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History
'The Playbox-Asialink Playwriting Competition seeks to invigorate Australian playwrighters exploration and engagement with our place in the Asia-Pacific region. The competition was created to encourage Australian playwrights to draw on the themes and styles, the history and politics, the theatre and the languages of our geographic region as means to invigorate theatre and to more truly reflect our place in the world.' (https://australianplays.org/award/playbox-asialink-prize-for-bilingual-play)
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Launched in 1994, this biennial competition seeks to strengthen the Australian playwright's exploration and engagement with our place in the Asia-Pacific region. The winning playwright receives a prize of $5000 (plus $2000 supplement for redrafting if selected for production) and a special initiative prize of $2000 is open to playwrights from a non-English speaking background.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2003
winner Tokyo Henry 2003 single work drama -
Year: 2001
winner Songket 2001 single work drama
— Appears in: Songket [and] This Territory : Two Plays 2008; (p. 1-64) -
Year: 1997
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Rising Fish Prayer
Strawberry Hills
Melbourne
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Currency Press
Playbox Theatre
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1998
Z441915
1998
single work
drama
This play is 'a confronting and timely examination of the politics of business, the business of politics, and a man whose life is brought to the very brink. Australian, Ken Peterson, finds himself engulfed in political and social upheaval when he arrives to take up the position of manager of a small gold mine in Papua New Guinea on behalf of a multinational company. The departure of his predescessor is shrouded in mystery and the mine is not running as smoothly as reports have been indicating. As tensions mount a European environmmental journalist arrives, determined not to leave without a good story.' Back cover.
