Starters for Ten:

To launch this year’s Write Now Festival we have a selection of short plays to whet your appetite.

Chosen from submissions to the Jack, these plays explore different aspects of our chosen theme: Lead Us. We’re giving playwrights the chance to show the world what a real leader looks like (or failing that, to show us where we’re going wrong).

What defines a leader? Do they command or defer?
Do we pick them, or do they pick themselves?

Heart warming, thought-provoking and humorous, these short plays are drawn from UK and international submissions.

The 2015 shorts winners are: Footprints by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson; Four Interrogations by Maximillian Singh Gill; Queens of the Realm by Ian August; Roleplay by Nick Myles; The Catch by Tom Harvey; The Soldier by Chris Paxton; True Grit by Judy Upton