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Rules – The Bill & Peggy Hunt Playwrights Festival 2017

Burien Actors Theatre is seeking submissions of new plays by Washington State playwrights for the 2017 Bill and Peggy Hunt Playwrights Festival.

Both one-act and full-length plays are sought.topsyevahpt

Winning scripts will be staged April 14 through May 7, 2017 as part of Burien Actors Theatre’s 2016-17 season. In addition to having their plays produced, winning playwrights will also receive monetary prizes.

The submission deadline for all scripts is Oct. 21, 2016. To qualify for the Festival, all submissions must follow Playwrights Submission Guidelines detailed below.

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Play Wrights Festival – all the basics

Four all-new plays by Washington playwrights
in 2015 BILL & PEGGY HUNT PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL

Great low price – $10 tickets to see two plays!

(April 22, 2015 – Burien, WA) – For about the price of a matinee movie theater ticket, you Web-art-fest-smallcan see two brand-new award-winning plays live in May during the Playwrights Festival at Burien Actors Theatre.

The 2015 Bill & Peggy Hunt Playwrights Festival offers four weekends of four new shows written by Washington State Playwrights from May 1 through May 24.

Tickets are just $10, and each ticket includes admission to two plays–a one-act followed by a full-length and a talk-back with the playwright.

From May 1-10, the one-act The Study Group is paired with the full-length The Skilled Use of Blunt Objects. The Study Group, written by Stephan Feldman, is a one-act comedy-drama in which a hare-brained prank involving a mouse and a desk leads to issues of sexual ethics. The Skilled Use of Blunt Objects, written by Thomas Pierce, is a full-length drama that explores just how far people will go to get elected.
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From May 15-24, the one-act Dr. Kritzinger’s 12 O’Clock is paired with the full-length Four Gone Conclusions: Some Brief Field Trips into the Absurd. Dr. Kritzinger’s 12 O’Clock is a one-act study in evil about the 1942 meeting in which Nazi and German officials set in motion the “Final Solution” for the Jews. Four Gone Conclusions: Some Brief Field Trips into the Absurd, written by Kevin Boze, is a full-length comedy that offers an absurdist look at life, the afterlife, whales, aliens and more.

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Can small theaters take chances?

BAT is currently producing the musical comedy “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.” I Love you-web artIt is great show with a great cast, crew and designers. It is drawing well deserved crowds, it has gotten good reviews and and hopefully it will continue to draw well. (ILYYPNC runs Friday and Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 2, through March 22. TICKETS.)

ILYYPNC touches cords in anyone who has been in, or is currently in, a relationship. A wonderful play, but not one that is produced all that often around Puget Sound.

To produce ILYYPNC is a bit of a risk, just because you do not see everyone doing it. But is not a new work, it was first produced in 1996.  Next up at BAT, in May, is the Bill and Peggy Hunt Playwrights Festival. BAT will be producing four never previously produced scripts over four weeks. A full-length and one-act for two weekends and then a different full-length and one-act for the next two weekends. Talk about taking a risk. Will people come see these shows?

If history is a predictor, even with BAT cutting its ticket prices, the crowds will be smaller for the playwrights festival than for just about any older moderately well known play. What’s a progressive theater to do?

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