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Read on for a schedule of forthcoming readings and venue details.

Click where appropriate in this paragraph to review draft guidelines for writers, directors, actors and discussion chairs wishing to be involved in awl readings. These will open in a separate window, so that you may return to this page simply by closing the additional window.

Click here for play index and cast lists since September 2002.

awl meets at at 7.30 pm on alternate Mondays
(with breaks at Christmas and in the Summer months) at:

The Polish Centre,
238 King Street,
Hammersmith,
London W6 0RF
(this address is not for correspondence)

(close to Ravenscourt Park underground station).

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Meetings are usually held on the fourth floor of the Polish Centre, in the Bridge Room opposite the bar.

Admission: £3 (members). Non-members are always welcome, but must pay an additional £2 for one-day membership. Full membership, costing £10 per year, is also available at the door (£13 including entrance).

 

The 2007/8 season continues as follows:
19th May The Winning Post by Lawrence McCambridge-Audini
2nd June The Killing of Justine by Michael Mullen
16th June

Tea Time by Michael Johnson

30th June

Edinburgh Night

A selection of awl members' productions on their way to this summer's Edinburgh Festival

14th July

Competition Night
Write a short play, 10 minutes maximum

The theme:  French Leave
Closing date for entries: 16th June 

We usually receive more scripts than we can schedule on these occasions, so there will be a selection panel. Please note that preference will be given to plays that actually fit the theme:  plays that make only a passing reference to it are unlikely to be selected. 

We very much appreciate that it takes a lot of work to produce a good ten-minute play.  We only ask that you don't take it TOO seriously:   it's best not to enter at all if you can't stand the thought of your play not being selected.  And please don't submit a script unless you intend to be present on competition night. 

To make things as fair as possible, writers' names will be withheld from the selection panel. Please use a pen name for your script, rather than your real name, and don't include any contact details in the script itself. Also remember to give your play a name other than "French Leave".

(We are no longer able to accept entries by email in view of the effort and expense of printing scripts for review by the selection panel.)

Present two printed copies of your script (three copies if your play includes five characters or more) to Tony Murphy at an awl meeting. Tony Murphy will keep a register of entrants' names but will not pass on this information to anyone else. He will play no part in the selection process.

The same degree of anonymity will be preserved on the evening of the competition itself, when the selected scripts will be presented under pen names.

See our recently updated guidelines for writers for full details. 
 

End of 2007/8 Season

 
2008/9 Season  
8th September Destination Planet Zero by Lesley North
22nd September tbc
6th October tbc
20th October tbc
3rd November tbc
17th November tbc
1st December tbc
15th December Competition night:  theme tbc

 

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