In the early days of lockdown in March, Chichester Festival Theatre initiated the ‘Five Day Play’ challenge: writers of all ages were invited to submit an original play written in just five days, the only rules being that it had to match a short brief (for example, ‘a play with two characters, one of whom has a secret to tell the other’) and could not exceed 10 pages. Over ten weeks, 300 entries were received from as far away as North America.
Now, a group of professional actors, all of whom have appeared at Chichester in recent years, have recorded four of the winning entries as audio plays, co-directed by Dale Rooks and Hannah Hogg from CFT’s Learning, Education and Participation team.
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