UBC Player's Club

The UBC Players’ Club will be holding their first Impromptu Playwriting Contest in January 2011. The contest is simple: you come in, sit down, we give you an envelope with a list of things you must include in your play and you write! Participants will have 60 minutes to write their masterpiece and then hand it in to the Players’ Club where it potentially can be awarded with a variety of prizes! You can even show up the day of and jump right into it—no experience necessary! The only catch is that you will be inthe middle of the SUB where UBC students will get to observe the playwriting process. Bring your will and wits maybe you’ll discover you were destined to be a playwright…

Rules
Participants will have 60 minutes to write a play. They will be given a pen, pad of paper and concealed lists of ideas that must be included in the play in some capacity (either mentioned in the dialogue or somehow play a role in the story). There will be no laptops, phones or electronic devices permitted, only their wits and the page. Once the 60 minutes is up, the writers will (anonymously) hand their pieces, complete or not, to be looked at by a panel of judges. The judges will decide the winners and runners up and announce the winners at an award ceremony.

Members: Free! Non-Members: JUST $2