Closing date: 23rd February 2014
Attention! Attention! This is your Artistic Director speaking (typing)
In Summer 2014 we’ll be performing at the Rosemary Branch in Islington from 17-28 June. We intend to embrace the season with some sunshine and light-heartedness, by giving some new writing the opportunity to get staged, AS WELL as a slot in which we would like to revisit a classic.
For our new writing week, our New Writing Coordinator, Matthew Partridge has been taking care of all our inbound scripts in our new writing bank. The plays come from friends and members of KDC Theatre. They have been read at our Round Table Readings (such as the ones we will have this season), and this slot gives directors the opportunity to get these new scripts on their feet, potentially even working with the writers. The New Writing arm of KDC Theatre is something that has been up and running for close to 10 years now, and is something that we really love to put our support behind.
A synopsis of the plays will be available on request to anyone interested in learning more, and following that, we will be able to email you any scripts you have an interest in.
For our second week, we would like to put on a classic. Something over 100 years old. Something familiar that you as a director, and KDC Theatre as a company, can put your own personal stamp on. In the past year alone, we have had a female Hamlet and Richard III, an all female production of Electra, and relocated a Wilde play to contemporary Russia. We would love to hear your pitches for the classic plays that you love, as well as what you want to do with them (whether it’s something very different or a classic interpretation).
Don’t feel that you have to stop at Shakespeare, Wilde or the Greeks through! There are so many more writers to choose from. Just remember that we are aiming to keep our season light-hearted! (Titus Andronicus will have to wait for another day)
If you would like to pitch, or write to us to tell us you have an intention to pitch, please email me at artistic@kdctheatre.com
Our pitching process will close on 23 February 2014, so please contact us by, or before, that date.