Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Playwrights panned for lack of 'outstanding work'
smh.au: The annual national Richard Burton Award for New Plays has been axed this year due to ''a lack of outstanding work'' despite 103 entries. While every Black Swan Theatre show staged at the Heath Ledger Theatre during the 2011 season has been a sell-out and four world premieres are now scheduled for next year, a $30,000 cash incentive for new playwrights will not be awarded by the company and its patrons. The Richard Burton Award for New Plays is one of the richest prizes available for unproduced Australian work created by young budding playwrights.
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It is shocking how much I have read lately about the playwriting problem the arts industry has encountered. The decreasing numbers of original writings is troubling. I think it's good that this article discusses not just the issue at hand, but also some reasons that this is occurring and also the possible solutions to this problem. Money is a huge part of it, as this article states, and looking for resources is a great step. It is sad that there were so few original works that the award could not be given to anyone, but hopefully there will be a more positive turn out next year.
This makes me really sad. the amount of good new works i feel has allot to do with the lacking of ingenuity and excess of repetitive story telling. there are stories to be told but not when every story being told is the same story where the writer is just trying to stay current. it seems like right now everyone is writing the same stuff the same ripple in the water politcal agenda theatre that has grown so trite, so very trite. Im glad they decided not to have the award rather than giving it ut anyway to someone who didnt really deserve it.
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