ANGLE'S mission:

To discover, develop and present new plays that reflect the unheard voice of local people; drawing exciting and extraordinary new talent from the seemingly commonplace.

ANGLE is committed to artistic excellence and works hand in hand with a wide range of theatre professionals to deliver productions and events; that provide a highly polished and public setting for raw new talent. It works with a broad spectrum of professional venues, community partners, and pioneers innovative design and marketing methods to inspire and generate new playwrights and audiences.

ANGLE'S Aims:

To invigorate the canon with new blood, presenting unheard voices in productions and bringing new themes and characters to the British stage.

To bring together the very best of established theatre professionals with daring new writing talent, creating an exciting exchange of ideas, experience and skills.

To provide a springboard for fledgling writers; launching them into the wider theatre context through comprehensive and practical experience of playwriting from early draft to production.

To innovate new methods of discovering, developing and producing new plays to new audiences, placing the audience at the heart of our work.

ANGLE'S Background:

ANGLE was set up in 2007 following Art Council funded research into theatre provision in London's East End. Findings from our research led us to establish demand and to launch a multi-lingual marketing campaign designed and sponsored by leading design experts, Pentagram.

Our campaign actively targeted local writers who exist outside of the regular theatre channels, across three boroughs. We went to the communities directly - to the high streets and back streets - distributing a "call for plays" in shops, cafes, libraries, cinemas and community centres. We worked in partnership with key BME community organisations in East London such as: The African Support and Project Forum, Daymer and The Hackney Refugee Forum.

ANGLE received 70 submissions from un-produced local writers across a broad spectrum of talent that included young people, pensioners and non-English speakers from the East End of London.

Each writer received written feedback from a group of professional and bi-lingual script readers and three plays by five talented writers were selected to be developed for production by a rigorous judging panel made up of theatre professionals, including: Dinah Wood (Faber and Faber); Paul Miller (National Theatre) and Dawn Walton (Eclipse.)

In November 2008, ANGLE won The Mark Marvin Rent Subsidy Award as part of The Peter Brook Awards in support of its inaugural season of plays: Tri ANGLE 09.

Our inaugural season - TriANGLE09:

Tri ANGLE09 brought a culture clash of new writing traditions and characters to the stage that included: Tamil petrol station workers in East London, teenage refugees and Brazilian migrants. It nurtured five talented playwrights through a comprehensive and practical experience of playwriting and it generated new audiences by re-visiting previous tapped communities from our "call for plays".

Our Tri ANGLE09 writers were: Shamser Sinha, Mina Maisuria, Luciana Saldanha, Saeed Taji Farouky, Michelle Forde.

Please see below for images from Tri ANGLE09


Looking into the future:

ANGLE is now using its proven, successful model for finding new talent for the British stage by 'calling for plays' from new playwrights in West London. This time we are working in conjunction with the powerhouse of new writing, the Bush Theatre. ANGLE at the Bush will be staged in January/February 2011. Click here for more information and TO BOOK.