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Province-wide Ten-Minute Play Contest

gets Students from Page to Stage

Halifax, NS – To encourage young authors to write original works for the stage, Eastern Front Theatre, in association with the Imperial Oil Foundation, Theatre Nova Scotia and Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, is proud to announce the eighth annual Ten-Minute Play Contest. Open to all Nova Scotia high school students attending grades 10 through 12, the Ten-Minute Play Contest encourages young people to challenge and express themselves through the creation of short play scripts.

“The Ten-Minute Play Contest is a highlight of the SuperNova Theatre Festival.  

It nurtures the next generation of theatre artists, while celebrating Eastern Front Theatre’s commitment to education and outreach programs,” said Scott Burke, Eastern Front Theatre’s Artistic Producer. “Every year the number of entries increases and we bear witness to the creativity and ingenuity of Nova Scotian high school students.”

Eagerly anticipated by school communities across the province, the eighth annual contest will recognize four playwrights: one first place winner and three runners-up. Once the four winning plays have been chosen by a panel of professional theatre artists, a professional director and team of professional actors will give each play a workshop. The four winning plays will then be given a staged reading as part of Eastern Front Theatre’s SuperNova Theatre Festival, running April 29 to May 9, 2010.

All High School students are encouraged to participate in the Ten-Minute Play Contest. Plays must be ten pages long and run a maximum of ten minutes.  Plays must have a minimum of 2 characters and a maximum of 4 characters with minimal set requirements. Plays submitted by mail must be postmarked no later than March 31, 2010 or may be dropped off Eastern Front’s offices until 5 p.m. on March 31, 2009.

For more information and contest rules, regulations and entry form, please go to http://www.easternfronttheatre.com/index.php/current-season/education-and-outreach/  or e-mail info@easternfronttheatre.com