PORT ANGELES — “Eccentrics of the Northwest” is the theme for this year’s edition of the Find Your Voice Play Festival.
Peninsula College is looking for original short plays to be performed at the festival in June.
Entries are due by 5 p.m. March 8. Email or print copies can be sent to laras@pencol.edu or Lara Starcevich, Peninsula College, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles, WA 98362.
Each year, the theater showcase offers plays by students and others across and beyond the North Olympic Peninsula.
Often, three objects are chosen and anyone in the community is invited to write a scene of any genre that involves the three random objects. A past example was a toupee, a piñata and a slug.
Sometimes, a theme is chosen.
“This year, the theme is Eccentrics of the Northwest, since — as I tend to say when explaining the show — it seems that the Northwest attracts unusual non-conformist/eccentric people (which I find very cool) and if you weren’t eccentric when you got here, you’ll probably be eccentric by the time you leave,” Starcevich said.
Guidelines for play submissions:
■ The play must relate to the theme.
■ If based on a true story of eccentricity, names and places must be altered to fictionalize and respect others’ privacy.
■ Plays must be between two and 12 pages in length — and typed, double-spaced, in playscript format.
There is no cost to enter, and the opportunity is open to the public.
A group of students from the college will help Starcevich judge the submission and vote on the strongest eight or so, she said.
They will be selected based on several criteria, including whether the play addresses an unusual or eccentric character and the quality of the dramatic or comedic writing.
Also taken into consideration is whether the scene can be performed within reasonable set and technical constraints.
“Writers are invited to take, for instance, an eccentric person they may have met, find out their story and, if it’s OK with the person, fictionalize it into a dramatic/comedic play,” Starcevich said.
The plays will be selected and directors chosen.
Auditions will be April 7-8.
Show dates will be June 3-4 and June 10-11.
For more information, contact Starcevich by email or phone 360-417-6478.
