'Albatross' by Martha Loader - on tour in 2026. A woman dressed in active outdoor wear places a large box on the floor of her mother's kitchen.
Delighted to announce our production and tour of 'Albatross' by award-winning writer @marthaloader.bsky.social. A play about love in the age of climate catastrophe, about deep family ties, about dreams deferred and surprise gifts. Full tour details: www.menagerie.uk.com
Thanks Ben x
Playwright Martha Loader has been named winner of the 2025 George Devine Award, giving her £15,000 to support the writing of her next play.
Read more 👉 www.thestage.co.uk/news/mar...
The George Devine Award for new writing has unveiled its 2025 shortlist, with four writers in contention for the prize.
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Fantastic news, @marthaloader.bsky.social The Town is such a brilliant play (and best wishes to the everyone else on the shortlist too).
Thank you thank you!
Four shortlisted plays have been announced for this year's #GeorgeDevineAward 2025 for new writing
🔗 www.westendtheatre.com/323871/news/...
Bad Seed by #AsmaraGabrielle; Citizens of Umi by #YasminJoseph; The Town by #MarthaLoader; and The Knot by #IslavanTricht
#WestEndTheatre #LondonTheatre
🎬 The arts aren’t a luxury - they’re an export.
At #Lab25, @aiannucci.bsky.social reminds us that the UK’s Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy and 7% of our workforce - the GDP equivalent of oil + car industries combined.
🎥 Watch more clips from the Creative UK Pavilion hubs.ly/Q03QVhV90
Theatre organisations from across East Anglia have joined together to create a network aimed at tackling the challenges of mid-scale touring.
👉 www.thestage.co.uk/news/the...
Eastern Angles Need Your Local Stories For Their Latest Project
Eastern Angles are reaching out to people in Ipswich to help their latest creative project, Oh! What a Wonderful Westgate. The project will be a collection of audio stories, poems and songs that will recount the history of the…
‘Being Black and British: Before During and After Drama School’ is released on September 22 but is available to pre-order from TODAY.
Pre-order now - directly from the publisher on the link, your favourite bookshop, or your institutional or local library.
Launch event(s) to be shared…
📣 3 days left! 😱
Apply for the 503Five now: buff.ly/tcdzSCl ✨
📸 Rotterdam, Piers Foley Photography
@mercurytheatre.bsky.social Script Submissions are now open. Email the first 30 pages to script.submissions@mercurytheatre.co.uk by Sun 31 Aug.
#playwrights #scriptwriters #theatresky please share.
www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/taking-part/...
And really fun to find a giant Laura Hanna in the RX too!
Such a brilliant night on Monday at #BruntwoodPrizeforPlaywriting celebrating this incredible shortlist of writers. Huge congratulations to the winners and whole shortlist. I can’t wait to see your plays on our stages soon!
Our next Mercury Original has been written by Suffolk-based writer Tassa Deparis. A recent graduate of the Mercury Theatre Writers Programme in association with Paines Plough, Tassa is currently under commission to New Wolsey Theatre and HighTide where she is Associate Artist. buff.ly/OZ17ur5
📣 Calling all East of England Playwrights 📣
Meet our Artistic Director!
Join Titilola Dawudu at one of our upcoming Playwrights' East sessions for a creative workshop and Q&A.
Tue 22 July, 6.30pm - 8.30pm at Eastern Angles
or
Wed 23 July, 6.30pm - 8.30pm online
tinyurl.com/yx3u9te2
It’s SO good!
So delighted to get my amazing friend #EmmaSwan’s first book through the post from @waterstones.bsky.social. #CruiseShipKid is going to be huge! Great characters, unique setting, and a mystery to solve onboard. Fun for all the family #Booksky
Almeida Theatre appoints Dominic Cooke as new Artistic Director
Read more: www.westendtheatre.com/295466/news/...
Dominic Cooke (Mrs Warren’s Profession; Hello, Dolly!; Follies) succeeds Rupert Goold (Dear England; Patriots) the Almeida Theatre
#AlmeidaTheatre #DominicCooke #RupertGoold
Such a great night watching #Weer from the incredible Natalie Palamides tonight at the new, very shiny Soho Theatre Walthamstow. What a way to kick off their programme. As a romcom fiend, this was pure joy 🤩
Brilliant night at #NoisesOff at #NewWolseyTheatre last night. Super slickly directed by the fabulous @dougrintoul.bsky.social. Highly choreographed mayhem. What a joy! Get your tickets now…
www.wolseytheatre.co.uk/events/noise...
Really looking forward to this tonight!
Looking forward to seeing Weer here next week!
Such a dream to be repped by the brilliant Mark and Lily at Curtis Brown. I feel very lucky to get to work with them both ✏️
www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/marth...
Looking forward to this!
Off to #INKFestival25 today to run this workshop (and generally be part of the festival festivities!) Only 2 tickets left, so come along 1-2:30 at Halesworth Library 🖊️
www.inkfestival.org/events/how-t...
Looking forward to #INKFestival 24-27 April. I’m running a workshop on Saturday 26th - ‘How to get your play noticed’. It’ll be fun and practical so hope to see people there! www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/hal...
The Women's Prize for Playwriting, Submissions must close Tues 22 April, 5pm
📣 Applications closing soon!
Supporting exceptional female and non-binary playwrights, the winning play will receive £20,000 and the option for us to co-produce the play with @ekpshows.bsky.social and @painesplough.bsky.social
Submissions close on Tue 22 April 👉 womensprizeforplaywriting.co.uk
