The National Play Festival, nestled for 2009 within Ten Days on the Island, consists of a company of 23 actors (ten from Tasmania), sixteen writers, five directors and two dramaturgs.
Two weeks of hard work culminate in the Showcase season. It features six plays selected on merit from across the country. Our finest actors, directors and dramaturgs shepherd the play from page to stage where an audience is crucial to their next steps.
The Festival, however, is about more than just enjoyment of the new and the brave, we want you to Get Involved. We offer skills development sessions and the chance to turn your stories and ideas into opportunities.
The Festival celebrates writing for the theatre because a play is not just a literary object – it is a living, breathing entity. Challenging to usher into the world and surprising beasts once they start to strut and bellow, if you want to see a play take its first breath and be part of the air that the play breathes, if you want to learn from the best how to make a play kick or tickle, if you want to engage in the lively debate that feeds good plays and that good plays feed, you can’t miss this celebration of Australia’s finest new plays.
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Download the Festival Guide (1.2mb pdf)
Download the Overview Planner (432kb pdf)