Jan Goodman in ‘One Hour Eighteen Minutes’

Everyone Has the Right is a free rolling script submission service (i.e. there is no deadline) for plays with human rights at their heart. A joint initiative with Amnesty International UK, Everyone Has the Right provides a natural home for writers exploring human rights stories to create surprising and entertaining theatre.

We accept plays written for the stage, in English, which have not been professionally produced in the UK.

Feedback will be provided by a member of the iceandfire team to the writer on how effective the play is in terms of theatricality, dialogue and characterisation. We cannot provide feedback on scripts that do not successfully fulfil the brief of exploring a human rights story.

The best plays will receive professional rehearsed readings at Amnesty International UK’s central London Human Rights Action Centre or a partner theatre. Those writers that we feel would benefit from longer term development will be paired with a dramaturg for more in-depth work on their script.

Plays can be of any length, but we will only read full scripts (no outlines or synopses please) written for theatre. We cannot accept scripts by email or fax. We are interested in scripts for all ages, so if you write theatre for young people please consider submitting to this scheme.

During Summer 2010, iceandfire Theatre facilitators Clea Langton and Sally Proctor and Sheffield Council Extended Services Co-ordinator, Rob Creasy worked with young people in the Broomhall community of Sheffield, to devise a new play exploring journeys taken by young refugees seeking sanctuary in the UK and the journeys taken by all young people at this transitional stage of their lives. Using the iceandfire outreach script, Asylum Monologues, as a starting point, the group went on the create their own new play, Come Back To Me. The project was participant led, encouraging the young people to take control of each stage of the theatre making process, from developing the script material to designing the flyers to creating the sound production.

Children Together

Children Together has been re-funded as part of Merton Council’s Positive Activities Fund. This time we are working with young people who are newly arrived or currently seeking asylum in collaboration with the South London Refugee Assocation Youth Club.

Separated

iceandfire’s first play for young people is being used by Fostering Agencies as part of an innovative training package for those caring for unaccompanied minors.

“I thought that the performance and the workshop was spectacular! I think that workshops like these are a far more productive way of ‘learning’ for carers and social workers.”

Terri Verier, Senior Social Work Practitioner, NCH

Protect the Human 2008

Including our playwriting competition with Amnesty International, Protect the Human, a Darfuri house installation at the V&A Museum of Childhood and a video project with Addaction UK.