The Pembrokeshire based, Pint-sized Plays competition is gearing up for its 2013 performances.   Once again, the number of entries in the competition exceeded previous years, with many more coming in from Australia, New Zealand and the US as well as Wales and the rest of the UK. 

The six winners and four runners up are now in rehearsal ready to be performed as part of the Tenby Festival.  Six pubs in Tenby will be hosting the plays over two nights,  Monday September 23rd and Tuesday September 24th.  

It is hoped that selected plays will also be performed in other pubs in the county too. And then, as in previous years, all ten plays will compete at 4U in Fishguard at the Pint-sized Plays Script Slam on September 28th, where the audience get to vote for their favourite script and there’s a ‘Pint Pot’ awarded to the winner and a half-pint for the runner up as well as prizes for the best performances.

This year there will be an additional ‘theatre’ performance at the Small World Theatre in Cardigan on October 5th.  Called Pint-sized World , this will feature all ten plays in one show with a bar and cabaret style seating.

Pint-sized Plays have begun publishing the plays too. The first volume, which has 20 plays from the first four years, has just been published and are available for other theatre companies to perform as well as being ideal for drama schools and colleges to use. Already some of the plays have been taken up.  One play, ‘In-Sex’, was performed at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival by a Brighton theatre company and a further six plays were performed by an Oxford company. Performances aren’t limited to the UK either. A successful New Zealand version of Pint-sized Plays began earlier in the year and plans another festival for 2014. Pembrokeshire-born Pint-sized Plays it seems just keep on growing! More information: info@pintsizedplays.org.uk

'' Twins'' by Stuart Crafton . The Winning Script in the 2012 Pint-sized Plays competition