The South Australian Writers’ Theatre Inc What is SAWT? The South Australian Writers' Theatre Inc [SAWT] is a group of writers who specialise in the writing of scripts for stage and radio. The primary aim is to increase the quantity and improve the quality of South Australian writing for performance. To become a Full Member of SAWT you need to have written a script or be working on a script, otherwise you join as an Associate Member. Concessions apply for the unemployed, students and pensioners. Script Development SAWT has developed a process to assist its members to improve their scripts by means of "Cells". A Cell consists of two or three SAWT members who read the new script and give considered opinion on the work. The Cell members then meet with the Playwright to discuss their suggestions for further development. The Playwright reports on the progress of the Cell at a General Meeting. The script, when at a suitable standard, is read to the members at a General Meeting. The feedback gained will inspire re-writes of the work and a full-day workshop with a director and actors then follows. Occasionally, when there are sufficient funds, full professional workshops are run, culminating at times in public readings, some of which are moved, rehearsed readings. You learn as much from working on a Cell as you do from the feed-back you receive on your own script. Script-in-Hand Performances From time to time public readings are presented (script-in-hand performances). The scripts used for these performances have been through the Cell process and have been re-written to present a high quality work-in-progress to the public. The public offers feedback on the work thereby giving further ideas and help to the writer. How to Join the South Australian Writers’ Theatre Write to us at: PO Box 818 Kent Town S.A. 5071 Telephone us: 8231 0955 (Clorine Jackson, Membership Registrar) 8431 2647 (Ross Barrett, Chair) e-mail us: rosshell@cobweb.com.au (Chair) Webpage: http://sawt.freeservers.com The following membership categories apply: Full member [writer] $50/yr or $26 for 6mths Conc. [writer - pensioner/student] $30/yr or $16 for 6mths [SAWT Full or Concession members receive extensive help with their scripts, concession prices to all SAWT productions, 12 month’s subscription to Apollo’s Voice (SAWT’s Newsletter) and are welcome to attend all meetings, readings workshops etc.] Associate [for a writer who has not yet written a script, or an actor, technician, etc] $20/yr [Associate members receive concession prices to all SAWT productions, 12 month’s subscription to Apollo’s Voice (SAWT’s Newsletter) and are welcome to attend all meetings, readings workshops etc.] Friend of SAWT $20/yr Friend of SAWT [helper] $15/yr [Friends of SAWT receive free admission to all script-in-hand performances, concession prices to all other SAWT productions, 12 months subscription to Apollo’s Voice (SAWT’s Newsletter) and are welcome to attend all meetings, readings workshops etc.] Please let us have the following information about you: Name Postal Address Telephone Fax number Email address Writing credits [if applicable] SAWT Success Stories and Recent Titles and Events STAGE Productions and Moved Readings with State Theatre Company: Tickling the Tail of the Sleeping Dragon by Ross Barrett 1998 I.D. by Meg Roberts 1998 One Act Plays by Marian Hoenig and Douglas Muecke 1990 Other Productions of SAWT Members’ Plays: The Whizzes of Auz by Jeanne Mazure, The Promethean, 1999 (Promethean Productions) The Wedding Dress by Michelle Arbery, The Promethean, 1998 The Systematic Anarchist by Norm Munro, The Promethean, 1998 (Ego Productions) Falls the Shadow by Norm Munro, Bakehouse Theatre 1998 (Ego Productions) Numerous plays by SAWT members for the One Act Play Festival, Scotch College 1998, 1996, 1994 (during the Adelaide Fringe Festival) Mary MacKillop – Saint or Sinner by Meg Roberts, 1997 (Galleon Theatre) Double Check by Meg Roberts, 1997 (The Saturday Company) The Billabong Circus by Jean Mann, The Promethean, 1996 (SAWT, in partnership with Plaster Cast Productions) Mary MacKillop – Saint or Sinner by Meg Roberts, Yankalilla Victoriana Festival 1996 (Shoestring Theatre) Breaking Glass by Jeanne Mazure, The Promethean 1996 (Actwrite) Freud Notices his Fly is Undone by Norm Munro, The Promethean 1996 (Ego Productions) One Plain, One Pearl by Leo Damant, The Promethean, 1996 (The Vallen Theatre Company) Duet for an Anzac comprising Games by Tony Brooks and Billy Hughes by Ross Barrett, 1996 (in partnership with Plaster Cast Productions) The Three Billy Goats Gruff Jean Mann, The Promethean, 1995 (SAWT, in partnership with Plaster Cast Productions) Murphy is Alive and Well by Meg Roberts, The Promethean 1995 (SAWT in partnership with Shamrock) Games by Tony Brooks, SA Writers’ Centre Theatrette (Shoestring Theatre) Sherlock Holmes and the Coming of the Fairies by Ross Barrett, The Promethean, 1994 (SAWT) Fugues, Quartets and Other Dissonances by Jeanne Mazure, 1994 (SAWT) Princess Gruff by Wendy Milotti, The Promethean, 1994 Water by Tony Brooks, Honest John also by Tony Brooks, and Mary MacKillop – Saint or Sinner by Meg Roberts, performed in beautiful old buildings in and around Adelaide 1994 (Shoestring Theatre) Honourable Prophets by Pat Mitchell, The Little Theatre, (Murray Bridge High School senior drama students) Curve of the Earth by Tony Brooks, La Mama Theatre (Shoestring Theatre) Greetings from Retaw by Anita Clara (TIE ) Love in the Chookhouse by Ross Barrett (Theatre Guild’s "First Time Out" season) Suns of Home by Ross Barrett, Red Shed (SAWT) And I’ll Give You All The Diamonds In My Teeth by Jeanne Mazure, The Red Shed (SAWT) Streetwise by Jeanne Mazure, La Mama Theatre (Nonsuch) Moved Readings by SAWT: See You In My Country by Tony Brooks Sister Sister; Tickling the Tail of the Sleeping Dragon; Billy Hughes; and Suns of Home by Ross Barrett The Hidden Secret of Christmas by Clorine Jackson Folly Bridge; and Digger by Kelvin Butcher The Systematic Anarchist by Norm Munro I.D.; and Murphy is Alive and Well by Meg Roberts Off Centre by Randi Cernaz Glass by Jeanne Mazure Moved Readings by Other Companies: Fugues, Quartets and Other Dissonances by Jeanne Mazure, The Promethean (for the Third International Women’s Playwrights’ Conference) Woman in Black by Anita Clara (Vitalstatistix Winter Play Readings) And I’ll Give You All The Diamonds In My Teeth by Jeanne Mazure, Canberra (Australian National Playwrights' Conference) Curve of the Earth by Tony Brooks, Brighton (St. Judes Players) A Grand Life by Meg Roberts, Brighton (St. Judes Players) OVERSEAS Moved Readings: Love in the Chookhouse by Ross Barrett, Chicago 1996, (Studio Z) Double Check by Meg Roberts, Chicago 1996 (Studio Z) and New York (Theatre in Education) Games by Tony Brooks, Chicago 1995 Murphy is Alive and Well by Meg Roberts, Chicago 1994 (Studio Z) RADIO Plays Produced by the ABC: Two plays by Anita Clara Plays Produced by Other Companies: Mary MacKillop – Saint or Sinner; Tom’s Cri de Coeur; Yours Very Truly; and Double Check by Meg Roberts, (Radio 5UV)