Ten-Minute Play Contest Looking for Entries by NS Grade 10-12 Students

Eastern Front Theatre presents the twelfth annual Ten-Minute Play Contest. The contest, open to all Nova Scotia high school students in grades 10-12 encourages students to write for stage. Each script will be judged by a panel of professional theatre artists and may win a chance to be staged by professional actors during the Stages Theatre Festival. The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2014 please contact 902-466-2769 or email admin@easternfronttheatre.com for more information. Click Here for the guidelines and application form.

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Stages Theatre Festival & Magnetic North

June 19-29, 2014

The Stages Theatre Festival is joining forces with the Magnetic North Theatre Festival to put Halifax on the national theatre map. Eastern Front will put East Coast stories and artists in the spotlight through a variety of productions, play readings, workshops, and talkback sessions.  Magnetic North will focus on bringing the best touring productions from across Canada to Halifax.

For the full list of productions CLICK HERE

Submissions for Stages 2014

Around this time each year Eastern Front Theatre posts a call for submissions for Stages, our annual Spring festival of touring theatre. In 2014 we will be combining Stages with Magnetic North to present more shows than either of us could present on our own. Eastern Front will be responsible for presenting Atlantic Canadian productions in the Festival, while Magnetic North will focus on productions from the rest of the country.

With the excitement that this combined Festival has generated we have been overwhelmed with submissions and pitches coming in for the past twelve months. In addition to that we were already collaborating with a few companies about exciting new Atlantic Canadian projects.

For this reason, we have already committed to all of the projects that we can present in our 2014 festival and will not be posting a call for submissions. We apologize to those companies who were hoping to be presented in 2014, but didn’t feel it was fair to call for submissions when we already have more exciting productions than we can possibly host. That said, Stages and Magnetic North will offer a variety of opportunities throughout the festival allowing local theatre artists to engage with audiences, and present their work in public forums. More on that will be announced in the weeks to come. We also hope that any companies with projects that fit the Stages mandate will consider submitting their work in Fall 2014 for our 2015 festival.

Thank you for your understanding and I hope we see you June 18-28 at the combined Magnetic North and Stages Festival.

All the best,

Charlie Rhindress

Artistic Producer,

Eastern Front Theatre