Arts Council England Funds New Play By Rose Collis
- LocationSouth East
- Type
- Salary
- Artformlibraries, literature, theatre
- ContactRose Collis rose.collis@outlook.com
Description
Writer and performer Rose Collis has been awarded research and development funding from Grants for the Arts, supported by Arts Council England, to create a two-act stage play based on her book 'Colonel Barker’s Monstrous Regiment', about the extraordinary life of Valerie Arkell-Smith aka Colonel Victor Barker.
Virago published 'Colonel Barker’s Monstrous Regiment' in 2001, to enormous critical acclaim.
The funding coincides with the start of a two-week residency at the Gladstone Library awarded to Rose Collis after she was shortlisted for its prestigious Writer-in-Residence 2016 programme. The residency commences on October 29, with her event 'Rose Collis and Her Trouser-Wearing Characters' taking place during the Library’s popular Hearth Festival.
'The Trials of Colonel Barker' will be developed to rehearsed reading stage, in time for the second (Brighton And) Hove Grown Festival of new writing taking place March 24 to April 2 2017.
Prior to the rehearsed readings, Rose Collis will present two tie-in public engagement events: a free ‘Lunchtime Lecture’ at Worthing Library on February 28 and a talk at Jubilee Library, Brighton (date tbc).
Participating artists for 'The Trials of Colonel Barker' will include Keith Drinkel, Philippa Hammond and Guy Wah.
Rose Collis said, ‘I am enormously grateful to Arts Council England for supporting another of my projects, and also to the Gladstone Library for the two-week residency which will be spring-boarding this exciting new project. Writing this play will provide an exciting and vital challenge in my development as a stage writer, breaking new ground to create my first two-act play, and my first for a cast of more than two performers.’
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Arts Council England Funds New Play By Rose Collis
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