Newtown’s New Theatre has announced the winner of The Silver Gull Play Award for 2025. The winner is Steven Vidler for his play THE VANYA VARIATIONS.
The Silver Gull Play Award is a competition open to NSW and ACT-based writers …
The New Theatre announced that there was a wonderful response to The Silver Gull Play Award competition this year, with over 50 plays submitted. Writers obviously were scribbling madly during the months of lockdown.
The judging panel read, assessed and …
There was a huge response to the Silver Gull Play Award this year, with the plays displaying a wide variety of subject matter and a high standard of writing.
The shortlist of five was particularly strong, with three other plays …
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