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Democracy Chronicles

Announcing The Seven Dictators Play-writing Competition

by Mahmoud Mansi - January 3, 2014

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Seven Dictators Play Competition

Submissions are Open for: Individual Writers, Individual Acting-Teams, Acting-Teams in Schools, Universities and Theaters

by Mahmoud Mansi with assistance from Adrian Tawfik (Updated 1-6)

The World manages to surprise us with the unexpected, on the personal, political, ecological, economical, artistic and philosophical level.

Earth has been transforming rapidly, especially throughout the past five years, and these transformations are getting faster towards unknown destinies.

Many competitions and programs focus on the making of Democracy, Justice, and Equality. However, in this one we are focusing on the complete opposite extreme. We strongly believe that both sides of the coin, the light and the darkness, reality and fiction, do impact us strongly as philosophical artists.

We, the “The Forgotten Writers Foundation” from Egypt and “Democracy Chronicles” from New York, are honored to collaborate together to release “The Seven Dictators Play-writing Competition”:

Seven Dictators Guidelines:

  • You can submit your work in two ways:

Either as: An individual writer with your name.

Or as: A theater-acting team, with the team/theater’s name, and the name of the team leader/representative.

  • Write a play with a three-act structure ranging from 20 to 35 pages using seven characters of dictators that existed/still exist in the 21st Century, in any possible theme you may wish to put/gather them in.
  • During the play, the playwright is free to be creative in any possible way (no limitations) to create their piece.
  • The playwright is allowed to add up to three more anonymous characters (not real existing people).
  • We expect the writers to reflect and discuss problems in our world through the chosen dictators, and anticipate the dictators’ feelings, thoughts and plans. We expect them to discuss problems that might have happened, still existing, and/or will exist.
  • The idea of having seven dictators, is a way for highlighting the idea as a global phenomena, and not only focusing on one country. So we expect the writer to be diversified in intelligent in choosing the characters, and making the blend.
  • You are free to choose any genre of horror, fantasy, politics, romance, or any other one.
  • Dictators can be people who are non-politicians too. They can be actually in any field. Most Dictators as commonly defined by the society, are tyrants, but actually not all dictators are tyrants. However, we expect you in the very beginning, in the introduction of your play, to write two lines about each dictator you chose, in case he/she is not a very well recognized character worldwide.
  • We expect the script to be unexpected, powerful, philosophical, and artistic, with sophisticated ideas, ideologies, beliefs, and settings. We simply ask you as the playwright to create a masterpiece in the realm of literature, something that was never written before, an invention!
  • The winning plays will be published in a book under the name of the competition title, and some entries may be performed on stage.
  • Do not mention your name inside the word document due to judging purposes.
  • Please include in the email message these details; Your (Home Country, Resident Country, Address, Mobile Number, Profession, And a Bio of 100-150 Words)
  • The deadline for all submissions is January 1, 2015.

 

Judging:

• The winning plays will be chosen on the degree of creativity and the novelty of the idea. Strange and unusual ideas are strongly recommended.

• The depth of the text, characters, places, scene etc.

• The metaphors and similes used.

• The beauty of the writing style and dialogues.

• The ending of the play and how powerful it is.

We strongly believe in you, we believe in this competition, and we believe you can be super inspired by what happened/happens/might happen in our world.

About the Organizers of Seven Dictators:

Democracy Chronicles

See our About Us page and also take a look at our team of authors at our Author Central. We are also working on a documentary that needs support from our readers. Read more about the documentary at UPDATE: Democracy Chronicles’ Documentary Filming.

The Forgotten Writers Foundation

See Forgotten Writer’s 2012/2013 play-writing competition results for “Women’s Domination” and the 2011/2012 competition results book publication that collected the submitted plays about ” The Resurrection of Ancient Egypt”.

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About Mahmoud Mansi

Mahmoud Mansi writes for DC from Egypt and is a founding member of the Forgotten Writers Foundation. He is the author of "A Journey from Darkness to Light: Native Literature; A Novel of Passion, Art, Love, Science, Spirituality, Nature, Meditation, Survival, and what's beyond all that...," and winner of the Spanish “A Sea of Words” Literary Award in 2010.

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  1. Michael Gural-Maiello says

    January 4, 2014 at 6:32 pm

    Endless possibilities here… particularly since what constitutes a dictator is debatable. Putin? Likely, I say. The Chinese government? Not in a traditional sense but practically so…

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  2. Judy Klass says

    December 24, 2014 at 10:59 pm

    I can’t find another way to contact you. I wanted to ask for some clarification about the 7 dictators play. It says it should be about dictators who existed/still exist in the 21st century. Does “existed” apply only to this century? Could a person, for example, write a play about a series of Russian rulers, starting with Peter the Great and ending up with Putin (to the degree that he is and is not a dictator)?

    Thanks —

    Judy

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    • Adrian Tawfik says

      December 25, 2014 at 11:44 am

      Thanks for the message Judy. I hope you get this in time. You can definitely submit the play you suggested! Russia’s rulers are endlessly fascinating as a subject. Remember, our deadline has been extended so that all plays are due on February 1st. Hopefully this gives you enough time! Send me a message if you have questions. I’m gonna put up a contact form on our website very soon!

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