At the heart of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting is the principal that anyone and everyone can enter the Prize β it is entirely anonymous and scripts are judged purely on the basis of the work alone and with no knowledge of the identity of the playwright. Each winner enters into a development process with the Royal Exchange Theatre in an endeavour to bring their work to production.
It is not guaranteed but we aspire to produce each play and find co-producers to give the plays a longer life and further reach. Curry and a pint for a fiver. Go at five thirty, home by ten. Beat my mum up for a while. I have always had this feeling. And yes, stuff makes me happy and stuff makes me sad like everybody else butβ¦. Georgia Bruce is a writer and actor from London. Time, Like the Sea is their first play, which explores lesbianism and queerness through different generations. Olivier-Award nominated actor David Dawson plays a leading role in Michael Grandage directed My Policeman, opposite Harry Styles and Emma Corrin β due for release in early β following a varied career on television.
His latest play The China Play focuses on an Asian-American interpreter who finds herself unexpectedly thrust into a summit meeting between two Presidents, where nuances of language collide with diplomatic tension. Paddy Hughes is a playwright, dramaturg and script reader based in Liverpool, who seeks to support and develop new writers in the North-West of England. Leave the Morning to the Morning is a story of heartbreak, speaking the truth and the right to live and die on your own terms.
Bindweed follows the facilitator of a perpetrator programme for domestic abusers, whose life outside of work begins to buckle. Allah in the Walls follows Fairuza, who, with her family, takes in an old childhood friend for the duration of Ramadan.
Everything is not as it seems, however, and Hannah finds herself trying to keep her past hidden in the midst of the dysfunctional family. Prior to her writing career she was a practising barrister, the first in her family to attend university. Three follows Carol on her wedding anniversary, looking back with fierce jealousy to the younger woman her husband once loved β her younger self.
