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This year´s winners

The winners of this year’s Prague Post Playwriting Contest, for the best new short play in English, have been chosen.

The winner of the Playwriting Prize and receiver of the 20,000 Kč cash prize is Nolwenn Treguer, for her play Mrs.Svoboda and the Baobabs.

Nolwenn Treguer also won the Best Script by Non-Native English Speaker.

The Audience Award for the best performance was awarded based on the audience’s votes. The prize went to the play Public Relations by Jeff Kellner, directed by Brian Caspe and starring Jat Dhillon, Peter Hosking and Todd Kramer.

Congratulations!

Hereby we would like to thank all the people who participated in the festival and who helped to the festival to reach such a successful end.

Opening night

The turnout was really great tonight for the 2nd Annual Prague Post Playwriting Contest. The shows were ready and the audience was thrilled. A big congratulations to all of the actors, writers, directors and stage crew that made this a success.

If you missed it, you still have 3 more chances! See below for details on where you can pick up your tickets. Do not miss this show! Here are some highlights to whet your appetite:

Minor.

Anthony Wilks’ The Open Tomb:

Jeff Kellner’s: Public Relations

Nolwenn Treguer’s Mrs. Svoboda and the Baobabs:

Four nightly performances

Feb. 23 and 27 at 8 p.m.

March 1 at 8 p.m.

Gala evening - March 5 at 6:30 p.m.

Divadlo Minor (Vodičkova 6, Prague 1)

Mrs. Svobodna and the Baobabs

Script: Nolwenn Treguer, Director: Julek Neumann

On the eve of their 30th wedding anniversary, Mrs Svobodna and her husband arrive at a small hotel to celebrate before continuing on their way to Africa. She dreams of seeing the baobab trees. She travels with many suitcases and a mysterious plant. Her life will change irrevocably after she meets the inquisitive Bellboy, himself planning to leap into marriage the next day.

The Open Tomb

Script: Anthony Wilks, Director: Melanie Rada

Robert, a university lecturer, runs away to London to devote himself to reading, and falls in love with Lucy. He doesn’t want to tell her the truth about his life so he pretends to be someone else. He also hires a private detective to follow her around, to find out what she’s like and to watch her in case she does anything suspicious. But the lies start to multiply as we realize the private detective isn’t who he appears to be.

A play about lies, charming stories and how the truth is not important. 
 

Public Relations

Script: Jeff Kellner, Director: Brian Caspe

Baghdad 1990: Two writers at the Ministry of Information have quite an assignment: Write some catchy ads to attract tourists to Iraq. They are being helped by Nick, a clever American PR consultant. But, when war breaks out, Nick finds himself working on an interesting new project.

A play about language, culture and power. 

Tickets for the performances can be purchased at:

Divadlo Minor - Vodičkova 6, Prague 1 

The Prague Post - Štěpánská 20, Prague 1

GLOBE - Pštrossova 6, Praha 1 

Jet Set (Hotel ICON) - V jámě 6, Prague 1 

ANAGRAM Bookstore - Týn 4, Prague 1 

Café 35 (French Institute) - Štěpánská 35, Prague 1

Káva Káva Káva (Platýz) - Národní 37, Prague 1

Or through www.ticketportal.cz and www.ticketstream.cz   

Prizes: 200 CZK and 175 CZK (students) 

Support your theatre

Prague Post Playwriting Contest is Supporting English Theatre and Playwrights in Prague. 

We have the plays, we have three winners, and we will have the performances.  

Now we need your help! 

We simply couldn't organize this unique project without donors and sponsors. There is an opportunity for all who would like to become a part of this meaningful project. Your support will help revive the tradition of English-language theatre in Prague, help young and new English speaking artists and extend with us the cultural experience of this international city to all speakers of English. 

How you can help and support us? Become a Patron or Friend and support “Your theatre” in Prague”. 

Friends of the Prague Post Playwriting Contest can contribute:

500 Kč – 1 complimentary ticket

1,000 Kč –  2 complimentary tickets

Patrons of the Prague Post Playwriting Contest can contribute:

2,500 Kč – 4 complimentary tickets and 2 contest souveniers (T-shirts or posters)

5,000 Kč –  8 complimentary tickets, 4 contest souveniers (T-shirts or posters)

All Partons & Friends receive acknowledgement in program & lobby display (donor wall) & contest website.

Please send financial donations to:

The Prague Post Endowment Fund

ČSOB, Lazarská 6, Prague 1

Account No.: 178022282/0300, variabilní symbol: 05032008

(All donors will receive a receipt of donation.)

A Practical Course on Stage Management in the Theatre

For: English speaking students with an interest in the theatre 

When: January 15 – March 5, 2008  The course will concentrate on the supervision and monitoring of schedules, budgets, artists, and the physical stage. Among the topics covered will be the creation of the prompt book, recording the blocking, running rehearsals and calling the show. Students taking this course will work with directors on The Prague Post productions as stage managers and general technical assistants.  They will also meet weekly with the course instructor to discuss the production process. 

Cost: Admission is free of charge.  

A Special Opportunity for the 10 Semifinalists!

As an added insentive, the Prague Post has arranged for the 10 semifinalists to have the exclusive possibility of being represented by the agency Dilia. Dilia is a theatrical, literary and audiovisual agency representing a lot of the top writing talent in the Czech Republic for the last 55 years. In addition to a dominant influence in the Czech Republic, Dilia has strong contacts with agencies abroad and is very interested in working with local playwrights in copyrighting and licencing their work.

And the finalists are........

We are pleased to announce the finalists for the 2008 Prague Post Playwriting Contest (in alphabetical order):

• "Mrs. Svobodna and the Baobabs" by Nolwenn Treguer
• "The Open Tomb" by Anthony Wilks
• "Public Relations" by Jeff Kellner

Please join us in congratulating the finalists!

The plays will be produced at Divadlo Minor February 23, 27 and March 1 and 5. The winner will be announced on closing night, March 5th.

Auditions for the plays will be January 15th. Please contact Brian at 608 577 012 if you have questions about the production.

Semi-Finalists Announced!

We would like to thank all those that submitted to the contest. We received some really great plays and it was quite a challenge to narrow the field down to just 10. Here are the ten plays which are now in the semi-finals of this year's contest (in alphabetical order):

• East of Edinburgh
  
• Life Changes
  
• Mrs Svobodna and the baobabs
  
• Picketing with Prometheus
  
• Prague Cajovna
  
• Public Relations
  
• School of Hard Knocks
  
• The Open Tomb
  
• Wendy Goes Pop
  
• When the Waters Rise

Auditions: January 15th!

Calling all actors!

We are going to be having auditions for the finalists of the Prague Post Playwriting Contest (to be announced Jan. 9) on Tuesday, January 15 from 17:30 to 21:00.

hotel Arcotel Teatrino, Borivojova 53, Prague 3 (just up the hill from the tram stop ‘Lipanska’).

We don’t know how many roles are available or what types we’re looking for yet, but we will know on January 9th, so watch this space! Please prepare a short audition piece (monologue or poem) and be prepared to read from text provided.

Callbacks will be Thursday, January 17 from 17:30 to 21:00.

The performances will be February 23 (sat) and 27 (wed) and March 1st (sat) and 5th (wed). You will need to be flexible with scheduling the week before the show opens as we have limited time in the theater.

Looking forward to seeing everyone! If you have questions, please write me an email at brian@pragueplayhouse.com.

We've got judges!

We're pleased to announce that this year we have five celebrity judges to choose the best plays from among our entries! They are:

• Marcy Arlin
• Jim Haynes
• Marta Ljubkova
• Steffen Silvis
• Clare Wallace
  

Deadline for scripts is November 30th!

We know that a lot of you are working hard on your scripts. We just want to remind you that the deadline for submitting and paying for scripts is Friday, November 30th. If anyone has any questions or comments, please write to Marie Barylova at the Prague Post, playcontest@praguepost.com