Send your 10-minute play to NYCPlaywrights.
One play is selected from the submissions for that month and NYCPlaywrights videorecords a reading of the play. The play will be posted on the NYCPlaywrights web site.
For more details about the play of the month project go to this page on the site: play of the month or click the tab at the top of this web page.
Since the NYCPlaywrights web site is viewed by 2,000+ unique visitors per month, there is the potential for many more people to see a reading-performance of the play than at a typical 10-minute play festival.
10-Minute Play of the Month: MAY 2011
Theme: If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring?
Pilgrims.
The May 2011 Play of the Month theme is pilgrims.
What are pilgrims? In addition to the ones who celebrated the first Thanksgiving in what would later be the USA?
Consider this excerpt from the Wikipedia article on pilgrims:
Modern era
Many religions still espouse pilgrimage as a spiritual activity. The great Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca (now in Saudi Arabia), is obligatory for every able Muslim. Other Islamic devotional pilgrimages, particularly to the tombs of Shia Imams or Sufi saints, are also popular across the Islamic world.
A modern phenomenon is the cultural pilgrimage, which while also about personal journey, involves a secular response. Destinations for such pilgrims can include historic sites of national or cultural importance, and can be defined as places "of cultural significance: an artist's home, the location of a pivotal event or an iconic destination."
An example might be a baseball fan visiting Cooperstown, New York. Destinations for cultural pilgrims include examples such as Auschwitz concentration camp, Gettysburg Battlefield, the Ernest Hemingway House or even Disneyland.
Cultural pilgrims may also travel on religious pilgrimage routes, such as the Way of St. James, with the perspective of making it a historic or architectural tour rather than a religious experience.
Secular pilgrims also exist under communist regimes. These devotional but strictly secular pilgrims visited locations such as the Mausoleum of Lenin or Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, or the Birthplace of Karl Marx. Such visits were sometimes state-sponsored.]
Deadline: Sunday, May 1, 2011, 11:59 PM
1. Send only one ten minute play per author to info@nycplaywrights.org.
2. The script submission should be sent by email, with the play itself as a file attached to the email. File format should be in either Microsoft Word (.doc) or .pdf.
3. The script should be in standard playscript format. If you are not sure what that is, see this page on the NYCPlaywrights web site:
http://nycp.blogspot.com/p/playscript-formatting-template.html
Plays that are not in standard format will be rejected immediately.
4. Make sure you have your name and your email address on the title page of the script.
5. Plays can be from anybody, anywhere in the world, but must be primarily in English (a few non-English phrases are acceptable, but the phrases must include English translations in production notes or stage directions.)
6. There is no fee for submission - and no payment given for the plays selected. Do not send a submission if you are expecting monetary compensation.
7. The NYCPlaywrights selection decision is final and NYCPlaywrights reserves the right to select no plays from those submitted.
8. The selected play will be videotaped as a reading during an NYCPlaywrights meeting and posted shortly after, during the month of May.
9. The playwright will be asked to review the video recording before it is made public.
10. The video recording of the play reading will be posted to the NYCPlaywrights YouTube account and from there embedded into the NYCPlaywrights blog. The embedded section may be an excerpt of the play reading rather than the entire reading.
Any questions email Nancy at info@nycplaywrights.org