Thank you for your interest in New Perspectives’
Long Play competition
About New Perspectives
New Perspectives exists to create an inspiring, popular and critically-acclaimed programme of
touring theatre that touches the lives of individuals and communities in the rural East Midlands,
and reaches out to new audiences through regular national and occasional international
touring.
As the largest single provider of touring theatre to the East Midlands' network of rural
community venues, the company produces up to 4 new productions per year, in addition to
running a range of participatory projects, and managing Northants Touring Arts, the rural
touring scheme for Northamptonshire.
Recent successes include: Playland (regional premiere); Watching the Living
(Commission/world premiere); The Boss of it All (Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Soho Theatre);
The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock in a co-production with Leicester Curve(2013 UK tour, Brits
of Braodway, New York, 2014); The Hired Man (2007/08 UK tour, Brits off Broadway, 2008); Lark
Rise to Candleford (2011 UK tour); Those Magnificent Men (UK tour 2010 and again in 2011,
and a run a Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011); How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup
(2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and UK tour); The Honey Man (Derby LIVE and 2012 UK tour);
The Butterfly Lion (Curve Leicester and Derby Theatre 2012); A Christmas Carol (UK rural tour
2012) Farm Boy (2010 Edinburgh Fringe and UK tour, Brits off Broadway 2011 and UK tour 201213 and Entertaining Angels (UK tour 2013).
To find out more about the company’s history and shows, please visit
www.newperspectives.co.uk.
About Long Play
A competition for writers who are from or based in the East Midlands
If you have a distinctive voice, an unexpected story and or an adaptation that will make us
look at theatre afresh this open full-length playwriting competition is for you. We are interested
in receiving both original ideas and adaptations*
The winning playwright will receive:
 Up to 6 months dramaturgical support from New Perspectives
 A public reading of the play
 £1,500 on decision to produce the play
Entries will be read anonymously and judged by a panel comprising of New Perspectives staff
and an industry professional.
To enter please refer to the guidelines below, download an application form from our website
www.newperspectives.co.uk and email to [email protected] with LP Competition in
the subject field or post to LP Competition, New Perspectives, Park Lane Business Centre, Park
Lane, Basford, Nottingham NG6 0DW by Friday 8 January 2015 at 5pm. Winners will be
announced in early March 2015.
Guidelines
We will accept submissions of full-length plays from writers from or based in the East Midlands;
which for practical reasons should be written for cast sizes of 4 or less. All submissions, whether
new writing or adaptations, should be submitted as full lengths plays in a standard professional
format. Writers of all levels of experience are welcome to submit however we anticipate it is
unlikely that this is an appropriate opportunity for writers at very early stages of their
development.
Adaptations of books or films will be considered providing rights are achievable. We will only
accept one submission per writer; excerpts, unfinished works or outlines will not be accepted.
Eligibility and competition rules
 Scripts must be full length plays (approximately 120 minutes maximum length) for
performance by a maximum of four actors (though of course this does not limit the
number of characters).
 The deadline for submissions is 5pm on 9 January 2015.
 LONG PLAY is open to anyone from the East Midlands and/ or currently living, working or
studying in the region (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Lincolnshire,
Northamptonshire).
 Entries must be entirely the work of the entrant and must not previously have been
published (either in print or online) or have won or been placed within any other
competition.
 Entries submitted posthumously will not be eligible.
 Entries from New Perspectives staff members and their families will not be eligible.
 A maximum of one entry per entrant is permitted.
 Entries must be in English, typed, and single-sided.
 Entries submitted as hard copies must be printed single sided, with pages numbered
and securely fastened.
 Entries must show NO name, address, or identifying marks other than the title.
 Entries must be accompanied by a completed Long Play Application form
 Long Play entries will be assessed by a panel of judges, chaired by the Artistic Director
of New Perspectives Theatre Company.
 The decision of the judges is final and no individual correspondence can be entered
into.
 Full results will be announced on the New Perspectives website in March 2016.
 Worldwide copyright of each entry remains with the author, but New Perspectives
Theatre Company will have the unrestricted right to publish, record, broadcast and
perform the winning script for 2 years from date winner is notified.
Entry implies acceptance of all the rules. Failure to comply will result in disqualification.
Submitting your entry
You can either submit your entry by email:
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Send your script and entry form to [email protected], with ‘LONG PLAY’ in
the subject of your email.
We will acknowledge receipt of your entry by email
Or by post:
 Send your script and application form to LONG PLAY, New Perspectives Theatre
Company, Park Lane Business Centre, Park Lane, Basford, Nottingham, NG6 0DW.
 Please ensure that you use the correct postage when sending us your entry.
 If you require acknowledgement of receipt of your entry, please enclose a stamped
address postcard marked ‘ACKNOWLEDGEMENT’.
 Writers whose scripts are shortlisted will be required to provide an electronic version.
If you have any general or queries relating to your Long Play Entry, please contact Sally Anne
Tye, Executive Director: [email protected] or 0115 973 9121. (This is to ensure the
judging panel are able to judge the scripts anonymously).