African Playwright Competition

The German playwright initiative Theatralize promotes international understanding and dialogue through theater in many ways one of which is this competition. With an aim of researching new playwrights interested in seeing plays produced and performed in German they offer playwrights of African descent who love writing plays to submit their creations. The play should be at least 50 pages and may be about any topic of choice as long as it concerns your country and culture. It should revolve around your country and culture depicting any kind of legal, religious, colonial or other cultural process taking place in your country now or in the past. The winner and first runner up will be integrated into their catalogue and presented to German theatres in case of performance in any theatre nationwide the playwright will receive a percentage of the box office income- by contract. Theatralize functions as an interface between theatres and writers, they are open-minded with regard to all forms of collaboration and different ways to establish partnerships, wishing to support an international exchange of plays, texts, ideas, and projects. Deadline for the Playwright Competition is June 30th 2014. For more info, visit www.theatralize.com