The Writers Bloc

30 March 2010
The Writers Bloc
The Writers Bloc
Website: http://www.philippineplaywrights.org/
Email Address: allanlopez@philippineplaywrights.org
Editor/Consultant: Rody Vera
Country: Philippines
Type: Organization

Description: THE WRITERS BLOC is an independent organization of established and aspiring playwrights that seeks to create a fresh vision and to define new perspectives in contemporary Philippine Drama. Its members, including some of the country's best and most promising plawyrights today, gather every other Sunday to read and critically assess new works. Some of these plays have won Palanca awards and major theatre companies have staged several of them. The organization traces its roots in 1989, to an informal group of in-house writers of the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) who bonded together to seriously study the craft of playwriting. Under the auspices of PETA, a program geared towards the acquisition of dramaturgical skills and the development of proper theatre attitudes among promising new talents was developed. Under the guidance of Rene O. Villanueva and coordinator Charley dela Paz, the Bloc not only served as a regular venue for the critical assessment of new works, but also conducted rehearsed readings, mounted laboratory productions, assisted playwrights in marketing and promoting their plays, and provided facilitators of playwriting workshops for other groups.

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