• Source: The Observer Plays

The Observer Plays is a 1958 collection of seven plays edited by Kenneth Tynan. The plays were commended in the famous 1957 playwriting competition organised by Tynan when at the Observer newspaper.
The plays were:

Moon on a Rainbow Shawl by Errol John
Sit on the Earth by Gurney Campbell and Daphne Athas
The Sport of My Mad Mother by Ann Jellicoe
A Resounding Tinkle by N.F. Simpson
The Shifting Heart by Richard Beynon
All My Own Work by Romilly Cavan
Four Men by Andre Davis




Background


In 1956 the London Observer newspaper held a competition for the best new stage play with a prize of 500 pounds. The competition was held in part to respond to allegations there were no new exciting plays in British theatre, and was run by Kenneth Tynan, the newspaper's drama critic. There were over 2,000 entries. According to Tynan, the submitted plays fell into six main groups: the H bomb, the Hungarian Uprising, Australia, the "colour problem", "angry young men" and poetry. The competition's support of Australian playwriting was notable at a time when very few Australian written plays were professionally produced on stage.
The judges were Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Peter Hall, and Michael Barry.




= Competition winners

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The winner of the competition (prize £500) was Moon on a Rainbow Shawl by Errol John. Second prize (£200) went to Sit on the Earth by Gurney Campbell and Daphne Athas.
Third prize (£100 each) went to:

The Sport of My Mad Mother by Ann Jellicoe
A Resounding Tinkle by N.F. Simpson
The Shifting Heart by Richard Beynon.
Honourable mentions (£50 each):

All My Own Work by Romilly Cavan
Four Men by Andre Davis
Other plays that made the final twenty five finalists included:

Angel in My Eye by David Shelley Nicol
The Bastard Country by Anthony Coburn
Boy with a Meataxe by Ray Rigby
The Breaking Wave by Joseph Taylor
Brixton 55 by R.A. Taylor Cole
The Edge by R. Dellar
The Life of the Party by Ray Mathew
The Lilywhite Boys by Harry Cookson
Marriage a la Carte by Ronald Duncan
The Palace of Art by Mary Rose Duncan
Swamp Creatures by Alan Seymour
The Wounded Boy by Jeremy Kingston
Yesterday's Children by George Crowther




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