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Sancta 28th Annual Play Festival 2008 Sancta is pleased to announce the details of it's 28th Annual One-Act Play Festival to be held in April 2008, with an exciting mentorship and educational programme attached to it. Sancta is pleased to announce that it’s 28th Annual One-Act Play Festival – with the THEME “ MAKING THEATRE OUT OF NOTHING” will be held at The Actors Centre, The Johannesburg Civic Theatre, from 7-19th April 2008. We are very grateful to The National Arts Council that granted us funding this year, a large portion of which must be spent on mentoring and educational courses, to supplement the productions prior to their final performance. We are proud and honoured to advise that highly professional staff from The Actors Centre, under the guidance of the centre’s Artistic Director, Steven Feinstein, will conduct the mentoring and educational courses amounting to 50 hours per group over a three-month period. This “Package Deal” will be available to all the groups that are finally accepted for the festival. However, the educational courses will be available free to all Sancta and Actors Centre members. In order to be eligible to apply to enter the festival, we require by 10th January: 1. An entry fee of R300, as well as the Sancta Annual Membership fee of R100 2. A script: • Be it a pre-published script, • A brand new South African completed script • A “workshopped / work in progress” script, in which case we need a 5 page synopsis of the play. • All scripts to be typed. 3. A completed entry form (available from Sancta) All the entries will be read and studied by a panel of experts as to their suitability to finally reach production stage, under the guidance of a mentor and with all the education courses to be provided, and the successful candidates will be advised by 25th January if their play was accepted into the competition. The number of entries to qualify for this “Package Deal” will be limited this year and only available to entries from within a 200 Km radius of Johannesburg. Mentors will then be appointed to each group and the courses will commence in February. The Basic rules of a Sancta Festival are: • The play must run between 30-50 minutes; • Have at least three speaking parts; • Be in English or Afrikaans (though the inclusion of other languages for dramatic/comedic effect is possible); • Have a DISTINCT story line/theme running throughout the play, which can be supplemented by music and dance- but this cannot exceed more than 20 percent of the production content. The festival will as usual be adjudicated by professional Adjudicators and also qualifies for the Community Theatre Award in the 6th Naledi Awards for 2008, kindly sponsored by Computicket Pty Ltd. We gratefully acknowledge our other sponsors- The Arts and Culture Trust and Dalro – The Samro Endowment for the Performing Arts. We shall also be running our 6th New SA One-Act Script Writing Competition and Poster Competition in conjunction with the festival, which carry cash prizes. We are holding a preliminary introductory workshop on 6th December at The Actors Centre from 5:30- 8pm to explain in full how this 28th Festival and the “Package Deal” will be conducted. Anyone is welcome to attend and if you have a script in mind, please bring it with you. RSVP to Noel Mc Donald For any details on the Festival or any of the competitions, please contact Noel Mc Donald on 011 475 3584 / 083 309 4315. |