Verity Bargate Award 2013
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The Verity Bargate Award is our biennial search for the distinct new voices of the theatre makers of the future. The VBA was established in memory of Soho Theatre's co-founder and celebrates its 30th year in 2013.
For the first time Soho Theatre will also be working with partner venues, Birmingham Rep, Live Theatre Newcastle and Theatre Royal Plymouth, who will be involved with the judging process and offering additional opportunities to writers and theatre-makers across the country. The shortlisted plays will have a reading at one of our partner venues directed by each venue's artistic director.
To encourage playwrights, and develop writers' skills, Soho Theatre will be running workshops across the country and at Soho, focusing on various aspects of the craft of playwriting, our full line up will be available soon.
Steve Marmion, Artistic Director of Soho Theatre said:
‘We want to hear a story we've never heard before, from a voice we weren't expecting. Something that is brave with what it is trying to say, and how it is trying to say it. Something that pushes our limits emotionally, morally or theatrically. Something that is the shout from the crowd that we have to listen to. It might just be the challenge that makes you start writing for the first time.'
