After working collectively efficiently on The Devil Drinks Cava by JD Stewart earlier this 12 months, PPP is delighted to work with SQA to carry a brand new queer play to life in 2024.
This thrilling fee is about discovering and nurturing new queer expertise in Scotland, so it’s open to anybody who identifies as LGBTQIA+ and has by no means had a play commissioned by PPP.
As properly as receiving charges, the profitable applicant could have mentorship from an skilled artist who will present profession assist and dramaturgical enter to help the author in producing a primary draft of the play.
After a improvement course of in March 2024, the brand new play will likely be professionally produced and introduced at Òran Mór in Glasgow as a part of PPP’s twentieth anniversary celebrations with the potential to be toured throughout different venues in Scotland.
Drew Taylor-Wilson, Sanctuary Queer Arts Co-Director:
“Sanctuary Queer Arts is tremendous excited to be partnering with PPP – this 12 months’s PPP programming introduced a bunch of queer expertise to the levels, within the inventive groups and within the content material on the stage. It provides us a lot pleasure to be working with a collaborator that really is working to seize up to date life by way of theatre and foreground underrepresented voices. We can’t wait to assist carry new LGBTQIA+ content material and creatives to the programme as we companion for this mission.“
Jemima Levick, Artistic Director at PPP, added: “I am delighted we are collaborating again with the wonderful folk at Sanctuary Queer Arts on this new commission. PPP has a strong reputation for professionally producing the work of fresh new talent and we are passionate about creating opportunities for more queer stories to be told on stage.”
Applications are open now and can shut on Friday twenty second October 2023. For full particulars on learn how to apply, please go to: www.sanctuaryqueerarts.com/pppwriter
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