Emilie Collyer’s The Grateful Shade is shortlisted for Patrick White Playwrights Award

Emilie Collyer’s The Grateful Shade is shortlisted for Patrick White Playwrights Award

Emilie Collyer’s play The Grateful Shade has been shortlisted for the prestigious Sydney Theatre Company Patrick White Playwright’s Award.

A poetic, satirical allegory about the project of colonisation, the play follows two women who drink from the elixir of eternal life and then must keep deciding how to spend their endless days.

The play is shortlisted along with five other works. The winning play attracts a prize of $7,500 and will be announced on 4 May followed by a script reading at STC. The award is given each year along with the Patrick White Fellowship for an established Australian playwright.

Emilie is a playwright and poet in her second year of a creative practice PhD where she is researching feminist creative practice and questions of success, failure and value. This is the second time a play of hers has been shortlisted for this award.

Congratulations, Emilie.

Words wrangled by Peta Murray. Banner image by Frederik Löwer. 

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12 April 2021

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