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Deadline: August 25, 2025
Deadline: August 25, 2025
Victoria Australia
Please send your entries to Corey by 25 August:
Corey – coozy10@hotmail.com
Portland CEMA Theatre Group are starting preparations for the 2025 Dramatic Short Cuts, our annual season of short plays, which is scheduled for November. The first step is to collect some plays to assess.
We would like to invite any playwrights and/or creative writers to please submit scripts.
If you submit a play, you do so with the understanding that if your play is selected, then it will be directed by someone other than you.
We thoroughly enjoy reading all submitted plays and feel most grateful to all who put their scripts forward. Typically, about seven plays are chosen for performance and it is not uncommon to receive twenty or more submissions. Please do not be disheartened if your play is not amoungst those chosen for performance.
Corey – coozy10@hotmail.com
Portland CEMA Theatre Group are starting preparations for the 2025 Dramatic Short Cuts, our annual season of short plays, which is scheduled for November. The first step is to collect some plays to assess.
We would like to invite any playwrights and/or creative writers to please submit scripts.
There are some guidelines for any plays you submit:
- Scripts must be no shorter than 8 minutes long
- Scripts must be no longer than 15 minutes long
- Scripts must be no shorter than 8 minutes long
- Scripts must be no longer than 15 minutes long
NOTE - To accurately assess running time, it’s a good idea to read through your play aloud, also allowing time for any action that takes place, as if you were acting it out.
- One act plays only. There are to be no set changes within the middle of the performance, except where these are quite minor or subtle, eg. lighting of action occurring in different parts of the stage, or any relocation of very minimal props
- Only ONE script per writer will be accepted.
- Please ensure you provide a thorough synopsis of your play along with your script submission as the coordinators will use this information to present your play to Theatre Group members for reading and assessment.
- Please send us your script in Word format.
We choose the plays for our season using a ‘blind read,’ which means that we don’t allow voting members to know who wrote the submitted scripts. This is why we ask for a Word version, so we can easily remove your name from the script for the reading.
If you submit a play, you do so with the understanding that if your play is selected, then it will be directed by someone other than you.
We thoroughly enjoy reading all submitted plays and feel most grateful to all who put their scripts forward. Typically, about seven plays are chosen for performance and it is not uncommon to receive twenty or more submissions. Please do not be disheartened if your play is not amoungst those chosen for performance.