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Tiny Play Challenge

Keeping your creativity flowing with 600 word Tiny Plays

During the past few months, Fishamble, and the Irish artistic community, has been working hard to keep imaginations lively, communities engaged, and most of all offer people the opportunity of communication through creative expression. Fishamble wanted people to keep their creativity flowing by challenging people in Ireland and around the world, to write 600 word Tiny Plays.
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From March to April, Fishamble set this challenge for residents of Ireland and the Irish abroad, with a weekly prompts of COMMUNITY, NATURE, TRADE, and ESSENTIAL. Fishamble then opened this challenge out to the rest of the world in May, asking people to respond to the prompt of CHANGE.

​Fishamble was delighted to receive over 470 submissions in total for the #TinyPlayChallenge, and published a selection of the Tiny Plays here on the website, in addition to sending a prize of Fishamble playscripts to the chosen writers.

Fishamble Presents Tiny Plays 24/7

Fishamble was proud to present Tiny Plays 24/7, a selection of tiny plays submitted from the #TinyPlayChallenge, which was presented online for audiences to enjoy.

The show included pieces performed on the O’Reilly Theatre stage and filmed, and multimedia pieces created digitally.
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Global prompt: CHANGE

For our final #TinyPlayChallenge, we asked people all over the world to submit their Tiny Plays. After receiving over 250 responses, we are delighted to share this selection of plays with you.
BEAR HUNT by Grace Lobo
CHANGE by Jamie Kenny
CHANGE by Patrick O'Laoghaire
THE WONDER OF YOU by Eric O'Brien
FULL HOUSE by Clare Monnelly
INCOMPLETE by Rían Smith
HANDS by Holli Harms
RAGNAROK by Ryan Murphy
FOR HOW JANELLE MONÁE ONCE MADE ME FEEL by Julia Marks
WAR PAINT by Conor Hanratty
WILD HORSES by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth
STORYTELLER by Onerva Helne
TOGETHER APART by Suri Grennell
THE CORRECTIVE by Aaron Finnegan

Week 4: ESSENTIAL

I'M OFF by Chloe O'Reilly
MARTYRS by Caitríona Daly
YOU by Keith Hanna
ESSENTIAL by Roseanna Purcell
KEEP OR BIN by Rosa Bowden
THE MARBLE CONTRAPTION by Claudia Kinahan

Week 3: TRADE

FOLSOM by Diane Crotty
ROUNDABOUTS IN THE AFTERNOON by William Silke
CLOWNS FOR SALE by Eric Weitz
OXYGEN by James Ireland
AR SCÁTH A CHÉILE Le Conall Ó Beoláin

Week 2: NATURE

ISOBABY by Krystal Sweedman
COPING WITH COCOONING by Breandan O'Broin
JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE BIRDS by Maria Popovic
EVERYONE'S SORRY by Colette Cullen
I REMEMBER YOU By Eileen Gibbons

Week 1: COMMUNITY

KISS OF DEATH by Lora Hartin
TWENTY TWENTY VISION by Bridgid Galvin
HOMING by Julia Marks
STAY AWHILE by Ann Sheehy
H(O)ME by Larissa Brigatti

As we live through these strange times, Fishamble is finding further ways to continue to engage with artists and the public. The Tiny Play Challenge is intended to stimulate people to use their creativity to give shape to new experiences, and we have been thrilled with the response so far. 
 
For the final challenge, we are extending the invitation to submit a play to anyone, of any nationality, living anywhere in the world. 
 
In the end the company believes that the role of theatre is to allow people to reflect deeply on and to share the human experience. After all, we are all in this together. We think the world needs to talk to itself.
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Jim Culleton, Artistic Director of Fishamble
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  • About
    • Meet the Team
    • Board & Governance
    • Community Engagement
    • Research
    • Encore
    • Fishamble Diaries
    • News
  • Productions
    • The Humours of Bandon
    • 2022 Programme
      • Heaven
      • Mustard
      • OUTRAGE
      • Pat Kinevane Plays
        • KING
        • Before
        • Silent
        • Forgotten
        • Underneath
      • The Treaty
      • Duck Duck Goose
    • 34 years of Fishamble
  • Artist Supports
    • 2022 Transantlantic Commissions Programme
    • Playwriting Courses
    • New Play Clinic
    • Send Us Your Writing
    • Fishamble New Writing Award
    • Mentoring & Workshops
    • Duets
  • Support Fishamble
    • Become a Friend
    • Donate
    • Corporate Membership
    • Sponsorship
    • Thank you
  • Tiny Plays
    • Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future
    • Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future Challenge
    • Tiny Plays 24/7
    • #TinyPlayChallenge
    • Tiny Plays for Ireland and America
    • Tiny Plays for Ireland 2
    • Tiny Plays for Ireland
  • Calendar
  • Contact
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