Deadline:
April 18, 2020
UJ Arts & Culture invites aspirant and
established playwrights to apply for participation in its online playwriting
laboratory.
A division of the Faculty of Art, Design
and Architecture (FADA) at the University of Johannesburg, UJ Arts & Culture
is a proponent of new original South African work and the UJ Playwriting Lab is
another programme designed to support the development of new creative content.
Over the past few years, numerous new works
were developed in collaboration, in partnership or in residence at UJ Arts
& Culture. Among these, iNDUKU, Dear
Mr Government, please may I have a meeting with you, even though I am six years
old? and Pink Money to mention a
few.
The aim of this six-month programme is for
participants to complete the script for a 60-90 minute one-act play. UJ Arts
& Culture will select up to four works for staged readings in 2021, where
some of the works might be selected for a full-scale production.
“Most of the playwrights I know don’t
follow a step-by-step process or ‘recipe’ to write a play. Most of the time it
involves a smorgasbord of methods, techniques and tricks. The UJ Playwriting
Lab strives to create a learning-by-doing environment through online master
classes, forum discussions and ongoing critical feedback over a
writing-intensive period,” says Pieter Jacobs, Head of UJ Arts & Culture.
“While writing, generally, is a solitary endeavour we hope that this programme
will make the journey a little less lonely,” he adds.
The UJ Playwriting Lab is open to new,
emerging and established South African writers. The programme will be presented
in English but participants may also write scripts in Setswana, South and North
Sotho (Sesotho and Sepedi) and Afrikaans.
The programme will be facilitated by Pieter
Jacobs and playwright Omphile Molusi and award-winning director, Jade Bowers an
independent director and facilitator Tshego Khutsoane will join the programme
as writing advisors. Master classes on a range of topics will be presented by
writing advisors and other writers including Mike van Graan, Napo Masheane,
Ismail Mahomed and Amy Jephta.
Applicants are required to submit one
monologue (no more than 400 words) and a dialogue (no more than 600 words). The
following online form should be completed and submitted by no later than April 18,
2020:
Apply HERE --- >
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=zVp4-u82vEGKlImEEyfgRQuF40uqk1lJkxReUrtSbtxUQUFWNFhGS0s5UkI2VEFVOFZOS0xNMkRLNi4u
To ensure that participants gain meaningful
value from the process and that scripts developed are as close to ready for
production as possible, a limited number of participants will be selected.
For more information, visit
www.uj.ac.za/arts
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