BBC World Service and the British Council, in
partnership with Commonwealth Writers, have announced the winners of the
23rd International Playwriting Competition.
Ugandan
playwright Angella Emurwon has been awarded first prize in the English
as a Second Language category for her play Sunflowers Behind A Dirty
Fence. Representing Jamaica, Janet Morrison triumphed with her play The
Fisherman, which won first prize for English as a First Language.
The
competition, now in its 23rd year, invites anyone resident outside
Britain, to write a 53-minute radio drama for up to six characters. This
year’s competition attracted more than 1,000 entries from the widest
range of countries ever received. These included plays about Gorgons in
Australia, art forgery in India, men stuck in holes in Greece and
cockroach races in Qatar. The breadth of imagination was limitless.
As
part of their prize the two winners will visit the UK later this month,
where they will attend a prize-giving ceremony and witness their
winning plays being recorded. The plays will be broadcast on BBC World
Service in March and April 2013.
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(Source : BBC Media Centre)
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