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Joining Sword and Pen, Babes With Blades' international
playwriting competition, was launched in 2005 to increase
the number of quality scripts featuring fighting roles for
women. (View FAQ) The
inaugural theme was proposed by Fight Master David Woolley,
inspired by the print of Emile Bayard's "An Affair
of Honor" that hung on his living room wall. Each entry
to the contest was required to incorporate the moment depicted
in the print: a duel between two women on a secluded country
road. The competition netted the Babes over 40 entries,
from locales ranging from their native Chicago to South
Africa and New Zealand. Submissions were of such quality
that Babes With Blades plans to publish the winning plays
and the best of the runners-up in an anthology. The
two winning one-acts, Chicagoan Byron Hatfield's Mrs.
Dire's House of Crumpets and Solutions and New Zealander
Tony Wolf's Satisfaction, were staged at the Viaduct
Theater, April 7 - May 14, 2006, under the title An Affair
of Honor. Each playwright received the Ballantyne Award,
which carried with it a $500 stipend.
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