A Play, A Pie and A Pint Script Reading Service
STATUS - OPEN
STATUS - OPEN
Anyone can send a play to be considered for production at A Play, A Pie and A Pint
Anyone can send a play to be considered for production at A Play, A Pie and A Pint. There is a submissions window which is open for three months at a time. Playwrights' Studio Scotland runs this service for A Play, A Pie and A Pint.
A Play, A Pie and A Pint produces a new lunchtime play every week. You can get a sense of their work from visiting their website or from seeing a show.
There's some guidance on this page about what work you can send to be read for consideration. If your play doesn't fit the criteria it can't be considered for A Play, A Pie and A Pint, but you can send any full length play to Playwrights' Studio's National Script Reading Service which is open all year and provides feedback to every Scottish or Scotland-based writer.
What are A Play, A Pie and A Pint looking for?
A Play, A Pie and A Pint is looking for new 50-55 minute plays for no more than three actors.
Within those parameters, we want to be surprised by your ideas for what might happen on our stage.
Our audiences like variety. We warmly welcome musicals and comedies. But we also want plays with a big heart, thrillers, experimental dramas, shows with a radical spirit.
We would love to receive plays that aren’t set in the present day. And we particularly welcome plays that speak in voices not often represented on the theatre stage.
We’d recommend coming to see a show at A Play, A Pie and A Pint before submitting your play, and getting a sense of this unique context for presenting theatre.
Your work is less likely to be programmed if it strongly resembles work we’ve presented at A Play, A Pie and A Pint before.
A Play, A Pie and A Pint regularly programmes work that reaches us via the Playwrights Studio submission window. Recent examples, in the last year alone, include: Armour written and composed by Shonagh Murray; Pushin’ Thirty by Elfie Picket (Taylor Dyson and Calum Kelly); Bread and Breakfast by Kirsty Halliday; Hotdog by Ellen Ritchie; Tamám Shud by Thomas Jancis; and Castle Fallon by Peter Stewart.
How do I submit a play?
Submissions
Please use the A Play, A Pie and A Pint Script Reading Service form.
Please don't include any details that identify you as the writer on your script as all plays are read anonymously.
Equalities Monitoring
As part of the submission you'll be asked to provide some demographic information about yourself. This is for our overall equalities monitoring and is processed separately from your submission.
What happens next?
You will receive an email from Jotform confirming the submission of your script. All plays are read by experienced script readers who work in the wider industry as actors, writers, directors, dramaturgs, producers or in other roles and who work closely with the team at A Play, A Pie and A Pint to match work to their stages. They'll recommend whether A Play, A Pie and A Pint takes your play further.
You'll be notified within twelve weeks of the script window closing on Monday, 10th February 2025 whether or not your script has been recommended for further consideration to A Play, A Pie and A Pint. If so, it'll be read further within the A Play, A Pie and A Pint team and from there, they'll arrange further action. Your play being further considered does not guarantee it will be produced, though a number of plays in their seasons have been programmed this way, but may lead to conversations about future work.
Questions
If you have any questions about submitting your script to the A Play, A Pie and A Pint Script Reading Service, please read the Frequently Asked Questions. If your question is not answered, please email info@playwrightsstudio.co.uk and we will be happy to help.