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A Grinning Match & The Lover's Maze
By Kate Webster

​Our latest trip to the Saffron Walden Maze Festival went a-maze-ingly with our 2 specially commissioned plays, each written to be performed either on an ancient turf maze or within a Victorian hedge maze. The plays were written by the brilliant Kate Webster, directed by our Tom Latter and were performed by a lovely bunch of actors, Lindsey Crow, Katherine Davenport, Michael Lyle & Philip Nightingale.

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Script Reading Service...

We are now offering a script reading service. The service includes reading your play and giving you feedback either in writing or in person, depending on the service you choose. The feedback can be general, covering all main play elements such as structure, character, dialogue, theme, or it can be tailored to your specific needs, such as advice on the ending or a particular scene.

Our main aim as a company is to help, champion and develop new and emerging writers, so we have made our prices competitive and all money generated by this service will go straight back into Sheer Drop’s work developing and producing new plays.

Scripts will be read by Tom Latter, whose experience includes developing and directing new full length plays for Sheer Drop, and dramaturgy, play development, directing, curating and producing new writing projects for Theatre503, as Literary Coordinator.

You will receive a response with notes within 4 weeks. If you are working towards a deadline (such as submitting for a playwriting award or scheme) and time is short, do make that clear and we will do our best to get back to you sooner.

Our Services:

Full script read with written feedback:

Scripts up to 80 pages - £30

Scripts 80-120 pages - £40

Scripts over 120 pages - £50

Full script read with feedback in person (min 1 hour meeting):

Add £50 to the above fee.

Send us your Script:

Please send your script to sheerdroptheatre@gmail.com with the subject line SCRIPTREADING SERVICE along with the following details:

- a brief history of the play and yourself as a writer – is this your first or twentieth play, which draft is this etc

- what feedback you would like – general or more specific? Tell us what you would like to get out of the service.

- how you would like to receive our feedback, written or in person.

If you have any questions about the script reading service, please email us at the same address.

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What's In Development...

Superheroes by Stella Willow...

Rehearsed Reading 13th March 2015

Thank you so much to everyone who came along to our Rehearsed Reading of Superheroes on Friday 13th March at the Tristan Bates Theatre. We had a great turn out and received some fantastic feedback.

The audience included representatives from organisations such as Families Need Fathers and New Fathers 4 Justice, lawyers, mediators and people who have been affected personally by the family justice system, as well as some of our fantastic supporters. 

 ‘This admirable play is simultaneously highly entertaining and very serious.  What it has to say, and the way it says it, are spot on.  It makes for a very moving and funny show. ’ Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernieres is a patron of Families Need Fathers and we were delighted that he was able to attend our rehearsed reading. We were also lucky enough to have Matt O'Connor (pictured above with the cast) from Fathers 4 Justice attend one of our rehearsals and share his story with us.

Stella is now busy writing the next draft of Superheroes, incorporating all of the feedback and advice that we received from the readings. We are extremely excited about where this brilliant play will go next...

The production has it's own website, so do check it out: www.superheroestheplay.co.uk 

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