2026 One Act Play Festival Entry Form

• Entries open Wednesday 8 October 2025 noon
• The entry into the festival is free
• Entries close Wednesday 13 November 2025 11pm
• 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 script entries must be written in one One Act Play format.
• Plays must be around 10 minutes in length and no longer than 12 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.
• The submitted script must not have been published or publicly available for purchase or performance prior to submission.
• The name of playwright and or any identifying marks must not appear anywhere on the script to ensure anonymous adjudication.
• Plays to include uplifting themes, for example - hope, joy, escapism.
• 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 Friday 27 March 2026 and perform the play on Saturday 28 March 2026.
• All successful plays and monologues must be able to be performed (cast and crew) on Saturday 28 March 2026.

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One Act Play Festival Terms and Conditions