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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Player Playwrights is on a break for the summer and returns in September
​ Congratulations to Sally Sheringham, whose play 'It's Over' won the recent annual PP short play competition. This year's theme was ...

Caleb Estes
Jul 10, 20181 min read
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7.30pm Monday 9 July: The Burning Tower by Helena Thompson
An interactive response to the Grenfell fire. The show explores the history of social housing and the shadow cast by the tragedy....

Caleb Estes
Jul 3, 20181 min read
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7.30pm Monday 2 July short play competition: The Eternal Triangle
A selection of Members' short play entries created on the theme The Eternal Triangle. Audience will vote on their favourite on the night....

Caleb Estes
Jun 26, 20181 min read
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Monday 25 June: Be Your Own Producer
Player Playwright members and playwrights including Kevin Mandry, Martin McNamara, Francis Beckett and Tony Diggle on their experiences...

Caleb Estes
Jun 19, 20181 min read
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Monday 18 June: The Spark by Ron Fernee
A stage play about young dreams and ambitions, parental love and betrayal, and the healing power of art. The entire action takes place at...

Caleb Estes
Jun 12, 20181 min read
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​ 7.30pm Monday 11 June: A Bundle of Rags by Erica Litten
An arms dealer working for the British Government and his wife are in Saudi Arabia whilst he overseas a new contract. Outside their...

Caleb Estes
Jun 5, 20181 min read
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Monday 4 June: Instructions Not Included & Group
A double bill of new short plays. Instructions Not Included by John Hill: As Sebastian tries to show his wife he doesn’t need the...

Caleb Estes
May 29, 20181 min read
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Talk: Jill Green on theatre casting, Monday, 21 May, 7.30pm
Jill Green is a full member of the Casting Directors Guild and she and her assistant have been casting big successful shows for years....

Caleb Estes
May 16, 20181 min read
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Familiar by Phoebe Sparrow
Monday 14 May, 7.30pm What happens to our childhood friendships when we grow up and grow apart? Do we continue to recognise each other?...

Caleb Estes
May 8, 20181 min read
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Monday 30 April, Area 52 by Marc Blake
Area 51 is the US Military site in the Nevada Desert where alien life was 'discovered.' Next to it is a giant hangar (Area 52) containing...

Caleb Estes
Apr 24, 20181 min read
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