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American Shakespeare Center Launches Playwriting Competition
The international competition will create a new canon of work inspired by Shakespeare’s 38 titles.
The Blackfriars Playhouse at the American Shakespeare Center.
STAUNTON, VA.: The American Shakespeare Center (ASC) has announced the launch of an international playwriting competition called “Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries,” which will create a modern canon of 38 companion pieces to the works of Shakespeare.
Over the next 20 years, the ASC will select one companion play for each of Shakespeare’s thirty-eight titles and produce two new plays in repertory with the company’s Shakespeare partner each year. The final year of the 20-year cycle will be a retrospective of the best work from the cycle. The ASC will offer two annual prizes of $25,000 to the winning playwrights, in addition to funds to support their travel and housing in Staunton for the development and rehearsal periods.
Click here for the full original article published by the AmericanTheatre.org editors on April 21, 2017.