Things are hotting up for the launch of the timetable for Studio Salford Development Week 8. It's always exciting to have a ganders over the timetable before it's officially launched - we've got great new work from at least 24 new and established writers all crammed into one week!
We've got work from the WriteForTheStage course members from the last term - from Phil Charles, Michael Campbell, Frank Hill, Catherine Lord, Alison Burrows, Michael Rumney, Jude Wells, Greg Nowell, Karen Little, Malachi O'Neil, Joan Beresford, Jane Tonge and Leni Murphy. In addition, we're also hosting new pieces of work from WFTS Alumni (and published playwrights through WFTS Books) - Sarah Cassidy, Richard "RP" Douglas, Naomi Sumner and Will Travis.
We're also hosting rehearsed readings from a great array of both emerging and established local writers. We have work from LetsMakeTheatre and Adam Whittaker, Jayne Marshall, Anne Fortune and Leigh Hayes, with a couple of others I'm hoping to get confirmed before I launch the timetable officially at 6pm this evening.
Also, established playwright, Manchester Theatre Award winning Ian Winterton, has taken the bull by the horns and has accepted the Development Week Challenge to write a 60minute play especially to be launched at Development Week. Past Challenger, Laura Lindsay, took the play-what-she-wrote for the challenge, further developed it after the first reading and it went on to receive Arts Council support and a full run at Harrogate Theatre.
And as if that's all not enough, we're bringing back our ever-popular eclectic cabaret of all things new, Embryo, to close off a great celebratory week of new writing and performance. Click here and go to the Embryo tab for more info.
So, whilst I dot the i's and cross the t's, look out later on this evening for the official timetable for Studio Salford Development Week 8. (Oh, and the more astute of you may have noticed that I'd previously mentioned that it was Development Week 7. That was in February - I'd lost count. We're definitely at DevWk8).
