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Script Scratch returns, in partnership with The Other Palace!
Join us to celebrate new writing in the heart of the West End. Hear extracts from up-and-coming playwrights, share constructive feedback to help them develop their work, and network in the bar afterwards with programmers, directors and producers!
How It Works: Each writer has two minutes to introduce their script, before a panel of actors read a ten-minute excerpt. Then you, the audience, have a few minutes to feedback via an app before a quick discussion with the writer.
After the event, we encourage you to stick around for a drink in the bar. Whether you are a writer seeking a producer, or a director looking to widen your pool of performers, your next collaboration could be one conversation away.
The Waiting Room by Akshay Sharan
Four young south Asian actors attempt to formulate a plan to address the increasingly bizarre and manipulative demands of the audition panel. Will their grievances be heard? Or will the perceived difference threaten to sever their bond?
Cast: Shivam Pallana, Manan Josh, Adil Hassan, Ikky Kabir
Designer: Joy Chen
Film: Don’t Recycle by Claudia Fielding
Film: Don’t Recycle is a four-hander political drama. In the imminent climate emergency that is flooding the poorest parts of London, our privileged Photographer and their Partner must decide to truly start living for other people or continue living for themselves.
Cast: Meg Clarke, Jessica Enemokwu
Designer: Deborah Piffer
Porridge by Rishi Rain
AN moves in with EM on a summer afternoon. AN is discovering what a new start looks like, whilst EM is coming to terms with the fact her mother is moving to South Africa. Porridge is a story about the stickiness of navigating boundaries, care, and expectation.
Cast: Matthew McGoldrick, Steph Sarratt
Designer: Kevin Murphy
Home Sweet Home by Eliana Ostro
Yasmin and Bea are best friends, and they live together in a retirement home. Bea is eighty and Yasmin is twenty-five. Yasmin is there to escape from her world, to live in a place where people have less to prove. But when someone starts to challenge her place in the home, will she be able to stay? And should she?
Cast: Marshall Stay, Georgina Armfield, Simone French, Megan Richards
Designer: Camille Godechoux
But The Wolf Survives by Lola Rose Wood
This is a story about wolves. The real wolves that hunt our forests, and the wolves that live under our beds and haunt our dreams. A tale of two siblings, when Laurel returns to the farmhouse where she grew up (and couldn’t escape fast enough) her little brother Rowan is still wrestling with the monsters she thought she’d left behind for good.
Cast: Daniel Rainford, Marie Williamson
Designer: Agnes Yeung