Annual meeting for authors of theater, the call for writings is launched this Monday, March 28. To apply for the 9th edition of the RFI Theater Prize, candidates have five weeks to invent, refine, refine, adjust their text and send it to us before the deadline of Saturday May 7, 2022, at midnight.
For the 2022 RFI Theater Prize, the address remains unchanged: [email protected]. Each candidate must send his text with title and name of the author as well as the completed registration form.
Usually almost two hundred texts arrive each year and each time it is a wonder to know that from all the cities of the world, women and men write the world, their society, anger and their emotions in theatrical forms, that is, in an address to the public. Last year, Jean D’Amérique was the first Haitian to win. Who will succeed him? Man ? Women ? From Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean? No one knows to this day!
Before participating, read and reread your text, but also read the rules carefully!
To participate, authors must be between 18 and 46 years old and send a text in French with a minimum of 15 numbered pages (which is much easier for the reading committee to read). The prize is open exclusively to authors born and living in Africa, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean or the Middle East. To take local political situations into account, the call for papers is also open to nationals of countries in the aforementioned areas, who have been living in France for less than four years and who hold a residence permit or political refugee status.
With the reading cycle of the Festival d’Avignon, It’s alright, it’s alright people!, and with the Prix Théâtre, RFI has been committed for several years to discovering and highlighting new talents in playwriting. And it is clear that the winners of this prize have all evoked an essential human and artistic adventure in their career. All are read, some are performed, others published, but each has multiplied work meetings during proposed residencies and invitations to festivals and theater houses.
Accompaniment and support
This prize allows you to be heard on the airwaves of RFI as part of the cycle of readings of It’s alright, it’s alright people! recorded at the Festival d’Avignon, but all the loyal partners of this prize allow the winners to benefit from working time, whether at the Villa Ndar in St Louis in Senegal, at the Maison des Auteurs in Limoges or at the CDN Normandie -Rouen, dramaturgical accompaniment with Théâtre Ouvert and unfailing support from the SACD and the Institut français. There will only be one winner, but among all the texts sent, a dozen will be shortlisted and proposed to an international jury. It is therefore the certainty of being read and spotted sometimes.
The RFI Theater Prize is organized in partnership with the French Institute, the French Institute of Saint-Louis in Senegal, the National Dramatic Center of Normandy-Rouen, the SACD, Les Francophonies – From writing to the stage and the Open Theater, National Center for Contemporary Dramaturgies.
