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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, explore model boxes created by talented new designers, share constructive feedback to help them develop their craft, and network in the bar afterwards with programmers, directors, and producers!
How It Works:
Each writer has two minutes to introduce their script. Designers have two minutes to share the inspiration for their set. A panel of actors read a ten-minute excerpt of the play. Then you, the audience, have a few minutes to feedback via an app before a quick discussion.
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.
PLAYS
This is Not a Gun Play
by Caroline Lezny
Can you teach someone to stay alive? In an alternate-reality Britain where guns are carried legally, where school shootings and lockdown drills are a fact of life, 6-form teacher Victoria revisits 3 days from her past in a desperate attempt to teach her students how to survive in an active-shooter situation.
Cast & Creatives:
Writer: Caroline Lezny
Director: Jack Clearwater
Designer: Despina Netchev
Savannah Kityo as Victoria
Conor O’Cuinn as Jack
Kate Donnachie as Kate
Trigger Warnings: Violence, Death, Grief, Blood, Gun Violence.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
by Jack Elverston
A linguistic archaeologist, whom cannot visualise, has trouble expressing herself. So she must overcome her fear of being vulnerable and be seen by those she holds dear.
Cast & Creatives:
Writer: Jack Elverstone
Director: Olivia Woods
Designer: Aija Miranda
David Austin-Barnes as Mr A. Fullstop
Amy Anderson as Georgia
Michael Sookhan as Jesperson
Chiara Lari as Malbi
Trigger Warnings: Suicide
The Good Device
by Elby Rue
The play follows Charlie, a man battling depression, who participates in a clinical trial testing a deep brain stimulation device that promises to ‘fix’ him — but as the device alters his emotions, he begins to question the true meaning of normality.
Cast & Creatives:
Writer: Elby Rue
Director: Kay Lynn Er
Designer: Atlanta Sonson-Chapman
Moana Doll as Agnes
Eliza Agrosoaie as Lucia
Tom Kingman as Felix
Joshua Kwan as Charlie
Trigger Warnings: Suicide, Mental Illness, Depression.
Shoreditch Muse
by Emma Zadow
1860 London. Jamaican laundry girl Fanny Eaton needs money and the ‘bad boys’ of British Art, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, need new models. Fanny begins posing for the beguiling Dante Gabriel Rossetti. But what do they see in each other? Who is in control as the paintings emerge? Inspired by the real life of Jamaican muse Fanny Eaton.
Cast & Creatives:
Writer: Emma Zadow
Director: Ciara Wynne
Designer: Min-Chien Feng
Peace Oseyenum as Fanny
Ben Sumrie as Gabriel
George Airey as James
Ellen Carnazza as Lizzie
Trigger Warnings: N/A.