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24-Hour Playwriting Competition, Audience Feedback, Dramatised Reading, Music, Performance, Photography, Reading, TheatreWorks Writing and Community Programme, Video Art, Voices of the Marginalised, Writers Lab,About
The Writers’ Laboratory, conceived by TheatreWorks Artistic Director Ong Keng Sen, is now entering its 12th year since its first inception in 1990. In the next two years it will be headed by its new Singapore Wing’s Associate Artistic Director Tan Tarn How. It will continue its aims of providing new and emerging playwrights opportunities through workshops, competitions, mentoring and readings to hone their creative writing skills. It also provides an artistic platform for mature and established playwrights to contribute new plays to the Lab. In turn, the Lab serves as an avenue for writers who desires to develop their concepts, themes and characterisation through interaction with an informed and critical audience at various stages of development.
WLAB01: Singapore Young Dramatists Award
SYDA is all about encouraging and celebrating the spirit of creativity. It is the only competition that exists currently to provide a platform for young playwrights and to acknowledge schools’ contribution in inculcating a love for the arts.
WLAB02: 24-Hour Playwriting Competition
Started in 1997, the 24-Hour Playwriting Competition sees aspiring playwrights from all walks of life creating plays in various settings, having to finish a play in 24 short hours. The participants are challenged to create a short play or full-length play within the time frame, incorporating the given stimuli. This fun element gives playwriting a unique profile and is in line with TheatreWorks’ continuous commitment to nurture new playwrights and Singapore writing. From the zoo to on board a cruise, TheatreWorks has held the competition in non-conventional sites in the last couple of years. The 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2002 (20 & 21 April 2003) will be held at IKEA.
WLAB03: Hearing Voices
A one-year programme involving writers, actors, directors and other artists (visual and performance) to unearth the voices that have not been accessible to English-language theatre here, and to bring them to life. Hearing Voices consists of a series of presentations:
– Hearing Voices One: Discovery
– Hearing Voices Two: Response
– Hearing Voices Three: Performance
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