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THE WOMEN'S PLAY PRESS
The Play Press grew out of The Women's Play Press collective, launched in 1994 by Lorae Parry, Viv Plumb, Fiona Samuel, Cathy Downes and Jean Betts with support from Circa Theatre's Susan Wilson.
WPP was formed initially to publish plays of ours performed in 1993 in a festival we organised to celebrate the centenary of women's suffrage in NZ. Since then, several of our plays have had excellent sales, productions nationally and abroad, and inclusion in school and university curricula. We still publish plays under this name; however in 2001, feeling that there were still too many good scripts languishing unpublished that needed to be made available, I established The Play Press as well.
THE SUSAN SMITH BLACKBURN PRIZE
Since 2007 The Women’s Play Press has chosen a woman’s play from the Adam New Zealand Play Award (formerly the Playmarket New Play Award) entries, to submit to this prestigious international competition:-
2011 Sliderhands by Georgina Titheridge
2010 The Liar's Bible by Fiona Samuel
2009 The 53rd Victim by Pip Hall
2008 Fucking Parasites by Ninna Tersman
2007 Julia’s Daughter by Jennifer Compton
Available October 2010 -
BLOOMSBURY WOMEN & THE WILD COLONIAL GIRL by Lorae Parry
Published by The Women’s Play Press (in association with The Play Press)
More information here.
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