Welcome!
Player-Playwrights is an association of writers and actors who meet on Monday evenings for professional readings of new work before an informed audience.
The purpose of the meeting is to allow the writer to see and hear the work in performance and to have it evaluated and discussed, with a view to getting it before the public, whether by production, publication or sale. And it is fun too.
We meet in the room upstairs at the Horse and Groom in Great Portland Street W1, midway between Great Portland Street underground at the top and Oxford Circus at the bottom. The room has a bar (and bar staff!) and comfy sofas, chairs and stools. There is a performing area (with appropriate lighting) at one end. Smoking is not allowed on the premises, but there are a few tables and chairs on the pavement outside, to which members may resort before, after and in the short break between the reading and the discussion.
The Horse and Groom is well within the congestion charge zone but after 6.30pm parking is easy. Our room is open to members (and guests) from 7pm and the readings start at 7.45. The meeting usually ends by 9.45 but a full length play, or double bill, can take us up to 10.30. There are opportunities for socialising and networking until the bar closes at 11.
It is a members’ club, with about 150 members and it costs £10 to join. The annual subscription, due on 1 January after joining, is £6; there is also an attendance fee of £2 a night which is pretty good value for a theatrical evening in the West End!
If you would like to know more please contact our Publicity Officer, Peter Thompson, on publicity@playerplaywrights.co.uk [020 8883 0371].
Better still, just drop in at the Horse and Groom any Monday evening (with your £2 ready to pay the Treasurer) and spend the evening with us. We don’t want you to join unless you are sure it’s for you.