News and events relating to Ronald Duncan
2012
April: NOW OPEN! The Ronald Duncan Annual Playwriting Competition, supported through a generous grant from the Ronald Duncan Literary Foundation. The winning play will be performed by Encore Theatre and will be financially underwritten to the maximum of £1,250. Performances will be in three studio theatres for two nights each.
Eligibility: The competition is open to new playwrights. For the purpose of the competition a new playwright will be someone who has had no more than one full length play professionally performed.
How To Apply: Applicants will have to meet the eligibility criteria above. They should then apply through submitting a treatment and three pages of script to the address on the information sheet. Competition Information Sheet. Before submitting an entry, participants must read our information sheet which contains competition entry rules and details, and includes an example treatment. Please visit www.encore01.com to read the information sheet outlining rules of entry.
Deadline: Treatments and script samplers must be received no later than Friday 25th May 2012
March:
The BBC recording of Ronald Duncan's 'Seasons' poems with music by David Cain (Radiophonic Music) is re-issed by Jonny Trunk Records. Buy the reissue-clear vinyl/CD along with more information about the recording plus interview with David Cain (& some sound clips) .... HERE
(pictured: '60s album cover of 'The Seasons' originally recorded by The Drama Workshop)
February: Duncan Foundation sponsors West Country segment of national poetry festival 'Winning Words' - for Cultural Olympiad 2012.
January-March
Encore Drama presents 'Jo’s War' by Lucy Bell, winner of the Ronald Duncan Playwriting Prize 2011/12.
A special trophy was presented to playwright Lucy after the January performance. (Pictured left: Ronald Duncan bust/trophy cast by Briony Lawson.)
Saturday 3 March 2012, 7.30pm: PORTSEA - The Groundlings Theatre, 42 Kent Street, Portsea, Portsmouth, P01 3BS. Tickets £10/£8.50 Box Office 02392-737 370 www.groundlings.co.uk
Tuesday 20 - Saturday 24 March 2012 7.00pm: LONDON - Islington , Saturday Matinee 3.00pm Hen and Chickens Theatre, 109 St Pauls Road, London, N12 2NA. Tickets £11.50 from Unrestricted View on 0207-704 2001
February: Ilkley Playhouse, Weston Road, Ilkley, LS29 8DW. 01943-609539. http://www.ilkleyplayhouse.co.uk/
January: Upstairs @The Carriageworks, Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 3AD. Tickets £10.00 / £8.00 concessions
Box Office: 0113 224 3801 or www.carriageworkstheatre.org.uk
(Pictured left: Jo's War, production photograph, courtesy Encore Drama)
2011
October 13:
Lecture, Dr. Alan Munton on Ronald Duncan: Poetry, Plays, Opera and Exploding Pigs: – a life in Devon, taking place at Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, N. Devon, EX39 2QQ. 1 pm.
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October: 6-9:
Exeter Poetry Festival, sponsored lecture.
September 3-4:
Conference - Literary Britten, Cambridge UK. Paper: "Modernity and Archaism in Ronald Duncan’s libretto for The Rape of Lucretia" by Dr. A. Munton.
September 3:
1968 University alumni encouraged by Duncan to write whilst a student at Exeter. Now David Axtell has written a book 'A Bird for All Seasons' combining poetry with his love for birds. MORE
August:
Wordquest's 'Map of Literary Devon' including the local area where Ronald Duncan wrote in North Devon.
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