First Draft

4 June 2015

Written by: Campaigns and communications

Arts, culture and events - Children and young people - Focus on Brixton

First Draft is a showcase of new short plays by Lambeth writers.

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First Draft

Sixteenfeet Productions and Lambeth Libraries present First Draft, a new writing festival, on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 June at Brixton Library. This April we re-launched the search for emerging playwrights in the borough and were bowled over by the number of plays we received.

The winning scripts were selected by a panel of industry judges:

  • Saffron Myers, Omnibus literary manager
  • Marina Caldarone, theatre and radio director
  • Denton Chikura, actor and playwright

The winners are:

  • Chazz Redhead – The Malteser Falcon
  • Poppy Corbett – It’s My Party
  • Conor Carroll – No More Starmix
  • Olu Alakija – The Body
  • Holly Robinson – Fault
  • David Lydon – Surveillance
  • Sandra Wareham – Fluteman – the Lambeth Reader’s Group Winner
  • fifteen year old Riona Millar -The Lilies – winner of the 21 and under category.

The selected plays will be developed with a director and cast, and staged as part of the Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival.

Date: Friday 5 and Saturday 6 June
Time: 7.30pm.
Location: Brixton Library, Brixton Oval, SW2 1LB.

Tickets: £8.00/£6.00

Contact: www.sixteenfeet.co.uk or Brixton Library 07958 448 690.

This is an excellent opportunity for aspiring writers to showcase new work, so come along and celebrate Lambeth’s talent with us.