{"id":6966,"date":"2019-07-07T16:37:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T15:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/?p=6966"},"modified":"2019-07-07T16:37:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T15:37:34","slug":"the-bill-cashmore-award-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/?p=6966","title":{"rendered":"The Bill Cashmore Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lyric.co.uk\/young-lyric\/the-bill-cashmore-award\/\">https:\/\/lyric.co.uk\/young-lyric\/the-bill-cashmore-award\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-2019-07-07-at-16.33.05-1024x280.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-2019-07-07-at-16.33.05-1024x280.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-2019-07-07-at-16.33.05-300x82.png 300w, https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-2019-07-07-at-16.33.05-768x210.png 768w, https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-2019-07-07-at-16.33.05-640x175.png 640w, https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-2019-07-07-at-16.33.05-1280x350.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-2019-07-07-at-16.33.05.png 1490w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first year of the Bill Cashmore Award in 2019 has been given to Eve and Elin to develop their show titled\u00a0<em>Screwdriver<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eve and Elin demonstrated a strong artistic and compelling idea that feels relevant and in the ethos of the Lyric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Sasha\u2019s words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I couldn\u2019t have hoped for a more suitable winner of very first Bill Cashmore Award than Eve and Elin.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>They were chosen from an extraordinarily strong field but they, and their play \u2018Screwdriver\u2019, perfectly embody the spirit of what we are hoping to achieve in setting up this Award in Bill\u2019s name. Not only do they have a great idea and the artistic talent and skill to develop it into something extraordinary, but they have the same hard working ethos, passion and commitment to theatre that Bill had. Bill spanned the roles of writer, director and performer and was best known for his offbeat observational humour, his openness to new learning, his curiosity about people and the world, and for his compassion and generosity. In Eve and Elin we have found two creatives who in person and in their work seem to embody something of that wonderful spirit.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Award will give Eve and Elin a year\u2019s worth of space and resources to develop&nbsp;<em>Screwdriver<\/em>&nbsp;into a fully-fledged production which will be performed in the Lyric\u2019s Studio Theatre headlining the Evolution Festival in March 2020. This will include Masterclasses with Lyric Associate Artists and Award contributors, technical support, a commissioning fee and budget for crew and design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/lyric.co.uk\/young-lyric\/the-bill-cashmore-award\/ The first year of the Bill Cashmore Award in 2019 has been given to Eve and Elin to develop their show titled\u00a0Screwdriver. Eve and Elin demonstrated a strong artistic and compelling idea that feels relevant and in the ethos of the Lyric. In Sasha\u2019s words: I couldn\u2019t have hoped for a more suitable winner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6968,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions\/6968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billcashmore.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}