24-Hour Playwriting Competition Dramatised Reading
There will be staged readings of four select winning scripts from the 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2023 — two scripts from each competition category — guided by established theatre practitioners Chong Tze Chien, Tan Shou Chen, and Jean Tay and supported by thespians Serene Chen, Sindhura Kalidas, Yazid Jalil, Ching Shu Yi, Julie Wee, Darren Guo, and Edward Choy.
Winners of 24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2023
Our warmest congratulations to the winners of the 2023 edition of the competition!
OPEN CATEGORY
First Prize:
Threnody by Wong Chen Seong
Second Prize:
In The Limbo by Choy Chiaw Yee
Third Prize:
A Static Life by Choy Chee Yew
Special Mention:
Motion Sickness by Yam Rong Yao, Timothy
YOUTH CATEGORY
First Prize:
Khichuri by Triparna Poddar
Second Prize:
Buy My House by Er Kay Lynn
Third Prize:
A Voracious Shark, Gorge, and Corner by Eng Wan-Yu Owena
Special Mention:
Back Again by Ariel Mary Puhaindran
24-Hour Playwriting Competition 2023
Sat–Sun, 15–16 July 2023, 11am–11am (24 hours)
Figment Club House (11 Lorong 24A Geylang)
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Registration Fee: $55/- (Inclusive of meals)
The much loved, annual 24-Hour Playwriting Competition invites you to be part of its 2023 edition! This year the competition returns to the on-site sleepover at Figment Club House. Situated in the heart of a quaint street in Geylang, Figment Club House is one of the eight carefully conserved shophouses that seamlessly integrates contemporary design and creative functionality with the traditional charm of the archetypal shophouse form. It serves as a platform for cultural expression, within a neighbourhood full of eclectic, historical richness, quirky charm and old-world calm.
In classic competition tradition, the themed element will be revealed on the day of the competition, and various stimuli will be provided throughout the 24 hours, which you will need to incorporate into your script. Your submitted script can be a 10 to 20 minutes performance piece (est. 8 – 15 pages). We welcome you to let your imagination run wild — to write plays for stage, digital and hybrid possibilities.
Winners may get a chance to see their entries staged by T:>Works! An added bonus: Mentorship and support by established playwrights, directors, actors and producers to develop the works for either ‘live’ and/or digital stages.
Competition Categories
Youth Category: 15–18 years old
Open Category: 19 years and above
Prizes (Youth Category)
First Prize: S$350
Second Prize: S$250
Third Prize: S$150
Prizes (Open Category)
First Prize: S$350 + A one-year membership to Figment Arts Club
Second Prize: S$250
Third Prize: S$150
For any enquiries, please email 24pwc@tworksasia.org.
Don't Fret. Just Write.: Playwriting Workshop by Chong Tze Chien
Sat, 24 June 2023, 11am–1.30pm & 3–5.30pm
@ 72-13, Home of T:>Works
Workshop Fee: $30 (Participants of the playwriting competition enjoy 50% discount for the workshop at $15)
Registration:
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Participate in our playwriting workshop Don’t fret. Just write. by playwright and director Chong Tze Chien!
Chong Tze Chien invites emerging and new writers, and any one interested in scriptwriting as a medium, to attend this 2.5-hour workshop. Aptly titled Don’t fret. Just write., it encourages playfulness with the craft of writing. Tze Chien shares strategies to fire the imagination and create space for writing flow – a space and time where the subconscious connect with the conscious state. If you think you have a story to tell and need an entry point to begin writing, then this workshop is just the starter for you.
About Chong Tze Chien
A graduate from the NUS theatre studies programme, Tze Chien is the Artistic Director of NUS Stage, a core member of The Finger Players and an award-winning playwright/director. Some of the awards he has won include the Singapore Dramatist Award and The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards. His plays have been staged in Singapore, UK, Budapest, Taiwan and Japan. He has two collections of plays containing critically acclaimed plays such as Charged (The Business Times’ top ten Singapore play of all time) and PIE. For his contributions to Singapore Theatre, he was awarded the Young Artist Award 2006 by Singapore’s National Arts Council.
Don’t fret. Just write. is part of T:>Works’ 24-Hour Playwriting Competition preparatory processes.