Call for Plays

"Christ's Descent into Limbo," ci. 1440; Rijsmuseum, Amsterdam

Ohio State’s Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute has taken on a project to showcase short plays about “Limbo,” and invites playwrights to submit ten-minute plays. Originally started through the International Centre for Women Playwrights, whose work is archived at the Lawrence and Lee Institute, the Limbo Project will present staged readings of ten-minute plays on the subject of "Limbo" (which can be interpreted as broadly as needed, from the place the Roman Catholic Church used to say unbaptized babies spent eternity, to the Caribbean dance, to whatever writers can come up with) for staged readings to be held at Ohio State University. The deadline for submission is December 12, 2007. Scripts should be submitted in Word or RTF format electronically to woods.1@osu.edu

Selected plays will be read on Friday, January 25, 2008, in the New Works Lab at the Drake Performance and Event Center on Ohio State University’s Columbus campus. That's the feast day of St. Gregory of Nazianzus, who in the fourth century of the common era first articulated the notion of Limbo. Decisions about scripts accepted for readings will be announced by the end of December, 2007.