| 2005 |
| Summer / Autumn | Up Close and Personal (C) | A miscellany of monologues from many members given full performances at several venues. Martin Drury and Dympna Jardine directed.
More details on this site. |
| May | Three's A Crowd (C) | A varied selection of three new plays chosen in competition for this ‘script in hand’ performance with professional actors and director / dramaturg, Clare Smout. More details on this site. |
| 2004 |
| November | Double Trouble (O) | After a competition two plays were chosen for full production by director Rob Swinton and representatives of The Nonentities.
More details on this site. |
| October | Scream (C) | 3 three-handed pieces inspired by the word 'Scream'. The performances were at The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster. The script-in-hand performances were directed by Kim Greengrass.
More details on this site. |
| July | 1, 2, 3 (C) | Six shows of monologues, duologues and three handers on issues to do with children, old age and medicine. The performances were at Worcester Arts Workshop, The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster and the Skills on Show exhibition at Worcester County Hall during July.
More details on this site. |
| February | Starting Over (O) | A starter session for those interested in, but new to writing for the stage, and those who wanted to refresh their basic knowledge of dramatic craft. See linked page for details. |
| 2003 |
| Winter | White Christmas (C) | 4 plays on the themes of White Christmas were given a professional script-in-hand presentation at The Rose Theatre. Lance Woodman directed.
More details on this site. |
| Autumn | Black Night (C) | 4 plays on the theme of black night were given a professional script-in-hand presentation at The Rose Theatre. Kim Greengrass directed.
More details on this site. |
| Summer | Chain Play (C) | 3 new plays were developed collaboratively by 7 writers working with 3 dramaturgs. One of the plays (On a Knife Edge by Anne Bucknall and Georgina Macbeth) was selected for performance at the Skills on Show event in Worcester.
More details on this site. |
| Summer | Secrets and Lies (C) | 3 new plays by local writers were performed by professional actors and directed by Clare Smout. The show played at The Rose, Kidderminster and Worcester Arts Workshop. You can see details of the competition
here. |
| January | Move to Kidderminster | With the closure of Worcester Swan Theatre the group moves to The Rose Theatre in Kidderminster. Read all about it here. |
| 2002 |
| Autumn / Winter | Campaign to keep Worcester Swan Theatre open | Not really a Swan Playwrights' event, but a major campaign that failed to save producing theatre and outreach work at the theatre. |
| Autumn | Taking the Lead (C) | 3 new plays by local writers were performed by professional actors and directed by Kim Greengrass at the Swan.
More details here. |
| Autumn | Talent (C) | 5 new plays by local writers were performed by local actors and directed by Alex Delamere at 3 different venues. Read more about this
competition here. |
| Summer | Theatre on the Run (C) | Street theatre plays. The Races by Georgina Macbeth was performed by a community company in Worcester city centre. |
| Summer | Golden Years (O) | Full length plays. The Pathless Land by Rose Marshall and Home Truth by Rob Clarke were selected for professional rehearsal and a public reading.
More details here. |
| Spring | Verger on the Ridiculous | by Anne Bucknall. A SP production at Worcester Theatre Festival. Read more about this
here. |
| 2001 |
| Autumn | TWOS-SOME! (C) | Short two-handers performed in the Swan's bar: Rose Marshall's In Two Minds, Mo Murrie's The Two of Us and Kate Shaw's Dead Centre of Highgate. |
| Autumn | Red Skies Over The Severn | A main-stage play commissioned by The Swan from SP member Lance Woodman. Jenny Stephens directed for The Swan. The critical success of the play led to Lance being awarded a Pearson playwriting busrsary in 2002/3. |
| Autumn | Victorian Voices | A pair of linked monologues written by SP members Ali Oxtoby and Andy Higgitt for The Swan's Education and Outreach section. The professionally cast plays toured to local schools. Directed by Kim Greengrass. |
| Autumn | TRIO (C) | Three-handed plays: Ali Oxtoby's Leeks on the Moon and Martin Drury's Eternal were shown at Worcestershire County Council's 'Skills on Show' event. Paul Milton directed. The casts included Dympna McGill, Dan Roebuck, Ian Sorley and Paul Milton. |
| Summer | HOT Theatre (O) | Full-length plays: 'Testament' by Kate Shaw, 'Something Else' by Nicola Jones and 'The Donkey Field' by Pam Green. |
| Spring | Worcester Century Plays | A main stage production of four plays produced in partnership with The Worcester Theatre Company. Read more about this
here. |
| 2000 |
| Autumn | Bar Stories (C) | Short plays: A Man Walks into a Bar by Lance Woodman, Anna's Interview by Tom Bryson and XXXXed by Martin Drury. |
| Summer | HOT Theatre (O) | Full-length plays: Mr Punch by Peter Quiller, Checkpoint by Andy Higgitt and Shifting Sands by Barbara Lindley. The extracts were directed by Jenny Stephens and Kim Greengrass. The actors were Ali Belbin, Alex Delamere, Erica Grant and Rob Swinton. |
| 1999 |
| Autumn | Swan Writers' Amnesty (C) | Duologues on a theme of human rights run in collaboration with Worcester's Amnesty International Group. The plays shown in the Swan's bar were Home Thoughts From Abroad by Kate Shaw, A Candle in the Wire? by Martin Drury and Eva's Amnesty by Ali Oxtoby. The plays were directed by Kim Greengrass and featured actors Bella Hamblin and Rob Swinton. |
| Summer | HOT Theatre '99 (O) | Full-length plays: Postman's Knock by Pam Felix and A Body of Learning by Steven Deproost. |
| Spring | All For One (C) | Monologues. Run in collaboration with University College Worcester's Drama Society. 6 pieces (by Pam Felix, Paul Francis, Coll Mealing, Kate Shaw, Bernard Speakman and Brenda Wheeler) were given a public script-in-hand reading. 5 pieces (by Laura Kirwan, Jonathan Morant, Jen Purser, Paul Rencher and Ian Sorley) were read by the Drama Society. |
| 1998 |
| Autumn | Plays in the Bar (C) | Short two-handers. The plays chosen were Kate by Andy Higgitt and Timetable by Pam Felix. |
| Summer | HOT Theatre (O) | Full-length plays: The White In Between by Peter Quiller and Jesus was Wrong by Neil Rhodes. Read all about it
here |
| Spring | New Voices (C) | A new play developed from a proposal (a supporting event to WTC's production of Sharman MacDonald's When I Was Young I Used to Scream and Shout). The Play workshopped was Remembering Eric by Paul Francis. |
| 1997 |
| Autumn | Armchair Theatre (C) | Monologues (a supporting event to WTC's production of three of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads). Playwrights workshopped were Paul Francis, Peter Lyons and Lance Woodman. |
| Summer | Free Theatre (O) | Workshopped seven new full-length plays with a professional company of 6 actors and 2 directors. The Playwrights workshopped were Jean Davies (Mangoes), Celia Gatward (A Day in a Problem of Fred), Andy Higgitt (Boxed In!), Peter Lyons (Farewell the Trumpets), Coll Mealing (A Pumpkin Called Marylyn), Kate Shaw (Hardy Women) and Lance Woodman (Colin, Joyce and Davy). |
| 1996 |
| Summer | The group is created | Jenny Stephens, Artistic Director of Worcester Swan Theatre, and her associate Mark Babych create a theatre writers' group. Early in 1997 the group is constituted as Swan Playwrights and bids for funds to run Free Theatre (see above). |