Papatango New Writing Prize

Listen to the Papatango New Writing Prize winners in the Everyman street cafe

Papatango champion the next generation of brilliant playwrights, especially those who might otherwise lack pathways into theatre, through a range of grassroots opportunities – all free, open to anyone in the UK and Ireland, and anonymously assessed. Papatango’s motto is simple: all you need is a story.

Join us to listen to three new plays chosen from over 1,400 submitted from across the UK. 

- Some Of Us Exist In The Future by Nkenna Akunna  - 
- The Silence and The Noise by Tom Powell -
- Ghost Stories From An Old Country by Tajinder Singh Hayer -

By turns poignant, funny and captivating, these three plays represent the very best of new writing.

Drop-in anytime from 10am to 5pm Tue 2 Nov to Sat 6 Nov. Tickets are free and the plays can be accessed through a QR code on your smartphone or devise using our Wi-Fi, or through a tablet and headset which can be collected from the Street Café / Box Office. Copies of the scripts including Braille translations will be available.

Produced in partnership with English Touring Theatre

 

 

 

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Some Of Us Exist In The Future
by Nkenna Akunna
Chiamaka is new to all this. Fresh off the plane from the UK, she's new to Brooklyn and its extremes. She's new to queer dating. She’s new to being an immigrant. Most of all, she's new to the voices of the gods...

Utterly original, wryly funny and always gripping, Some Of Us Exist In The Future follows one woman’s journey to finding her place in a world that’s not all it seems.

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Ghost Stories From An Old Country
by Tajinder Singh Hayer
Dalvir has always told a good ghost story, properly unsettling, dark tales to send a chill right through his younger brother Amar. But now Dalvir’s almost a ghost himself, cloistered and secretive. Amar desperately wants to reconnect with the only family he has left, but can he unravel Dalvir’s stories to find a way back to his brother?
Threaded through with captivating fables, Ghost Stories From An Old Country is a riveting and poignant exploration of the ties that bind us.

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The Silence and The Noise
by Tom Powell
Every teenager knows what it’s like to be stuck between things: childhood and maturity, innocence and experience, hope for the future and uncertainty about what that will be. But Daize is torn between even greater challenges: her love for her vulnerable mother and her dangerous friendship with Ant. An outsider with knockout trainers, Ant has just appeared on her doorstep, bringing with him a whole world of trouble.
The Silence and The Noise beautifully captures the story of two young people on the edge.