48 Hour Play Generator
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost
Arthur Miller

Give six emerging playwrights two days to write a new play each, team them up with six established directors and a team of actors and what do you have? The giddy rush of theatre-making madness that is the 48 Hour Play Generator!

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The Early Stages
“One begins with two people on stage, and one of them had better say something pretty damn quick”
Moss Hart

A whaling station in Portland Bay in 1834. A strip club as a gateway to the past. Two strangers discarded by society and dumped in the desert.

See some of Melbourne’s exciting emerging playwrights as they present new works at various stages of development in an intimate series of performed readings.

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Speakers’ Corner
"I go down to Speakers' Corner, I'm thunderstruck; they got free speech, tourists, police in trucks. Two men say they're Jesus; one of them must be wrong. There's a protest singer, he's singing a protest song..."
Mark Knoppfler

Before they were written, performed and published, words were spoken.

Come stroll among the poets, spoken word artists, comedians, book readers and opinion givers in the Emerging Writers’ Festival first ever literary Speakers Corner.

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Wordstock
"A wicked wind whips up the hill / A handful of hopeful word..."
Nick Cave

Melbourne’s finest wordsmiths have been given one month to create a new work inspired by and drawn from the lyrics of Nick Cave’s vast repertoire for Wordstock, the Emerging Writers’ Festival night of words.

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