2025 One Act Play Festival Entry Form

• Entries open Tuesday 8 October 2024
• The entry into the festival is free
• Entries close Wednesday 13 November 2024
• Extension of the closing date or acceptance of late entries for the Festival will be only at the Event sponsors discretion.

• All play or monologue entries must be complete, ready to perform, One Act Plays.
• Plays must be at least 10 minutes in length and no longer than 20 minutes.
• Monologues should be between five minutes and 10 minutes.
• The play or monologue script must be a new, original work of the playwright and not adaptations of other plays.
• Script must not have been published or publicly available for purchase or performance prior to submission.
• The playwrights name or any identifying marks must not appear anywhere on the manuscript to ensure anonymous adjudication.
• While there are no restrictions on subject matter, theme or style, plays must be suitable for performance in a community theatre to our local Lake Macquarie audience. Please carefully consider your use of profanity, slander, swearing or any language/comments that could be deemed inappropriate, offensive or defamatory within your script. Council may require revisions (in consultation) to ensure the performance is suitable for the audience.
• The play or monologue performance needs to be suitable for the venue and work within the limitations set out below for sound, lighting, sets and props.
• All plays or monologue entries must have sourced actors (or the ability to source actors) with the availability to rehearse prior to, attend the dress rehearsal on 4 April 2025 and perform the play on 5 April 2025.
• All successful plays and monologues must be able to be performed (cast and crew) on Saturday 5 April 2025.

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One Act Play Festival Terms and Conditions