Scripts, Irelands Playwriting Festival
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This Year's festival theme is :

Applications are Now Closed

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Playwrights
Residency

Every year, we invite 3 playwrights to come to Birr for a week of mentorship with Eugene O'Brien and a rehearsed reading of their work by professional actors.

Scripts 2024
Call for submissions

Scripts is dedicated to new Irish plays —

the writing of them, the development and nurturing of them.

This year's theme is "TIME".

 

Make of it what you wish and write a brand new play to apply for Scripts 2024 play-writing residency and mentorship in Birr (County Offaly)

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Playwrights Residency

Every year, we invite 3 playwrights to come to Birr for a week of mentorship with Eugene O'Brien and a rehearsed reading of their work by professional actors.

The George B.
Miller Award

Our new collaboration in partnership with Youth Theatre in memory of the late and great friend of Scripts

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Birr
Festivals
Collective

The coming together of Birr's five festivals to strengthen our town's position as an attractive and accessible cultural destination

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