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BBC video article on the Royal Court Young Writers' Programme.
I hate them. I hate them and their youth. But my slightly less NASTY point is why is this thing still running in this format? I clearly remember posting, at least two years ago, about an article that said the Royal Court's Young Writers' Programme was going to change to a New Writers' Programme, thereby demonstrating some understanding of the fact that a novice playwright of seventy has just as much potential to succeed as one of nineteen, and needs the same degree of support. Why has that taken at least two years to come to fruition? Why is the Court so over-excited, still, to be producing a teenager? Why is Honno's recent news story about having offered a two-book deal to a novice writer of 82 yet to be replicated in theatre?
I hate them. I hate them and their youth. But my slightly less NASTY point is why is this thing still running in this format? I clearly remember posting, at least two years ago, about an article that said the Royal Court's Young Writers' Programme was going to change to a New Writers' Programme, thereby demonstrating some understanding of the fact that a novice playwright of seventy has just as much potential to succeed as one of nineteen, and needs the same degree of support. Why has that taken at least two years to come to fruition? Why is the Court so over-excited, still, to be producing a teenager? Why is Honno's recent news story about having offered a two-book deal to a novice writer of 82 yet to be replicated in theatre?
