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Gay playwriting contest

The Gay Theatre Alliance is sponsoring an International Gay Playwriting Contest. The contest is an outgrowth of the 1980 National Gay Playwriting Contest, co-sponsored by The Glines and the Alliance to locate and encourage the writing of new gay plays. This year's contest, sponsored solely by the Gay Theatre Alliance, has been made international in scope and features larger cash prizes.

To qualify for the competition, a play may be either full length or one act and must have a major gay character or major gay theme; it must not have been published or previously produced (excepting staged readings or workshop productions).

submitted must be in the English language, typed, bound with a folder with the author's name, address and telephone number on the title page, and accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope for return of the script. Entries are limited to one play per author; musicals must be accompanied by a tape of the score.

Deadline for the receipt of entries is September 1, 1981. First prize in the contest is $500; second prize is $250 and the Gay Theatre Alliance will assist the winning playwrights in securing productions of their plays with member theatre companies. Winners will be announced December 1, 1981.

Playwrights should send

coordinator nearest them: (Northeast) Terry Helbing, P.O. Box 294, Village Station, New York, N.Y. 10014; (Midwest) Rick Paul, 1912 Central Avenue, Wilmette, III. 60091; (Upper Midwest)

Richard Rehse, 307 West 15th Box 18728, Denver, Colo. 80218; St., #44, Minneapolis, Minn. (Northwest) Allan Estes, 1115 55403; (Southeast) Richard Geary, San Francisco, CA. Neely, 720 Ardmore Road, West 94109; (Southwest) Frederick Palm Beach, FL. 33401; (Rocky Combs, 87551⁄2 Burton Way, Los Mountain) William Wade, P.O. Angeles, CA. 90048.

particularly interested in receiventries after June 1, 1981 to the DOWNTOWN BOOKS & NEWS

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Strider

(Continued from Page 14) flash are both very appropriate and very amusing, and once again the energetic Turney shows skills and good taste in turning a surplus of high spirits, of his own into a definite artistic plus. Turney plays his human roles in Strider with considerably more restraint.

To those who have been attending Play House productions regularly within the past couple of years, it is obvious that the talents of Rhys, Bicknell and Turney are among the chief reasons why the powers-that-be

have been deciding in favor of bolder, deeper and more venturesome productions.

Director Larry Tarrant has balanced the productions light and dark moments, and he keeps the audience too busy being carried along by the story's boldness and sweep to sink into despair at any particular evil being vividly depicted.

The whole cast of Strider is so excellent that despite seeing nearly two dozen actors playing horses, you are not tempted to make a single wise-crack about who should be playing a back

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