Zia Ahmed, Tife Kusoro and Ruby Thomas Announced as Jerwood New Playwrights Writers
Zia Ahmed, Tife Kusoro and Ruby Thomas have all been offered full commissions to support them in developing their writing practice.by BWW News Desk
Now in its 26th year, The Royal Court Theatre Jerwood New Playwrights Programme continues to support emerging writers to develop their practice, take risks and create extraordinary new work. Zia Ahmed, Tife Kusoro and Ruby Thomas have all been offered full commissions to support them in developing their writing practice.
Since 1994, the Jerwood New Playwrights programme at the Royal Court has supported 78 writers who have had their plays produced in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs and the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. In 2020, the scheme was relaunched with a new focus on writer development opportunities for emerging playwrights with writers Hester Chillingworth, Somalia Nonyé Seaton and Ross Willis receiving the commissions.
News of Our Age Comes to Life in the Rooms of a Theater
Tired of reading the headlines? You can watch artistic interpretations of the stories of our era by trailing actors in a Living Newspaper production, section by section.
Letty Thomas, left, and Alana Jackson in “The Tree, the Leg and the Axe,” part of the Royal Court Theater’s “Living Newspaper” series of plays online.Credit.Helen Murray
April 22, 2021
LONDON Have you had enough of wading through newsprint or scrolling online? The Royal Court Theater has a bracing online alternative that refracts current events through a vibrant and eclectic array of plays that give many of today’s hot-button topics a piquant spin.
THE Royal Court Theatreâs
Living Newspaper draws on the radical history of the Federal Theatre Project of the US that mobilised unemployed artists and theatre workers after the Great Depression. The Living Newspaper was a politically themed response to a time of civic and economic trauma and the commissioned plays dealt with issues of the day.
The Royal Court has created six editions of living newspapers for our times, led by writers, and working with freelance actors, designers, stage managers, technicians and choreographers. Each edition launches with a live streamed performance of
The Front Page, and then is available to watch for two weeks.