Winners announced for Capsule Theatre Festival

Details of the four winning plays have been revealed by the judges of the Capsule Theatre Festival today.

The chosen plays will be produced, rehearsed and staged in a black box theatre space and will be filmed in 3D technology by LIVR in early 2021. The productions will also be available to purchase, with the money going to the artists involved.

The winners are Polly Churchill for Junction (a love letter to the stories and lives of the people using and working at a major transport junction in London), Philip Meeks for Fireflies In Jarrow (a witty and touching story of a man caring for his mother who is suffering from dementia), Ron Fernee for I Don’t Dance (the story of an unlikely friendship that develops between an older housebound man and a young would-be cyclist) and Charles Edward Pipe for FUPD (a wonderfully silly pastiche of the detective genre providing a much needed laugh and pure entertainment).

Creator of the Capsule Theatre Festival Sarah Berger said: “We received a total of 150 plays, the standard of which was very high, and it was a very difficult decision to narrow down the plays to just four to move into production. We chose plays that involved as broad a range of issues, backgrounds and ethnicity that would be realisable under current restrictions using the most inventive mixture of theatrical staging together with the 3D filming.

“We have also offered extensive feedback and mentoring for many of the other writers, helping them to find homes, and producers for future productions. We decided not to include any monologues in the finalists as we wanted to offer as many freelancers as possible the opportunity to work, but we have decided to produce a season of monologues alongside the main Capsule season, this mini season will be called Shield.

“We think that we will be involving a minimum of 20 freelancers in the initial project with  a view to raising money to include more workers in the coming months.”

For more information on the festival, please click here.

Congratulations to all involved!