Open Call Period: 23 February (12pm) - 14 March 2024 (12pm)
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Centre 42 is thrilled to present our next edition of Headline Acts at Singapore International Festival of Arts 2024 (SIFA2024). In line with the festival theme, which explores various futures – known, unknowable, imminent, and already-here – we are inviting playwrights to dream up their own headlines from the future, and write pieces in response to them!
Headline Acts is a fun and informal reading series open to writers of all experience levels wishing to showcase plays or scenes. The only rule is, each work is a short (10-15 minutes) dramatic piece that responds to recent headlines.
We invite 3 writers to submit their ideas and responses through an Open Call process (see below for schedule and criteria). All selected writers will need to adhere to and submit their scripts for Arts Entertainment licencing as this edition of Headline Acts is intended as a public presentation.
Headline Acts: Tomorrow’s News will take place on the 3rd weekend of SIFA2024: 1 June after 10pm, Saturday.
Participants are expected to assemble their own creative team, rehearse and present their work independently. Centre 42 will provide a total fee of $2,000 per playwright, towards covering any associated costs, e.g. honoraria for readers, a director, etc. Centre 42 will also organise a script development period in which the playwright can receive dramaturgical support towards their draft script.
Keep things simple, if you can! This is intended as a pared-down reading event, with very little time on the day for rehearsal. We cannot support elaborate, tech-heavy set-ups.
23 February (12pm) - 14 March 2024 (12pm):
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5 April - 30 April 2024:
1 May - 16 May 2024:
17 May - 1 Jun 2024