Crucial Conversations
Disabled Playwrights' Legacy
In partnership with the King's Head Theatre
Disabled Playwrights' Legacy in Print – where is it?
Sunday 13th March - 5pm
Zoom
This event will open for public bookings soon.
Co-hosted by Vici Wreford-Sinnott and Mark Ravenhill
Where are the published works young disabled people can see themselves reflected in and the plays which tell the stories of our lives? Where are the authentic protagonists who excite, engage, taking us on either fantastical journeys or into gritty realities? And the ones which are published, do they all sit together somewhere as part of the canon, visible and celebrated? So why doesn’t our work get published, and what are we going to do about it?
This conversation grew out of a twitter conversation last year between Vici Wreford-Sinnott and legendary playwright Mark Ravenhill.
Mark put a call out for plays he could recommend to a colleague, and Vici suggested ensuring that plays by disabled playwrights were added to the list. And then began the search for published disabled playwrights. And whilst we were able to pull together a list of fantastic works after twitter call outs, the sheer volume of work which has been written, performed, and toured but remains unpublished and therefore without the same legacy as our peers, hit home.
There have been suggestions of publishing retrospectives in anthology form, talking to publishers, creating a script depository so that the unpublished scripts are available to read and potentially be performed by others.
25 disabled writers for theatre will take part in this conversation and we'll be joined by Katherine Murphy (Irish Theatre Institute, talking about their experience of promoting through digital), Matt Applethwaite (Nick Hern books) to hear about their experience and any thoughts or advice they might have on our conversation
We realise not all writers of theatre describe themselves as playwrights and so for the purposes of this conversation it relates to performance texts for live performance.
This conversation is aimed at UK based disabled playwrights and theatre writers to open up a discourse around this subject – actions may arise from the meeting but equally they may not. It is entirely dependent on who attends and what we all discuss.
If you book a place and your plans change please let us know so that we can offer a place to another artist. Thanks.
Funded by Arts Council England
Disabled Playwrights' Legacy in Print – where is it?
Sunday 13th March - 5pm
Zoom
This event will open for public bookings soon.
Co-hosted by Vici Wreford-Sinnott and Mark Ravenhill
Where are the published works young disabled people can see themselves reflected in and the plays which tell the stories of our lives? Where are the authentic protagonists who excite, engage, taking us on either fantastical journeys or into gritty realities? And the ones which are published, do they all sit together somewhere as part of the canon, visible and celebrated? So why doesn’t our work get published, and what are we going to do about it?
This conversation grew out of a twitter conversation last year between Vici Wreford-Sinnott and legendary playwright Mark Ravenhill.
Mark put a call out for plays he could recommend to a colleague, and Vici suggested ensuring that plays by disabled playwrights were added to the list. And then began the search for published disabled playwrights. And whilst we were able to pull together a list of fantastic works after twitter call outs, the sheer volume of work which has been written, performed, and toured but remains unpublished and therefore without the same legacy as our peers, hit home.
There have been suggestions of publishing retrospectives in anthology form, talking to publishers, creating a script depository so that the unpublished scripts are available to read and potentially be performed by others.
25 disabled writers for theatre will take part in this conversation and we'll be joined by Katherine Murphy (Irish Theatre Institute, talking about their experience of promoting through digital), Matt Applethwaite (Nick Hern books) to hear about their experience and any thoughts or advice they might have on our conversation
We realise not all writers of theatre describe themselves as playwrights and so for the purposes of this conversation it relates to performance texts for live performance.
This conversation is aimed at UK based disabled playwrights and theatre writers to open up a discourse around this subject – actions may arise from the meeting but equally they may not. It is entirely dependent on who attends and what we all discuss.
If you book a place and your plans change please let us know so that we can offer a place to another artist. Thanks.
Funded by Arts Council England
