KDC are gearing up to follow the success of our What the Dickens new writing project from 2012 with a NEW challenge in 2014. For this year’s Halloween season, our new writing challenge is to take a comfortably familiar bedtime story, and turn it into more of a modern, slightly grim, slight gritty campfire horror urban legend. Instead of getting lost in the wood, little girls in hoods get lost on the tube. Instead of abandoned cottages in the forest, there is the only flat in the creepy estate with a light on. “Once upon a time, far far away” becomes “Tonight, just round the corner from you, on that street you don’t risk walking down too late”.
So far, we’ve authors working away on Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood. But we want more!
It won’t cost anything to submit. You don’t need to have written loads of plays before. If you want some help along the way, we can provide that. In 2013, the Dickens plays got the chance to be performed as our Halloween show. Who knows, this time next year, it might be this! And YOU have the chance to be a part of that.
How it works
1) If you’re interested contact our new writing co-ordinator, Matthew, or our Artistic Director, Andy.
2) When you contact us, you can either suggest a story you’d like to play with, or if you are open, we will give you one to play with!
3) Scripts don’t have to be long at all. We would like each one to be around the 10 – 15 minute mark. 20 minutes is ok. 25 is pushing it. 30 is the maximum really (but if you’re taking more than 30 minutes to retell Snow White, you probably have too many songs or animals doing the washing up as it is
So get in touch, and let’s huff and puff and blow this Halloween away!