About the Contest
About the contest
The Post Playwriting Contest started in 2007 with the goal of bringing together artists and the theatergoing community. For inaugural year, more than 100 scripts were submitted. The winning play was "Burn Your Bookes" by Richard Byrne, who offered the following thoughts for this year's contest:
“When playwrights sit down at their desks, they’re writing with one goal in mind: To see their play produced.
”After all, a script only truly becomes a play when a director takes up the playwright’s vision, and actors wrestle with the characters, and sets and costumes and lights and sound animate it. And, of course, when an audience finds its seats and the theater plunges into that sweetly anticipatory darkness.
Prague Playwriting Contest Cast of 2007
”For the three finalists of the 2008 Prague Playwriting Contest, that goal will become reality. It certainly did for me last year when I sent off my one-act play, “Burn Your Bookes,” to the judges late last fall. By late February, I was in Prague, watching my play take shape in rehearsals, with the talented Czech director Julek Neumann at the helm.
”As gratified as I was to actually win the contest last year, the real prize was that production and everything that came with it: the new friendships forged in the crucible of putting on a show, the attention lavished on my play by the contest’s tireless and savvy organizers, and the things I learned as a writer through the process and the performances.
”I can’t say enough good things about The Prague Playwriting Contest. But there’s only way for you to have the same fabulous experience that I had in Prague: Get writing and submit your work!
Buffet after the closing ceremony 2007.
