The Edythe Brook Cooper Playwriting Competition has sadly come to an end. We would like to thank BATS Theatre Company Inc. for their participation since it’s inception in 2010.
A big thank you to all the entrants over the years and to the following winners:
2012 One Act Plays
PIECES by Sharyn Anne Durley QLD
ONCE BITTEN by Sue Sewell QLD
THICKER THAN WATER byNeil Anderson VIC
2014 Full Length Plays
DRIFTING by Jo Denver QLD
WARTS and ALL (runner up) by Bruce Hoogendoorn
2016 One Act Plays
SENSES WORKING OVERTIME
by Robert Attenborough
PIGEONS in TRAFALGAR SQUARE
by Bruce Olive
LOVE in a FOOD COURT
by Hugh O’BRIEN
2018 Full Length Plays
DEEP ETERNITY
by Cerise De Gelder
TRUE COLOURS
by Danny Vendramini (runner up)
2020 One Act Plays
ONE STARRY NIGHT
by Kevin Nemeth
WOULDN’T IT BE NICE
by Sue Sewell
ASHES TO DUST
by Yvette Wall
2022 Full Length Plays
THE BORROWING OF FRANKLIN’S
RAM
by Sue Sewell
FAKE PLASTIC TREES
by Kel Vance (runner up)
Thank you to the following adjudicators for their contribution:
Ian Austin
Glenda O’Connor
Peta Beattie
Joy Marshall
Felicity Bassingthwaighte
Ron Kelly
Catherine Steer
Alison Lambole
Jacqueline Twigg
Simon Denver
Ranald McCowan
A big thank you to our coordinators:
Susie Pritchard and Jacqui Mata Luque who devised this entire competition and have seen it through so enthusiastically and efficiently.
Master of Ceremonies
John McMahon
Also a big thankyou to John McMahon. Edythe chose him to give her eulogy and we very much appreciated his major supporting role as Master of Ceremonies.
On behalf of the Edythe Brook Cooper Trust
Janice Harper and Bronley Norman
