A talent showcase for new writers and actors: The Play Offs

The bookshop is buzzing despite the late hour. Just over a dozen new playwrights are witnessing the launch of their work in print. The three volumes of ACTSwansea – The Plays are a culmination of years of hard graft by the writers who have been nurtured by playwrighting courses and a new X-factor style competition for new writers. Becky Land finds out how they're still writing in Swansea, even if
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The bookshop in the seaside village is buzzing despite the late hour. Just over a dozen new playwrights are witnessing the launch of their work in print. The three volumes of ACTSwansea – The Plays are a culmination of years of hard graft by the writers who have been nurtured by playwrighting courses and a new X-factor style competition for new writers in Swansea.

“We’ve all been Binda’d,” said Joy Tucker, a retired journalist who has seen her 15 minute play Any Other Business performed at the Play Offs, as they are known. The phrase comes from the man behind the books and the Play Offs, Binda Singh.

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Becky Land
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Becky Land has been writing and broadcasting for 15 years. After working for the BBC for 12 years she now writes for websites and business and lifestyle magazines as well as offering PR training to SMEs. In her spare time she is trying to stand up on her surf board and is relearning the oboe.