So you think you can write a play? Try taking on the toughest deadline in the biz at the Fringe’s annual 24-Hour Playwriting Contest. Entrants are given just one day to start and finish a full-length script, so a coffee-fuelled all-nighter is pretty much the only way to win. To counteract head-starts, the contest runners supply four seemingly random components that must appear somewhere in the play. The contest began yesterday (Wednesday, July 1) at 6 pm in the McAuslan Beer Tent, and the winner, selected by a panel of judges, is given a staged reading July 12 at 9:30 pm at the Fringe Club.
