Well, I’ve finally gotten around to sending Spaceboy off to various places in the hope someone will do something with it.

I’ve sent copies to the Loft Theatre Company (Lemington Spa) for their New Writing Competition and High Tide for their competiton for the 2010 Festival in Haleswork, Suffolk.

In addition I’ve a sent Spaceboy to the Bush Theatre as an example of my (new) writing. (I sent the Bush a copy of Kath and Kin nearly two years ago and if they remember me then hopefully they’ll see I have improved significantly since becoming part of the Nuffield Theatre Writers Group.)

It’ll be at least four months before I hear anything from these places, if at all, so I’m not holding my breath.

I’ve also sent Room 20 to the Off Cut Festival (Islington) – just made Monday’s deadline, lol – and we’ll see what happens with that too. The short-listed plays, to be announced 1st September, will be performed at the festival in Sept/Oct. Fingers crossed, then.

I feel my work is professional enough now to be sent out, though whether any of it will be considered professional enough to be produced is an entirely different matter.

We’ll see.

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Ha Ha!

Just had an email from Off Cut Festival while editing this very post!

Now, to put this into perspective, the deadline was 5pm on Monday.

And, in less than 48 hours, they have read every single submitted play, chosen a short-list of 24 and emailed everybody else!

“We have be (sic) overwhelmed by the number of submissions, the quality of which has made our selection process very difficult.”

Umm, yeah, well, call me cynical, but I reckon they must have pretty much decided on their 24 before the deadline.

Doesn’t give me much faith in writing competitions.