poetry - Gil Scott Heron.... I think you know where I'm going with this.
Thanks John. If anyone wants to follow the Q&A tonight on twitter, we're going to live tweet it. Follow #a160qa from about 9.30pm.
Good luck for tonight Lisa
Sam - it sounds like it was a good collaboration. Do send me some more of your work to read at some point if you'd like
Ah, that's down to Nicola, not me - it was written quite generically (actually more with a Cardiff accent in mind at first), and what didn't work in a Glasgow accent was tweaked by her.
Hi John - thanks for your kind words. Really pleased with how it went! Just tech-ing the next six for 7.30 tonight before taking the show to London, then Glasgow. I thought it was really fascinating how the audience responded to the different pieces. A few Scottish people were in and laughing more at the Scots ones etc! Showed we had a good cultural mix and that it's fab to expose different audiences across the UK to different work I think. Probably was the accent a bit, combined with it being the first one and people not sure what to expect. Will report back on different reactions to the plays from across the UK! Lisa.
Well you've got a great ear for a bit of Scottish dialect!
No, no - I've lived most of my life in Cardiff (though did go to Swansea uni), but have been staying in Scotland for the past few months. The piece was cast and rehearsed in Edinburgh.
Sadly won't catch the pieces tonight Sam, let me know how they are. Are you from Glasgow then? I had you down as a Swansea writer.
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