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Bookends by FFWD Staff At the threshold they abandon their books, their tape players, their real identities. Now, for one full orbit, The Centre is their home. After the Ordeal, they will face the Judges. Now they choose their adopted names, now they cling to the single page of notes that guides them. The Keepers give them cots, food and drink. All the while the Judges await. The Keepers provide the necessary tools. Premature departure is forbidden. If this kind of situation sounds like your idea of fun, you have two choices. One, arrange to be abducted by aliens. Two, enter the Hallmark Tubulars 24-Hour Playwriting Competition. As part of PanCanadian PlayRites '99, Alberta Theatre Projects will host about 20 lucky candidates on February 5 and 6, at the PanCanadian Petroleum Training Centre. This time it could be you who’s trained. Trained to wring the last reluctant drops of your imagination onto the page, or screen, in one desperate twisted weekend. (How hard can it be? You can watch Joe Fiennes writing Romeo and Juliet in about two days at your local Gigaplex.) Who knows, you could end up with a play. Or just a good story to tell at your local pub. If you've ever left the theatre muttering, "I could have written that in a day and done a better job," here's your chance to prove it. It's gonna cost you $24 bucks, only a dollar for each hour of your voluntary captivity. Oh, you can leave early, but you forfeit the right to be judged. (And isn't that what you long for, just like the abductees? To be chosen, to be probed, to pass through the fires of judgment and return transformed? Well, you might.) The fee and entry need to be in by January 29, so contact ATP right now and get your application in the pipeline.

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