WRITERS WANTED

We are now accepting applications by young writers to take part in the Theatre in the Rough Festival 2012.

This year’s festival commemorates Liverpool’s links with the Titanic. We want to reclaim the voices from the savage sea, and tell an old story in a fresh way.

We are producing 10 short monologues for live performance, and 10 3-minute audio plays as part of a wider Titanic installation.

Writers will work with experts from Merseyside Maritime Museum to research the subject, and then attend a six-week workshop programme with professional theatre practitioners from the Theatre in the Rough Festival to develop their play.

We’ll be looking at how to ‘write the past’ to make history both contemporary and personal, and also at a variety of monologue forms, from Alan Bennett to Steven Berkoff to Samuel Beckett.

We’ll also be looking at audio drama, from Radio 4′s Afternoon Play to more radical sound experiments such as by Hofesh Shechter.

And, as well as being performed and recorded, writers’ plays will also be published in an anthology.

To apply, please go to www.theatreintherough.com/writers.htm. Writers should be aged between 13-25 and live in the Greater Merseyside region.