Come on, budding writers! I know many of you write bespoke plays for your own students because you can’t find plays with the right numbers of characters or, just as importantly, with all the candidates having enough to say to be examinable. Time to dig those out from your dusty filing cabinet and send them to me.
We need plenty more – especially plays for single-sex casts, short and full-length.
We’re looking for short plays of around 15-20 minutes duration, with either all female, or predominantly female characters with a view to publication and distribution. Plays of a similar length for an all-male cast are also welcome. Also for new plays and musicals of any length, suitable for school use.
if you have any plays that you have written, please send them to me: jeni@dramaworks.co.uk either as an email attachment or as hard copy: Jeni Whittaker, 2 College Wood, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 8NB.
If they will work for this site, I’ll put them into the same format as the others and they’ll join the rest.
Payment Sharing
The plays have always been a sharing scheme. All the writers receive a quarter of the sales of their own plays. Some who have written a lot make quite a nice little sum. I pay the writers at the end of every school year and though you won’t make a fortune you will have the satisfaction of knowing that other people are using and benefitting from YOUR play.