New works by Melbourne’s playwrights
crash tested by our own exceptional local talent.
Third Monday of the month.
Showtime 7.30pm sharp at Dante’s,
cnr Gertrude and Napier St, Fitzroy.
$10 entry
All money from the door goes to winning actors, directors and writers.
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The very successful Crash Test Drama is run on the third Monday of each month at Dante’s in Fitzroy, Melbourne. Crash Test helps to promote script development for new and established writers. It is important that playwrights can hear their works read by good actors so that the works can be improved. To encourage talented local actors to come along (so that writers get the benefit of hearing quality reads of their scripts), there is prize money. Yes real cold, hard cash!
Every month there are two sections.
1. Five ten-minute plays are read, script-in-hand
2. An open section where individuals or groups can present a five-minute piece of their own devising.
The audience and judges vote on the winning play in the first section. Only the judges decide the winner of the five-minute section. The writer and cast of the winning play as judged by the audience share 70% of the takings. Winners of the five-minute section receive the remaining 30% share of the door.
The winning play as decided by the judges goes onto the Bearing Your Arts Production shortlist. If the play chosen by the audience and the judges is the same play, that play is automatically guaranteed a production and a spot in Script Squirrel's Top 40.
For a mere $10 you can come along and enjoy the fun. Comedy, tragedy, romance, intrigue…
you never know what you will see.
Contact us for further information, or if you wish to submit a script to be considered for Crash Testing, send it to us via e-mail: crashtest@bearingyourarts.com
Check out the winners from past Crash Test nights
watch the video...
MAY 2008
CRASH HOT AWARDS
Each year Bearing Your Arts gives awards and prizes to writers and performers of the Crash Test season. These awards are to recognise celebrate the talent we see in each Crash Test season. Crash Hot Winners give consistantly good performances throughout the Crash Test Season.
***NEW INCENTIVE FOR PAST CRASH HOT AWARD WINNERS***
It pays to be part of our network! Crash Hot Awards are part of the 500 Club for Script Squirrel. This means that Crash Hot Awards have promised $500 to the best production of a Script Squirrel script featuring any of the past Crash Hot winners (writers or performers). So grab a script from Script Squirrel, grab some of this great talent, and put on your show and you can be in the running for this $500 prize. For more info check out our Script Squirrel page on this website.
2007
Best Female Actor: JD Scott
Best Male Actor: Ian Rooney
Best Comic Script: A Favour for the Boss- Bridgette Burton
Best Dramatic Script: The Painter-Jane Miller
Writer of the Year: Cerise de Gelder
The criteria for the coveted Writer of the Year Award is : for consistently producing scripts that score highly with readers, poll strongly with the audience voting and consistently win the judges choice award.
2008
Best Female Actor:
Nominations: Andrea McGannon, Charity Shaw, Milijana Cancar, Franscesca Waters, JD Scott
Winner: Charity Shaw
Prize: Associate Melbourne Writers' Theatre membership
Best Male Actor:
Nominations: Ian Rooney, Leon Durr, Carl J Sorheim, David Gannon, Peter Flaherty
Winner: David Gannon
Prize: Associate Melbourne Writers' Theatre membership
Best Comic Script: Ghostwriter- Cerise de Gelder
Best Dramatic Script: Between the Sky and the Sea-Alex Broun
Best New Talent: Carl J Sorheim
Writer of the Year:
Nominees: Alex Broun, Cerise de Gelder, Jane Miller
Winner: Cerise de Gelder
Script Development Award:
$500 towards production of scripts developed through Crash Test: Split 2 x $250
David Gannon – Breaking the Cycle (Fringe 08)
Carl J Sorheim – Survival of the Fittest (Dantes June) -
MWT Emerging Writers Award:
Clara Pagone and Fabian Lapham
Prize: Full Melbourne Writers' Theatre membership
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