martinplayerMay 26, 20211 minActors Talking - Monday 7th June, 7.30pmPlayer Playwrights takes a break for the Bank Holiday and returns on Monday 7 June with a night devoted to our actor members. Following...
martinplayerMay 19, 20211 minWriters Talking : 7.30pm, Monday 24 May, 2021Why do people watch theatre at all? To see the world through fresh eyes. To live, for an hour or two, more intensely. So what, as...
martinplayerMay 15, 20211 minThan & Now short play contest winnersCongratulations to Matthew Partridge and Sally Sheringham whose entries in our latest short play contest were voted the audience...
martinplayerMay 11, 20211 minVinegar and Brown Paper - 7.30pm, Monday 17 MarchVinegar and Brown Paper by Richard Fitchett Vinegar and Brown paper is the fictionalised story of a true event that took place in New...
martinplayerMay 5, 20211 min'Then & Now' short play contest - 7.30pm, Monday 10 May 2021Player Playwrights returns with an evening of entries from our latest Members short play contest. The theme is THEN & NOW. The brief:...
martinplayerApr 20, 20212 minThe Accident - 7.30pm, Monday 26 April 2021The Accident by Tom Pauk An unlikely, long-distance friendship strikes up between an Indian call-centre operative and the man he cold...
martinplayerApr 14, 20212 minThe Art of the Monologue - 7.30pm Monday 19 April, 2021Player Playwrights’ online programme of readings and events restarts on Monday 19 April with ‘The Art of the Monologue’, a discussion and...
martinplayerMar 30, 20212 minPlayer Playwrights takes a break for EasterThe latest season of Player Playwrights’ events closed with a fascinating and enlightening evening in the company of Laurence Marks and...
martinplayerMar 23, 20212 minFOR ONE NIGHT ONLY - MARKS AND GRAN: 7.30pm, Monday 29 March 2021A break from our normal play readings with an evening in the company of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The legendary writing...
martinplayerMar 18, 20211 minFOUR SHORT PLAYS: 7.30pm, Monday 22 March 2021Join us next Monday for the four overspill plays from the SAME CHARACTER, DIFFERENT DAY competition The plays: MR BENNET AND MISS...
martinplayerMar 11, 20211 minSAME CHARACTER, DIFFERENT DAY CONTEST - 7.30pm MONDAY 15 MARCHAn evening of shorts from our Members rifting on the theme of Same Character, Different Day Their mission was to place a familiar...
martinplayerMar 3, 20211 minA Night of Monologues 2: 7.30pm, Monday 8 March 2021A second night of short monologues from Player Playwrights Members. Not to be missed. PASTIES by Peter Carty - read by Phil Philmar A...
martinplayerFeb 23, 20211 minTHE MODERN ALCHEMIST - 7.30pm, Monday 1 March 2021A COMEDY FOR THE STAGE BY FRANCIS BECKETT THE MODERN ALCHEMIST derives from Ben Jonson’s farce The Alchemist, first performed in 1610....
martinplayerFeb 17, 20211 minSaving Grace - 7.30pm, Monday 22 February 2021SAVING GRACE - A RADIO COMEDY BY KAREN BARTHOLOMEW A middle-aged and uncompromising comedy, SAVING GRACE follows divorcee Grace -...
martinplayerFeb 9, 20211 minOn The Verge : 7.30pm, Monday 15 February 2021On The Verge by Mary Conway Married couple Warwick and Ella keep themselves to themselves and, in fact, have stopped going out altogether....
martinplayerFeb 5, 20211 minLatest short play contest: SAME CHARACTER, DIFFERENT DAYFor this term’s competition, 'SAME CHARACTER, DIFFERENT DAY' Members are asked to place a familiar fictional character in an unfamiliar...
martinplayerFeb 2, 20211 minLaurel and Hancock: 7.30pm, Monday 8 February 2021Laurel and Hancock by Clive Goodman In 1960s Hollywood Stan Laurel is retired and in the phone book. Anyone, from his fans, to world...
martinplayerJan 26, 20211 minSurvival of the Fittest: 7.30pm Monday 1 February 2021Monday night reading: Survival of the Fittest by Ian Reade Survival Of The Fittest is a thirty-minute pilot episode for a TV show about a...
martinplayerJan 22, 20211 minLUNCH DATE & THE PALACE GARDEN : 7.30pm, Monday 25 JanuaryTwo new short plays from playwright Member Robert Frew: LUNCH DATE Dan and Abi are having an affair, of sorts, which plays out through...
martinplayerJan 12, 20211 minA Night of Monologues: 7.30pm, Monday 18 January 2021Player Playwrights had an amazing response to our call out to Members for short monologue pieces. So much so that we are having TWO...