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Meet the readers for Fifth Word Playwrights!

We are delighted to introduce our brilliant panel of readers for Fifth Word Playwrights group. The four-strong panel comprises; afshan d’souza-lodhi, Nathan Ellis, Omar Khan and Hannah Stone. All eligible…
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We’re Hiring!

We are looking for a Freelance Support Facilitator to join the Fifth Word team. Are you passionate about practical, clear and kind support for all writers, enthusiastic about playwriting, and…
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ANNOUNCING LIBERATION SQUARES

A world premiere co-production by Fifth Word and Nottingham Playhouse in association with Brixton House Join us next Spring in Nottingham or on tour for this sharp, funny, brilliant new…
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See Me: Creative Participation Project

About See Me is a creative participation project which ran over Spring-Summer 2023, alongside the development of our play, Liberation Squares by Sonali Bhattacharyya. Supported by funding from Awards for…
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Your Voice

Do you live in Mansfield? Are you aged between 14-19? ( or up to 25 years old if you identify as having a disability) Interested in different ways of telling…
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Launching We Need New Stories

Ritah Outhwaite – Oral History Interviewee We Need new Stories will gather & platform stories of migration from first-generation Zimbabweans in Nottingham & dramatise them as audio plays following interviews…
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New Adaptation of We Need New Names

Mufaro Makubika to write a new play for the stage based on Booker prize shortlisted novel WE NEED NEW NAMES by NoViolet Bulawayo In the midst of an exhausting year-…
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