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If you live within earshot of Wave 105 you can enter Southampton City Council's competition to encourage recycling.  Watch this film to find out more.

Closing date is Thursday 16 June. Click on the title of this post for all the details

Looking for love (stories)

Made From Scratch Theatre Company based in London are looking for submissions for the latest in their Scratch Nights. They want "all sorts of love stories" written as 15 min short plays. 
Those chosen will be performed this summer at "an exciting London venue".

Submit to mfsneedsyou@gmail.com. Put Scratch Night: Love Stories in the subject line,

Deadline July 1st 2010

Made From Scratch Theatre Company say that they "really want to help promote new writers in London. If that's you, regardless of experience we want to know..."  They also have a fan page on Facebook - check it out if you're thinking of submitting.

Suggestions for all sorts of love stories

• Forbidden love (please see novel on right.  please buy novel on right. please go to a library and borrow novel on right. please...you get the idea...)
• Love with the other - Beauty and the Beast....Lady into Fox by David Garnett (I recently set a two hour class around this book....and I fell in love with the work that came out of it)
• Tragic love - the lovers die: Romeo & Juliet, The English Patient.....
• Tragic love - one lover dies: Titanic, Love Story, PS I Love You...Goodbye Mr Chips...there must be heaps more...
• Happy love stories....Breakfast at Tiffany's (fillm not the book which has a very different ending) Goodbye Mr Chips...completely dried up....

Suggestions for an exciting London venue

• London Dungeon --- it's a potent mix: horror + love
• Holborn tube station Piccadilly line platform (just because I can often be found standing there) Love among the tube mice...
• Tower of London --- Beefeater and vegetarian
• House of Correction in Clerkenwell --- captive love.....

Any others?

Wanted: plays with human rights at the heart

Everyone Has the Right is a rolling script submission scheme (that means there is no deadline) for plays with human rights at their heart. It's a joint initiative between theatre company ICE AND FIRE and Amnesty International 

Writers are everyone who submits a script (full length theatre scripts only) will get written feedback on

•  theatricality
• dialogue 
• characterisation 
• whether it successfully explores a human rights story

The best plays will receive professional rehearsed readings in London. 

Those writers that ICE AND FIRE feel would benefit from longer term development will be paired with a dramaturg for more in-depth work on their script.

It sounds like a win win situation to me. Click on the title of this post for more information.International submissions welcome - as long as it's in English