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Deadline: Wednesday March 25, 2020 9PM EDT
The Rules:
- Plays should be limited to roughly ten minutes in length. We’ll live with eleven or twelve minutes if necessary, but 15+ minute plays will not be read.
- Only one entry per playwright.
- Please use either Samuel French formatting or something comparable. The specific details don’t really matter, but we do want something that results in about one page per minute.
- Scripts must be blind, i.e. no author-identifying information of any kind anywhere in the file.
- Files must be in pdf format.
- File name must be the exact title of the script, with spaces replaced by hyphens, followed by a hyphen and then the last two digits of your phone number (as a random factor). Example: If Jane Smith (with phone number xxx-xxx-xx84) submits a play entitled “The Chess Game”, the filename must be “The-Chess-Game-84.pdf” (capitalization in file names does not matter).
- Scripts should include a title page with the play’s title, a cast list with genders and any age requirements, and the setting.
- An brief explanation of relevance, i.e. how the script addresses the topic/challenge, must be included in the submission form (we are sorry to have to ask for this, but past experience has shown that many people submit scripts that don’t have anything to do with the prompt, resulting in a lot of wasted time for the judges).
- The play must be brand new and written specifically for this challenge. Existing or re-purposed plays are not permitted.
- The playwright retains all rights to the script, but grants ICRL the right to record a reading of the play and to post that recording online.
- The submission period ends on Wednesday at 9:00 pm (east coast U.S.A.)