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Deadline looming on latest Player Playwright short play contest
Time is running out to get in your entry The theme of our latest short play contest is The Times Are A-Changin' The deadline for entries...

Caleb Estes
Feb 7, 20191 min read
Monday 4 February - Jeeves and the Song of Songs
Jeeves and the Song of Songs by Francis Beckett Bertie toddles happily along to his old friend Revd “Beefy” Bingham’s East End concert,...

Caleb Estes
Feb 2, 20191 min read
Monday 28 January - Going Going Going
Going Going Going by Peter Thompson Radio play At a school auction a 6th former puts her grandfather’s services as a barrister up for...

Caleb Estes
Jan 26, 20191 min read


Competition of competition winner
Congratulations to Lynne O'Sullivan whose play The Unkindness of Strangers was voted best short play of Player Playwrights 2018 season....

Caleb Estes
Jan 24, 20191 min read
Monday 21 January - Competition of Competitions
The Competition of Competitions is the play-off of the six winners and runners-up from the three short play competitions of 2018....

Caleb Estes
Jan 18, 20191 min read
The Powers That Be: play reading Monday, 14 January
‘The Powers That Be’ by Melville Lovatt Matt and Gary are ‘minding’ a man and awaiting instructions from the powers that be. Instructions...

Caleb Estes
Jan 2, 20191 min read


Player Playwright awards 2018
The annual Player Playwright awards have been revealed Best Actor: Johnny Hansler; runner up Phil Philmar Best Actress: Lynne O’Sullivan...

Caleb Estes
Dec 5, 20181 min read
Player Playwright Xmas Party - 7pm, Monday 3rd December
The annual Players Playwright Christmas Party includes buffet, canapes and a full entertainment programme of songs, skits and short...

Caleb Estes
Nov 27, 20181 min read
Eveline And Frank Are In Buenos Aires, by Richard Woulfe - 7.30pm, 26 November
Eveline has escaped her humdrum life in Dublin to live with Frank in Buenos Aires. However, Frank is not the success she believed, and...

Caleb Estes
Nov 20, 20181 min read
Monday 19 November, 7.30pm TALK: Playwriting by Danny Robins
An evening of insight with a talented and experienced writer from the worlds of TV, radio and stage dramas. Danny writes scripts for TV...

Caleb Estes
Nov 16, 20181 min read


UNDISCOVERED GEMS: The winners
Congratulations to Lynne O'Sullivan, whose play 'THE UNKINDNESS OF STRANGERS was voted winner on Monday's Player Playwright Short Play...

Caleb Estes
Nov 13, 20181 min read
Monday, 12 November, 7.30pm - UNDISCOVERED GEMS: Short Play Competition
See all the finalists in this term's short play competition for Members. The theme is UNDISCOVERED GEMS. Writers were asked to...

Caleb Estes
Nov 7, 20181 min read
Monday 5 November 7.30pm / Annual General Meeting
There is no play reading or talk this coming Monday. However all Player Playwright members are very welcome to attend and take part in...

Caleb Estes
Oct 30, 20181 min read
Monday 29 October, 7.30pm: #Me Three by Marc Blake
A man wakes, trussed to a table in a cellar. Behind him is a woman with a knife and an agenda. It is his ex-girlfriend, Fiona. She has...

Caleb Estes
Oct 23, 20181 min read
TALK: Writing radio drama by Martin Jameson. Monday 22 October, 7.30pm
Martin Jameson is an award winning radio playwright with over eighty credits for BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3 spanning three decades. His most...

Caleb Estes
Oct 17, 20181 min read


Carers by Terry Sanderson, Monday 15 October, 7.30pm
As people live longer and institutional care in old age becomes harder to find, a new generation of carers – mostly women – has emerged....

Caleb Estes
Oct 9, 20181 min read
Monday, 8 October, 7.30pm - St Etheldreda’s Day
A comedy in one act. The carefree annual tournament at the Saffron Walden Lawn Tennis Club is marred only by the occasional shower – and...

Caleb Estes
Oct 2, 20181 min read


Monday, 1 October, 7.30pm - In a Time of Crisis by Robert Frew
Schools are closed, doctors are on strike and motorists have to queue for hours for a litre of fuel. A once great democracy is in crisis...

Caleb Estes
Sep 25, 20181 min read


Monday, 24 September - Talk: Playwriting & Theatre 503 with Steve Harper: PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME S
The 503 Theatre in Battersea, south London, has built a reputation as one of the most important theatres in the UK for new work and for...

Caleb Estes
Sep 18, 20181 min read


Coral's Anus by Martin McNamara, Monday 17 September
1968. The Counterculture is in full swing and Revolution is in the air, from San Francisco to Grosvenor Square, but does the ordinary...

Caleb Estes
Aug 25, 20181 min read
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