Timeline

Please note this timeline is subject to change

Wednesday 1 April 2009

Closing date for Script entries and ITC Submissions

Tuesday 14 April 2009
Closing date for Directors registrations

Early – Mid April 2009

Meetings with potential Directors 
and ITCs

Third week of April 2009
  • Directors and ITCs selected & notified
  • Scripts short listed and 
Writers notified
  • Short-listed plays sent to Top 30 and Mandarin 10 Directors for selection

    Fourth week of April 2009
    Top 30 and Mandarin 10 plays allocated to Directors


    Thursday 30 April 2009
    
Closing date for Actor registrations


    First week of May 2009
    
Audition dates and times sent out to actors

    Saturday 9 May 10am
    Directors
 meeting

    Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 May
    
Auditions

    Sunday 24 May – Tuesday 23 June 2009
  • Directors cast & rehearse plays

  • Plays in weeks 2 and 3 may start rehearsals later and continue past June 23

    First week in June 2009
    Plays finalised into weekly programmes

    Wednesday 17 June 2009
    Running orders finalised

    Monday 8 – Monday 15 June 2009
    Top 30 Production meetings

    Saturday 13 – Sunday 14 June 2009
    Mandarin 10 Production meetings

    Wednesday 24 June 2009
    
Top 30 Season opens at Flexible Performance Space at LASALLE College of The Arts

    Wednesday 1 July 2009
    Mandarin 10 Season opens at the Play Den at The Arts House

    Thursday 16 July 2009
    Gala Finals begin at the Studio Theatre at The Esplanade

    Saturday 18 July 2009
    Gala Finals close with the Awards Ceremony at the Studio Theatre at The Esplanade