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Off the Shelf » and Into the Fringe!
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After the success of Off The Shelf in 2009, Queen Street Studio presents the third Off the Shelf – a residency for writers and directors interested in developing a script, potentially to be performed at the inaugural The Sydney Fringe.
Off the Shelf is an opportunity for writers and directors to hothouse a script that is in the early stages of development. Off the Shelf is supported by the City of Sydney and aims to focus the skills of theatre practitioners on a previously unproduced script of their choice, whilst strengthening relationships between emerging writers and directors.
This is a unique opportunity to explore a script which may have been “shelved”, or may be in a seed stage and needs a little bit of time, space and feedback to get to the next phase. Writers and directors were asked to submit an expression of interest and a script. It was recommended that writers do not direct their own work, nor plan to perform in the showcase of the script: a cast was needed to be confirmed upon selection.
Contact Off the Shelf co-ordinator Augusta Supple via augusta@queenstreetstudio.com.
Expressions of interest CLOSED (29 March 2010)
Guidelines for Off the Shelf
We are looking for teams (writers and directors) who:
- Have an unproduced script that needs some development;
- Are interested in working together in a nurturing and collaborative environment to produce a 15 minute presentation
of a scene from the script which will be performed in a studio showing at FraserStudios – Studio 14, managed by Queen Street Studio;
- Are interested in building their network, skills and script in a non-competitive, supportive environment;
- Can write to specifications whilst being mindful of the presentation challenges outlined below;
- All teams need to submit a proposal with a writer and a director attached being mindful that writers are not to perform nor direct their own work;
- Would like to test an idea or concept in front of an invited audience who will provide them with feedback;
- Are available to attend all meetings, rehearsals and the showcase which is on the 28th & 30th May 2010.
QUEEN STREET STUDIO WILL PROVIDE:
- 15 hours of rehearsal space (starting 19th April – primarily on weekends);
- Dramaturgy;
- Opportunity to show your work in front of industry professionals and an invited audience;
- Open forum and written feedback from Industry guests;
- Simple sound equipment;
- A photographer for promotional photos and archival materials;
- Networking opportunities;
- Publicity and promotional support including a series of meet-and-greets.
APPLICANTS WILL:
- Provide a first draft with your application;
- Be Available for an interview if requested the week starting 5th April;
- Be available to attend meetings and scheduled rehearsals;
- Be willing to re-draft and refine your script over a four-week period;
- Stage a showing of the work: whether it be a reading, a moved reading, or a performance, within the technical and practical limitations of the project.
For more information contact Augusta Supple:
E-mail: augusta@queenstreetstudio.com or mobile: 0434 058 262
Off the Shelf participants so far »
OTS 1 | OTS 2 | OTS 3
| Off the Shelf#1 May 2009 |
| Harpoon |
In an underwater world, things are not always what they seem. |
Writer: Bridget Price
Director: Mark Pritchard |
| Night maybe, or a road maybe |
A brother and a sister on the road at night make a choice to go back or to continue into the night. |
Writer: Kit Brookman
Director: Amy Satchell |
| Gravity Waves |
Ian Iva’s ready to help Leon Surat get in shape and get over his couch and his ex girlfriend- using a unique technique, Iva infiltrates the lives of those he helps and uses gravity waves as his tool. |
Writer: Will Snow
Director: Jonathan Wald |
| Boxing Day |
Boxing Day, is set in the tiny seaside village of Tair Lair and is a mysterious, playful and intriguing family story. While ten-year-old Freya plots to keep her dad home from the oil rig a little longer, Nana Ditti is attached to her old transistor radio – dancing, and dreaming of Johnnie Ray. The plot twists and turns upside down on a fateful Boxing Day afternoon, when Age (Freya’s father) shoots a seagull and it falls from the sky like a rock. But instead of a dead bird, the pair discover a corpse washed up on the stony beach. |
Writer: Phil Spencer
Director: Scarlet McGlynn |
| Retale |
The Store Manager is here to induct you into the store policy of clever selling- rocket into your dreams- the world of retail is not for the faint hearted and soon enough you’ll learn that retailers and astronauts have a lot in common. |
Writer: Patrick Lenton
Director: Anne-Maree Magi |
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| Off the Shelf #2 November 2009 |
| Combat Fatigue |
Combat Fatigue is a dark incantation, a letter that shouldn’t be read, a blood sacrifice. A golden couple in a toxic city on Valentine’s Day. A husband, an artist, a soldier and a murderer with a poet’s heart battle it out for possession of a woman, Pippa’s soul. |
Writer: Alison Rooke
Director: Ian Zammit |
| Wretched Excess |
When emotionally reclusive, yet highly successful young artist, Ash, falls for the vivacious free-spirited Lenka, a passionate, yet destructive relationship ensues - one that could ultimately prove the catalyst for a devastating act. |
Writer: Stephen Graham
Director: David Adlam |
| Of the Causes of Wonderful Things |
Esther Drury is dealing with the disappearance of 5 children who have gone missing under her care. Her search for them leads to the uncovering of darkness, secrets and visions. The title is taken from a series of books published in the 1600’s about the causes of natural things occurring and contains one of the earliest descriptions of projection with a magic lantern. |
Writer: Talya Rubin
Director: Nick James |
| Zetland |
In the family home they grew up in, two estranged brothers try to have a last meal before they are separated forever. |
Writer: Jasper Marlow
Director: Mark Pritchard |
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| Off the Shelf and Into the Fringe #3
May 2010 |
| Late Night Infomercials |
Louise has been happily working at Infomercials since its inception but when a second sales presenter, David, is hired, the destructive nature of the products she’s selling is revealed to her and she is forced to choose between the surface with which she’s become accustomed and the darker reality that exists underneath. |
Writer: Brooke Robinson
Director: Lisa Eisman |
| Sexy Tales of Paleontology |
Sexy Tales of Paleontology has everything you could possibly want in life: science, evil corporations and a lumberjack. When an innocent group of scientists are taken over by an unselfconsciously evil corporation, a clash of ethics and robots ensue. Expect hysterical geologists in pit fights with Paleontologists, flamboyant glam-pop mercenaries breaking out in song and the world’s worst narrator. |
Writer: Patrick Lenton
Director: Anne-Maree Magi |
| The Hideous Demise of Detective Slate |
‘Temptation Keeps A Pistol In Her Panties’ The Hideous Demise of Detective Jericho Slate is a piece of film noir parody theatre; Imagine a 1940’s hardboiled detective radio serial traveled through time, but on the way it got mixed up with that nuclear waste that made the ninja turtles and grew legs and an incredible amount of convoluted similes and threw itself on the stage.When Doctor Blacks winds up corpsed in his laboratory on lighting hill, Miss Scarlett looks set to take the fall. She calls on lone wolf detective Jericho Slate to clear her name, but the only thing hotter than those legs is the secret she’s hiding.Could this case lead to the detective’s hideous demise? You betchya. |
Writer: Alli Sebastian-Wolf
Director: Jane Grimley |
| Peace at Last |
With her mother gone and father nearing the end, Sarah is ready to bury the past. But her brother Paul returns determined to reignite the fire. |
Writer: John AD Fraser
Director: Lizzie Doyle |
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