For writers
Information on competitions, script editing and sending us your work
We cannot accept unsolicited scripts but if you are a writer and would like us to read your work and give you constructive feedback to help your script’s development, our script feedback service is for you.
At ‘Owdyado Theatre, we specialise is theatre scripts, rather than screenplays or novels. Our focus is on helping playwrights craft bold, performance‑ready stories for the stage. Whether you’re developing your first short play or a full‑length production, our script development service provides personalised, detailed, and professional feedback from working theatre artists.
From time to time, we also run playwriting competitions celebrating new voices. If you’re an emerging writer looking to refine your work or hear it read by professional actors, our script reading and development sessions are designed just for you.
Our prices are as follows:
Scripts under 30 minutes: £100.00
Scripts under 70 minutes: £150.00
Full length play scripts: £200.00
What it involves:
We will read your script, taking detailed notes on key areas like these:
Structure: Ensuring your story has a strong backbone—clear acts, rising tension, and satisfying turning points that keep the audience hooked.
Character development: Building multi-dimensional characters with believable motivations, flaws, and arcs, so their choices feel authentic and drive emotional investment.
Dialogue: Crafting natural, character-specific voices that reveal personality, advance the plot, and avoid clunky exposition—dialogue that sounds real when read aloud.
Theme: Clarifying the core message or "heart" of your script, weaving it consistently through plot and characters for deeper resonance.
Motifs: Spotting and strengthening recurring images, symbols, or ideas that add layers and reinforce your story's impact without feeling forced.
Pacing: Balancing fast/slow moments for maximum tension and flow, eliminating drags or rushes that can lose readers.
These cover the most common draft-stage issues, but if anything else stands out (e.g., world-building or tone), we'll flag it too. Then we report back via a clear written report or online meeting—whichever you prefer. It's straightforward and tailored to make your script shine!
Additionally, we offer a live script read-through and feedback service via Zoom if you would like to hear your work read aloud by professional actors. Prices will depend on how many actors you require. Please contact us for a quote.
Script reading/development
Testimonials
“I’m really grateful for the opportunity to create and then properly examine an initial concept - something I usually shy away from or get scared of quite early on.
You can rest assured I’ll make good use of Owdyado’s script editing service! ”
“I can’t thank you enough for such an eye-opening few days at the Writer’s Block. I really benefitted from the way you spread out the exercises and project work. I was very much convinced I didn’t have a single idea in me, and by the end of the week I had a drafted script! ”
“The examples and the discussion of structure were very helpful and thanks for the extra information in the email attachments. The course led us through the creative process well and achieved its aim of our each generating a piece of writing. ”
About Dan and Charlotte
Charlotte and Dan are both playwrights and have written for ‘Owdyado Theatre, Hall For Cornwall, Near-ta Theatre, and The Minack Theatre between them. Charlotte holds a BA in Theatre Studies and English Literature, and Dan has recently explored prose writing through a Developing your Creative Practice grant with Arts Council England (this piece is now on tour as Go ‘Away’ Cat). Both Charlotte and Dan are occasional guest lecturers in script-writing at Falmouth University. They have both run writing workshops at The Writers Block’ in Redruth. They are both
Contact us at submissions@owdyado.co.uk for more information about these services.