NTC has received funding to produce A Wife or the Gallows and Other Telling Tales, a new, northern Canterbury Tales for family audiences, which will tour nationally in autumn 2015
The company is now looking for an emerging North-based writer to join the writing team for this project.
The production will comprise of six tale-telling misadventures with comic, sad, bawdy stories in the vein of The Canterbury Tales, drawing upon the working roots of the region, including fishing, mining, farming and ship building. Writers may be complete beginners or have had one professional production of their work.
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend a two-day workshop in Alnwick, Northumberland, in May 2015, before a successful writer is selected. The chosen writer will have their work professionally produced, and will receive a fee of £1,000.
For more information and to apply