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The Knife -- Virgin Media Discovers

Virgin Media and Keeper Pictures

Virgin Media Discovers, in partnership with Screen Ireland, is a competition that helps new and established filmmakers and content creators get their stories heard.

The shortlisted projects for Virgin Media Discovers have been announced.

A panel of industry judges have selected four winners, who have won between €35,000 and €50,000 to fund the production of their short film or documentary, which will be featured at Dublin International Film Festival and Virgin Media iPlayer.

Knife (Comedy)
Writer: Joy Nesbitt, Producer: Grace Odumosu

Ife, a young black woman goes for her first pregnancy scan, only to discover that her child is brandishing a knife inside her womb.

Verity Bargate Award Longlist

Soho Theatre

In its 42nd year and from a record number of 1700 submissions, 20 new plays have been longlisted for Soho Theatre’s new writing competition, the Verity Bargate Award, sponsored by Character 7.

In a clear reflection of originality and audacity of emerging playwrights from across UK and Ireland, the list includes plays that span an extraordinary range of subjects, themes and genres. From an ailing bar in 1950s Trinidad and Tobago to encounters with walruses in contemporary Norway, to a near future where memories can be extracted and preserved for future generations.

 

Good
Written by Joy Nesbitt

Bullock Creek, SC. 1862. Ginnie is an enslaved woman enwrapped in a 10 year relationship with her captor, Doc. Navigating oppression of plantation life with 5 children, Ginnie attempts to conduct a romantic relationship with Doc as the civil war rages around the plantation. On the eve of emancipation, she must make a decision: to stay with her captor or free herself. Based on the true family history of the playwright, Good explores freedom, coercion, and ways in which Black women have had to navigate misogynoir throughout history. 

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"Short, snappy scenes, cleverly awash in pop culture references, bleed into each other to make a cinematic styled whole. Yet under Joy Nesbitt’s shrewdly paced direction, it all coheres wonderfully onstage. [...] Showing acute directorial acumen, Nesbitt understands the strength of Pringle’s script lies not in what's said, smart, funny and incisive as that is, but in what's being left unsaid. What cannot be said, especially when characters don’t know what they really want to say."

— THE ARTS REVIEW, "Boyfriends Review"

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