The curtain may be down but some of the Black Box Creatives participants have been living up to the name.
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Sixteen-year-old Lorna Mitchell and 23-year-old Kirra Hampson have been named the Challenge Champions in the Black Box Creatives' Playwriting Challenge.
The challenge started in late April as a way for the participants to step outside their comfort zone.
Lorna's script, Band of Totality, explores friendship and teen values as a group of misfits compete in a battle of the bands competition.
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"The playwriting challenge has given me so much more confidence with script writing and being able to articulate my ideas through theatre," she said.
"It was amazing to see how much I have learnt in such a short space of time."
The challenge was undertaken with the support of coordinator Andy Carolan, alongside mentors Val Clark and Donna Spillane.
"Donna really taught me to trust myself when writing because we can always go back and edit later," Lorna said.
"I began so uncertain about what I was doing and felt maybe my ideas were strange or invalid but Donna's advice to just start writing really changed all of that."
Black Box Creatives plans to showcase several sneak-peak recordings of a new work over the coming months via their Facebook page.
