Island Theatre Now Accepting Submissions of Original 10-Minute Plays for its 12th Annual Play Festival

As William Shakespeare was once overheard uttering, “the plays the thing.” So, along those lines, our own Island Theatre is now accepting submissions of 10-minute plays for its 2025 Ten-Minute Play Festival! Submission deadline is February 14, 2025. The theme for the 2025 Festival is ESCAPE.

“What does ESCAPE suggest to you? asks Island Theatre’s Steve Stolee. Is it an escape from. . . or an escape to? Is it a physical escape. . . or an escape in which one never takes a physical step? Is it bold or surreptitious? Sudden or long- planned? An act of choiceless desperation or one of powerful self-assertion? Is “escape” the beginning of the story or the end? Or is it the pivotal point that dramatically changes the action? What you make of ESCAPE is up to you – just make sure it’s central to your story.”

The competition is open to all Kitsap County playwrights – experienced and aspiring – high school age and above. To be a “Kitsap County playwright” means you currently live or work in Kitsap County, or you lived or worked here for a substantial period in the past.

Ten plays will be chosen from all the submissions by a panel of theatre professionals and the Island Theatre board of directors and announced in April. The chosen plays will be produced in four fully staged performances at the Buxton Center for the Arts (BPA) on Bainbridge Island during Island Theatre’s
Ten-Minute Play Festival in August 2025.

For more information and submission guidelines, go to www.IslandTheatre.org.

About Island Theatre. Island Theatre provides high-quality theater in intimate settings for adults who like to think. Our regular schedule includes Island Theatre at the Library (script-in-hand performances at the Bainbridge Public Library); Island Theatre at Your House (YoHo) (potluck play- readings in private homes at which guests are welcome to read a part); and the annual Island Theatre Ten-Minute Play Festival.

Run entirely by volunteers, Island Theatre is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization supported by donations, the Bainbridge Community Foundation, the City of Bainbridge Island Cultural Fund, the Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island, and One Call for All. More information is at www.IslandTheatre.org.

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