Garrick Showcase
This is an opportunity for local writers and actors to come together for an evening of entertainment, four times a year, to present new writing on a given theme. For each evening, the theme itself will be announced about six weeks before the event, giving writers and would-be writers about a month to write submit their work to the Garrick Showcase email address
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The first Garrick Showcase will be held on Wednesday 24th September 2025 and the theme will be ‘Suspect’, to fit in with our next production at the theatre, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.
You can use any of the meanings of ‘suspect’ as inspiration: a physical suspect in police custody or wanted by the police, an expression of suspicion of someone else, ‘suspect’ in the
sense of something having gone off and unfit for consumption or simply unsafe (suspect wiring, for instance).
You have the choice of writing a monologue that you could perform yourself, or a piece of dialogue using no more than three characters. (Because of limited space on the bar stage, we
advise a maximum of three actors performing on the stage.)
You don’t have to be an established writer to contribute to the Garrick Showcase. Submissions must be the original work of the sender. No copyrighted material is acceptable.
All submissions must be around five minutes’ duration in performance. Read your work aloud and time it.
Please submit your work no later than midnight on Friday, 29th August. We willnotify you whether your piece has been accepted by Friday 5th September
What happens if your work is selected for performance?
1. These are dramatic performances, not readings, so we expect you and any other performers
you involve to have prepared and learned the script before the performance date. If you have
written something that involves two or three performers, we would normally expect you to
supply your own actors. If you have difficulty with that, then you may email the Garrick
Showcase and we will try to help put you in touch with someone, but there is a very active
amateur theatre circuit in this part of Greater Manchester and we cannot guarantee to find
someone available on that night.
2. They will be open box productions: there will be chairs on the stage and perhaps a table,
but no other furniture. If you need props, you bring them yourself. (No firearms, please,
replica or otherwise!)
3. Lighting will be a simple matter of Lights Up at the beginning and Lights Down at the end.
For this first presentation in September, we cannot offer the facility to play music or sound
effects.**
Also check out other Arts events in Whitefield, Theatre events in Whitefield, Performances in Whitefield.
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