Metamorphic Theatre Calls for Scripts for New Script to Stage Program

Halifax based theatre company, Metamorphic Theatre, is launching a new program called Script to Stage, a competition where writers can submit their first-draft stage plays for development. This competition is open to experienced and first-time playwrights. The deadline for script submissions is September 21 and there is no entry fee. Submissions can be sent to:

Metamorphic Theatre
c/o Michael McGlone
P.O. Box 31084
Halifax, NS B3K 5T9

“Metamorphic Theatre started the 2007 season with Creatures of the Moment, by Ryan Turner and Sarah Mian, which went through a similar process to Script to Stage,” said Samantha Madore, Metamorphic Theatre. “It was the first time Metamorphic produced an original play by two first-time playwrights. After seeing the success of that pilot project, we were eager to formalize the program and give other emerging playwrights the same opportunity.”

Through Script to Stage, scripts will be submitted anonymously to a selection committee and one script will be chosen. The selected script will then be developed through a public read-through in mid-November 2007, a series of feedback sessions and workshops with actors, culminating into a full stage production, produced by Metamorphic Theatre in March 2008.

In the meantime, the second play of Metamorphic’s season, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), will open on August 1 and run to August 11 at Chester Playhouse.

Metamorphic Theatre, which strives to translate the human experience onto the stage while promoting local works and talent, is comprised of Neptune Theatre Pre-Professional Theatre graduates Amanda Jonz and Samantha Madore and Queen’s University Music graduate Amy Reitsma.