The
Lysicrates
Prize 2019

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You help choose
the winner

in Australia's most innovative
playwriting contest.
You help choose
the winner

in Australia's most innovative
playwriting contest.
You help choose
the winner

in Australia's most innovative
playwriting contest.
You help choose
the winner

in Australia's most innovative
playwriting contest.
You help choose
the winner

in Australia's most innovative
playwriting contest.

Theatre for all

It was free in ancient Athens and it’s FREE in Sydney. After 2500 years, a world first – you, the audience, voting for the winner in a play competition. No panel, no artistic director, just three finalists, three brilliant new Australian first acts, and you, casting your vote. The winning playwright receives $15,000 to help finish their play!

Theatre reflects our Australian identity. Come and shape it yourself.

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The 2017
Lysicrates Prize

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The 2018
Lysicrates Prize

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The 2019
Lysicrates Prize

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THE

MARTIN-LYSICRATES PRIZE

The Martin-Lysicrates Prize is a competition for plays written for adolescents. Talented Australian playwrights have submitted the first act of a brand new play to the Prize and the three finalists’ entries will receive a staged reading.

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