The 32. Edition of the National Theatre Festival (5-13 November, in Bucharest) launches a playwriter’s competition on this year’s NTF theme: “Fragile Borders. Fluid Histories”.
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The competition will encompass short texts (max. 30 min. reading time)
The jury to do the selection of the short texts includes Alina Nelega, Maria Manolescu and Peca Ștefan, whose texts are being staged all over the country as well as abroad, in state and independent theatres.
Selected authors will receive feedback and guidance during dramatic writing workshops. Each member of the jury will hold two online workshops during which texts will be discussed and improved.
Selected texts witll be presented as public readings in the NTF 2022 and published on www.liternet.ro.
The calendar of the competition:
- September: deadline for submitting short texts
- October: announcing the selection
- – 15. October: online meetings with the memebrs of the jury
- October: deadline for sending the final text versions.
Requirements for participating in the competition:
- The author’s CV
- A short text
- Compliance declaration (certifying that the author is the owner of the submitted text and that the author, should he/she be selected, will participate in the dramatic writing workshops).
The documents must be sent to [email protected].
“I strongly believe that, in order to have local relevant and powerful playwriting, we need to create contexts that foster and support the production of new texts. The National Theatre Festival is a high visibility context, that this year also provides a representation opportunity for contemporary playwriting – which needs to be seen and heard.” (Mihaela Mihailov, NTF curator, alongside Oana Cristea Grigorescu and Călin Ciobotari).