MATAMATA DRAMATIC SOCIETY INC
TEN MINUTE PLAY COMPETITION 2025
(Download the entry form from here)
Prizes:
a) Winning Play $200 b) Five runner-up plays $100 each
c) The top six plays will be performed at The Little Theatre in mid 2025
CRITERIA:
1. The playwright must be a resident of the Matamata-Piako or South Waikato districts.
2. Minimum playing time 8 minutes, maximum 10 minutes.
3. The entries must be suitable for a quick stage set with minimum props.
4. The entries must have a minimum cast of 2 characters and a maximum cast of 6 characters.
5. Entries are to be entirely anonymous and must be submitted using a pseudonym (refer Entry Form).
6. No entries will be accepted by email. Each entrant must submit 2 x bound copies of their play with numbered pages, written on one side only of A4 paper.
7. Entrants may submit more than one play.
8. Each entry must be the author’s own work. It must not be an adaptation of anyone else’s previously published or performed work.
We advise that you check copyright if quoting a previously published work.
9. This competition is for ‘new’ plays: in other words, they must not have won any previous award; not been published; not have been presented to a public audience in any form e.g. production or reading; and no workshopping of this new work by a recognised theatre group.
10. An entry fee of $10 per play must be deposited directly into the bank account of Matamata Dramatic Society: ASB 12-3438-0052757-00 with your NAME and reference SS2025
a) Winning Play $200 b) Five runner-up plays $100 each
c) The top six plays will be performed at The Little Theatre in mid 2025
CRITERIA:
1. The playwright must be a resident of the Matamata-Piako or South Waikato districts.
2. Minimum playing time 8 minutes, maximum 10 minutes.
3. The entries must be suitable for a quick stage set with minimum props.
4. The entries must have a minimum cast of 2 characters and a maximum cast of 6 characters.
5. Entries are to be entirely anonymous and must be submitted using a pseudonym (refer Entry Form).
6. No entries will be accepted by email. Each entrant must submit 2 x bound copies of their play with numbered pages, written on one side only of A4 paper.
7. Entrants may submit more than one play.
8. Each entry must be the author’s own work. It must not be an adaptation of anyone else’s previously published or performed work.
We advise that you check copyright if quoting a previously published work.
9. This competition is for ‘new’ plays: in other words, they must not have won any previous award; not been published; not have been presented to a public audience in any form e.g. production or reading; and no workshopping of this new work by a recognised theatre group.
10. An entry fee of $10 per play must be deposited directly into the bank account of Matamata Dramatic Society: ASB 12-3438-0052757-00 with your NAME and reference SS2025