Highlighting the importance of playwriting in all its
manifestations around the world, ASSITEJ will honour three persons as “ASSITEJ
Inspirational Playwrights” every three years at its World Congress, starting in
Cape Town in May 2017. This will be administered and adjudicated by the Write
Local Play Global network in coordination with the ASSITEJ Executive committee.
“The essence of our work is telling stories on our stages,
and this award is created to honour particular writers who have inspired
theatre for young audiences in their city, their country, their region, or all
over the world,” say the organisers.
How they have been inspirational could be very particular
and individual, including:
Writing a play or plays innovative in content and/or form
that help transform TYA in their country
Serving as a mentor and role model to other writers
Writing politically or socially aware work that challenges
entrenched tradition or power in their country or region
Through their writing, encouraging audiences to see other
people, the world and its events in a more profound and human way.
– it will be the individual nominator who will ‘tell the
story’ of how the playwright they nominate has been inspirational
Honouring three inspirational playwrights at each Congress
allows ASSITEJ to celebrate its broad membership of different genders, ages,
backgrounds, cultures, regions and languages. ASSITEJ members come from small
and large countries, work for and with different ages of young audiences, and
create theatre by a multitude of varied processes. The ASSITEJ Inspirational
Playwrights will reflect not only the diversity in form and subject matter of
playwriting around the world, but also its global membership of talented
playwrights and theatre makers.
In addition to the ceremony/reception at which the
inspirational playwrights are named, the organizers of the Congress will be
invited to work with the EC, WLPG and the selected playwrights to showcase
their work in a creative manner, such as performances, translations, readings,
etc.
Application information and further details are available on
the Write Local Play Global website – see http://writelocalplayglobal.org/wlpg-home/2016/8/1/new-award-to-honor-assitej-inspirational-playwrights.html
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