The 2nd Kakiscript Playwriting Competition

Kakiseni a href="http://www.kakiseni.com/articles/features/MTM2NA.html"have announced a second playwriting competition/a :br /span style="font-style: italic;"/spanblockquotespan style="font-style: italic;"In 2007, we launched the Kakiscript Playwriting Competition, and were inundated by entries from all over the country. Ten winners were selected, and the prize-winning plays were published in a book, 100 Minutes to Change the World./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"We’re ready for more./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"The 2nd Kakiscript Playwriting Competition, the richest playwriting competition in the country, is back and you have 3 months, or 93 days to create a ten minute play. A great ten-minute play, to be precise./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Read on for more information./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"What We Are Looking For/spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"This year, we’re setting a theme : Conflict/Resolution/spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"We are looking for original, sophisticated works, which explore the idea of conflict, or the idea of resolution, or conflict and resolution jointly, or conflict versus resolution. If you have a different interpretation of the theme that we’ve suggested here, go for it!/spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Just make sure your work is engaging and rooted in the Malaysian experience./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Each play must run for duration of around 10 minutes, plus or minus two minutes. Submissions can be plays written in either English or Malay -- or a combination of both./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Note that we are looking for literature intended for performance; in other words, you should think about your play as theatre on stage as you write./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"What We Don’t Want/spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"We’re not looking for didactic or dogmatic plays. You are encouraged to contextualise your play with social and political issues, but don’t assume we want social or political tracts and commentaries. We want quality theatre. If you need to preach, write a sermon -- but don’t send it to us./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Why?/spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Kakiscript aims to encourage the creation of new, original Malaysian plays. We hope it will be an incentive for existing playwrights to produce work, and also an opportunity to unearth new talent. We also hope to encourage the creative exploration of issues affecting contemporary Malaysia./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"We will be publishing the ten winning entries in print, in a single volume; they will also be available for download from Kakiseni.com./spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Did We Mention Prizes?/spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"The playwright of the winning entry will receive RM10,000 in cash. Two runners-up will receive RM5,000 each. Seven consolation prize winners will receive RM2,000 each./spanspan style="font-style: italic;" /spanspan style="font-style: italic;"/span/blockquotespan style="font-style: italic;"/spanSee the website for further information and rules.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7912730-6150471352222762904?l=thebookaholic.blogspot.com'//div

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