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Session 

for Clarifications

ONLINE
31 January / 7 PM (GMT)

Watch here

If you were unable to participate in the clarification session, you can now watch the recording of it on our YouTube channel. If you have questions that you have not yet been able to clarify, send them to producao@cepatorta.org

About the 4th edition

Until March 31, 2024, applications are open for the 4th edition of the New Dramaturgy Award for Female Authorship, at the scope of the Festival of interpreted readings of theater texts -Esta noite grita-se.

 

To find out how to compete, see the Regulations 

(in portugueses)

 

 

For any additional clarifications about the competition, interested parties can send their questions to producao@cepatorta.org

The New Dramaturgy Award for Female Authorship aims to promote, recognize and publicize female-authored dramaturgy in Portuguese and is aimed at all natural persons, of legal age, who identify with the female gender, whether cisgender or transgender.

 

This award aims to promote, recognize and disseminate drama written by women in Portuguese. The competition is open to all natural persons, of legal age, who identify with the female gender, whether cisgender or transgender, and who want to propose an unprecedented and never-before-performed dramaturgical work.

After receiving the applications and analyzing them by the jury - Ana Bigotte Vieira, Cucha Carvalheiro and Jorge Palinhos - three finalists will be selected and will have the opportunity to participate in a mentoring process and eventual improvement of the texts, with the support of each member of the jury.

In October we will find out about the winning work, which will be awarded a monetary value of €750 and included in the program of the 8th season of the Festim of readings of theater texts - This night screams, which takes place from October to December 2024 , in addition to being published as a book, through a partnership with the publisher Douda Correria.

In its first three editions, the award received more than 350 applications from several Portuguese-speaking countries, with the 2023 edition closing with a flourish, with the award ceremony and reading of the text, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in early December.

Sofia Perpétua won the 3rd edition of the New Dramaturgy Award for Female Authorship, with the play "Tanque". Maria Giulia Pinheiro was the winner of the 2nd edition, with the work “ Isso não é Relevante ”, in 2022 and Lara Mesquita won the 1st edition, with “ Nunca que Segundo ”, in 2021.

Some relevant data

The New Dramaturgy Award for Female Authorship aims to promote, recognize and publicize female-authored dramaturgy in Portuguese and is aimed at all natural persons, of legal age, who identify with the female gender, whether cisgender or transgender.

 

This award aims to promote, recognize and disseminate drama written by women in Portuguese. The competition is open to all natural persons, of legal age, who identify as female, whether cisgender or transgender, and who want to propose a  Unpublished and never performed dramaturgical work.

According to the International Center for Women Playwrights, an NGO dedicated to encouraging the work of women playwrights, 70% of the plays produced annually in the world are by men. When it comes to publishing works, the number drops even further - in Portugal we estimate that less than 15% of the texts edited are by women. This panorama in no way favors the diversity and richness of artistic production, hindering the innovation brought by the female gaze of female creators who, without adequate stimulus, continue to be far from the circuits necessary for the dissemination of their works. In the artistic direction of Esta Noite Scream, we have had difficulty balancing the authorial genre because the choice options are very limited when it comes to female playwrights. Only by encouraging creation will it be possible to change this reality and ensure that more women artists take risks and publish their work. 

 

Here are some useful links for those who want to delve a little deeper into this topic:

https://www.womenarts.org/not-even/not-even-impact-of-playwrights-gender/

https://lafpi.com/the-facts/#10

https://playbill.com/article/only-1-in-5-plays-written-by-women-this-season-down-from-last-year-com-363340

https://www.womenplaywrights.org/The-Challenge

 

 

To find out more about this initiative, see the pages of Esta noite grita-se 20232022 and 2021

Companhia Cepa Torta and the Festival of interpreted readings of theater texts -  Esta noite grita-se are supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts

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