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Chickenshed's Write Here, Write Now week builds on the success of Emerging Writers which gained a reputation as a fascinating and exciting platform for new writing from the Chickenshed Writers' Group. The five featured plays give us an opportunity to showcase a varied and thought-provoking array of new work that reflects our writers' diverse backgrounds, experiences and interests. In some cases the ink will be barely dry on the page, while other pieces will be more fully advanced along their creative journey! Audiences are set to enjoy a dynamic, eclectic and informal smorgasbord of fresh and energetic new writing, simply staged. Our audiences are set to enjoy a dynamic, eclectic and informal smorgasbord of fresh and energetic new writing, simply staged. Plenty of Catfish - A tale of modern online dating where people are free to invent many of their personal details... The Bartered Bride - Olympian God Zeus is making the biggest career move of his life and is prepared to use anything and anyone to get what he wants! It Happens - A young woman trying to be 'the perfect Muslim' encounters temptation... To See a Familiar Smile - Explores the subject of family, love and the powerful, personal need for success from the point of view of Ben who has cerebral palsy...

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Alice Straker (Plenty of Catfish), Zdenka Prockova (The Bartered Bride), Gimilla Shamruk (It Happens), Paul Fricker (To See a Familiar Smile), Daisy Watford (Whispers)