June
20
BTC 2021
Thank you so much for submitting your play to the British Theatre Challenge 2021. Our international playwriting competition saw entries from 20 different countries, showing us just what a wealth of talent there continues to be around the world.
What’s really stood out this year has been the authenticity of the characters and their dialogue. It seems that while we’ve been separated this past year, you’ve been listening even more closely and responding to what’s around you, working hard in these challenging circumstances to reflect the humanity that surrounds us all. We as readers have laughed, cried, and felt your work, thank you.
Congratulations if your play has been listed below as you have been marked in the top 25% of submissions and placed on our Longlist for this year’s playwriting competition. If your play has not been selected, remember, this is only the opinion of our readers and other theatre professionals may have a different opinion so please keep writing and putting your work out there to be discovered.
In Alphabetical Order:
| A Gift to Forget |
| A Lovely Day for a Boating Trip (and to kill your spouse) |
| A Simple Matter of Life and Death |
| A Visit |
| Absent |
| Agathe |
| And One More Thing… |
| Annexing the Palisades |
| Antiseptic |
| Anything But Dogs |
| Armchair Critic |
| Artist Unknown |
| Bananas |
| Batavian |
| Baubles, Bangles, and Bankruptcy |
| Budget Airlines Flight 711 |
| Building Ten |
| Can There Be Justice For TJ |
| Caperucita (Little Red) |
| Captcha |
| Chains And Rings |
| Churchyard Reckoning |
| Clara and Serra and The Talking Bear |
| Cleaning House |
| Company Fracture |
| Criminal Counsel |
| Cut it out |
| Cutthroat |
| DARK |
| Darkenss into Light |
| Dead Man Balking or the Kiss of Death |
| Destiny is a Careless Waiter |
| Dolly’s Dilemma |
| Dominoes |
| Each Fallen Robin |
| Eggshells |
| Faux Future |
| Feet First |
| Fig Dude |
| Fine Young Assholes |
| God is Trans |
| Going Up |
| Growing Old WithOUT Grace |
| Hal and His Atomic Ray Gun |
| Hello Stranger |
| His Love |
| I’m still the same person inside |
| In Re: Radding v Glazer |
| Intimate |
| Jail/Bait |
| Kalgary Will Survive the Death of the West |
| Knock |
| Lamb |
| Last Rites |
| Lionheart |
| Lovestruck |
| Maizie and Willow, Brown Penny, Blue Pillow |
| Memory, Speak |
| Midnight at the Pancake Shack |
| Motherhood |
| Motherland |
| Muddle Management |
| My Baby Your Baby |
| On the Greene at Runnymede |
| One Naughty Box |
| Open House |
| Our Finest Work |
| Our Fortnight |
| Plastic People |
| Quinn Doesn’t Care |
| Red Laces |
| Relative Values |
| Revelations: Book of Lucy |
| Rude Awakening |
| Safe and Sound |
| Scorpion |
| See, Invisible |
| Soul Traders |
| Sounds from The Merry-go-round |
| Sustain Me |
| The Ask |
| The Circle of Life |
| The Gift |
| The Hand We’re Dealt |
| The Injured Party |
| The Key to Life |
| The Magic in Christopher |
| The Orange One |
| The Origin of the Species |
| The Tea Test |
| The Underground Angel |
| The Waiting Room |
| The World Is Flat |
| Two Sisters |
| Tybalt and Nutella |
| Unfinished Portrait |
| Unlike Father and Son |
| Unplugged |
| We Seem to Be Conversing |
| When’s Jimmy Gettin’ Back? |
| Whispering to my Pram – Voices of the Single Mummy |
| Wrestling |
| You Butterfly |
| You fell from The Swing |
Now we have the challenging yet thoroughly enjoyable task of creating a shortlist. All being well, this should be completed by 20th July.
We believe that playwrights play an important role in the world, whether it be highlighting inequality, encouraging debate on social issues or allowing people to be transported to an imagined world, which is why the British Theatre Challenge is so important to us as a company.
If you have any feedback about the running of the competition, we would value your comments.
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