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Prague Playwriting Contest

Tickets are now on sale in:

Minor Theater, Vodičkova 6, Prague 1, tel: 222 231 351

Globe Bookstore, Pštrossova 6, Prague 1, tel: 224 934 203

online at Minor Theater store

Ticket reservations can be made by phone: 775 36 10 10 or email: tickets@pragueplayhouse.com

Ticket prices are:

220 Kč (regular), 180 Kč (student) for Feb. 21, 25 and Mar. 1, 2009

250 Kč (regular), 200 Kč (student) for Mar. 4, 2009, price includes the closing award ceremony and buffet with drinks

About the contest

The contest started in 2007 with the goal of bringing together local artists and theatergoing community. The contest is open to authors, who live or have lived in the Czech Republic. The best three plays as selected by our panel of expert judges are fully produced in cooperation with Prague Playhouse and Minor Theater.

The best script is awarded 20,000 Kč.

For more detailed information on the contest go to its Web site at www.playwritingcontest.cz or write to brian@pragueplayhouse.com

Finalists for 2009 have been selected

Early Retirement by David Fisher; directed by Gordon Truefitt

Forced Entry by Dale Bruton; directed by Todd Krammer

The King Size by Ted Weesner, jr.; directed by Melanie Rada

Performances will be at Minor Theater, Vodičkova 6, Prague 1:
Feb 21, 2009 at 8p.m.
Feb 25, 2009 at 8p.m.
Mar 1, 2009 at 8 p.m.
Mar 4, 2009 at 6:30 p.m., award ceremony and buffet to follow

Judges this year are:

Jim Haynes

Jim is the founder of the Traverse Theatre, the London Traverse Theatre Company and the Arts Laboratory. He was awarded the Whitbread Prize for his “contribution to theater in Britain.”

Marta Ljubková

Marta has been working as a freelancer in different Czech theatres as an author, dramaturge and director (Naive theatre, Liberec, National Theatre in Ostrava, Universal NoD, Prague, Lyra Pragensis Prague etc.)

In 2003, she wrote and directed a show for the Hungarian theatre Ciróka, Kecskemét.

She also publishes literary and theatre reviews especially for the cultural newspapers A2.

Marcy Arlin

Marcy (Director The First Time; Artistic Director. Immigrants' Theatre Project) founded the OBIE-winning ITP in 1988. Recent directing work includes The First Time by Michal Walczak for the Made in Poland Festival (59E59Theatre), the German-language translation of Caridad Svich's Tropic of X, Artheater of Koln, Germany) and Jovanka Bach's Marko the Prince (Barrow Group Theatre). She is an original member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Core Member of Theatre w/o Borders, No Passport. Fulbright Senior Specialist 2005-09 to the Babes Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania, and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (2009). Directing venues include: Soho Rep, LaMama, 59E59, HERESY (Heresy/Progress with Ian Morgan), Vineyard, EST, NY Int'l Fringe, Dublin Fringe, The Public, NYTW, Barrow Group Theatre, BAX, Tenement Theatre, Teatrul Imposibil/Nat'l Theatre/Romania, Yiddish Book Ctr. Notable plays: 365/365/Suzan-Lori Parks, Here/Sabina Bermana, Red Bull/Vera Ion, (Play Company), Name Day/Jovanka Bach; Australian Aboriginal Voices/Andrea James, Waxing West/Saviana Stanescu (in Romanian), Journey Theatre-theater project with survivors of torture (w/ Victor Maog/Ruth Margraff), Ellis Island Museum. Curator/Director: Czech Plays in Translation, Dis-Location/Re-Invention (MESTC), After the Fall: New Romanian Theatre. Guest speaker on Immigrant Theater: 2003 Prague Quadrennialle, Yale University, Univ. of Chicago (her alma mater), Brown University. Lecturer, CUNY. Editor, Czech Plays in Translation: the NY Series, released by the Martin E. Segal June 2009.