5min Festival

What can be achieved in just 300 seconds ?

 

 

We live in an age when no-one has time. Average viewers spend 3 and 7 minutes on an internet video. Advertisers get whole stories into 30 seconds. Reduced Shakespeare squeezed the bard’s works into 70 minutes. Hamlet thought brevity the soul of wit, the Japanese that haiku was the highest form of art. Can you join the masters and create a piece of theatre – comical, tragical, dialogue-based, musical, physical to bewitch an audience and make five minutes memorable? It’s the ultimate challenge, and if you dare try there’s a world of possibilities. We want you in the Five Minute Festival.

The Festival’s programme incorporates an exciting variety of genres and themes, and will give us a valuable insight into the next generation of playwrights and directors.

 

The 4th Five Minute Festival winners are:

 

Still Waters, written by Christopher Owen, directed by Charlie Swallow

Give us this day our daily bread, written and directed by Raymi Renee

Buzzed, written and directed by Anna Forsyt

 

 

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