Scirocco Drama Manitoba Highschool Playwriting Competition
Presented by Scirocco Drama and the Manitoba Association of Playwrights
Each year the Manitoba Association of Playwrights and Scirocco Drama invite high school students to submit plays for the Annual Highschool Playwriting Competition. The plays are about fifteen or twenty minutes, with a minimum of three characters. A panel of theatre professionals reads them and selects five.
About the Competition
The finalists work with a dramaturge to improve the scripts as necessary, directors are hired and actors are cast, the plays are rehearsed and then produced for two nights in early June at the Warehouse Theatre. Votes from the audience are taken each night to decide on the winners! (The votes are tallied and the winners announced on the second night of the two evenings presentation.)
The first prize in the playwriting competition is the Cora McKenzie Award, named after on the winner of the 2003 competition and donated by her family in her memory.
