Writers wanted for our 9th annual Full Stack new writing competition, our yearly invite to writers experienced and new to get out their keyboards and start a-tapping! We’re looking for short scripts for an anthology show to be staged in summer 2025 (likely second half of June 2025).
The brief
The theme for our Full Stack Summer 2025 show is…SOLSTICE.
Solstice
A solstice marks a moment of extreme: the longest day or the longest night. It is a turning point in the calendar year, observed across centuries and cultures as a time of ritual, reflection, and change. But beyond its astronomical roots, solstice carries powerful symbolic weight – evoking cycles of growth and decay, hope and loss, light and shadow.
We’re looking for new plays that explore transitions: between seasons, states of mind, relationships, political eras, or phases of life.
Any genre is welcome (and we’d love to see a variety of different approaches that we can combine into a balanced show).
We’d love to see plays that explore turning points, rituals, extremes, light and dark, endings and beginnings, and/or a clear sense of mood or shift – whether political, personal, environmental, emotional or spiritual.
Some ideas to spark your thinking:
- A character facing a moment they can’t come back from
- A story set over the course of one long night (or day)
- A community waiting for light to return or reckoning with its absence
- Personal transformation that mirrors seasonal change
- Time as an unseen force in the story
Constraints:
- Maximum length: 15 minutes – your play can be shorter, of course!
- Cast: 1-3 actors – more characters are possible if actors double (or triple) up.
- Staging: As this is an anthology show, we are looking for plays that can be staged with minimal set and props which could be quickly brought on and removed by the actors. Scenic projections are not possible and there should be minimal lighting and sound cues.
- Please note: This is an amateur production and not a paid opportunity. By submitting your script to us, you are giving us permission to perform the script in our Full Stack 2025 show.
How to submit:
- Deadline: Monday 21st April 2025, 18:00 UK time zone
To submit:
- Please fill out the form linked here. As part of this, you will be asked to upload your script in pdf format.
Next steps:
- We will notify all writers if their scripts have been chosen for the show or not by mid-May 2025.
- Any questions, please contact James Taverner on james@kdctheatre.com.
