Winner announced: Summer Shorts 2025

2025 marks the third year that the SLT Summer Shorts have benefitted from a kind bequest, which specifically provided the funds for a cash prize for an annual play-writing competition.

After audience voting in 2023 for the Sport-themed plays that year, Charlotte Benstead won with her funny and poignant monologue, Mr Tuesday.

The vote last year for the Storm-themed plays went by contrast to an ensemble piece in the form of the touching and funny family drama, Thursday by Rob Tavernier.

In a break from the coincidental trend of the winning works being titled with days-of-the-week, the vote winner of this year’s Scale-themed plays is our surprise mini-musical outing, A Sense Of Scale, by James Taverner, performed by Marissa Ferrara with James himself accompanying on the keys.

We would like to congratulate James Taverner (who’ll be receiving his modest cash prize shortly), and also celebrate the entire programme of Shorts, which once again played to sold-out houses. We’re very proud of the massive team effort that brought this years plays to the stage; a collaboration on a large scale you might say.

If you’re missing the Shorts fun already, a brief for submissions for Summer Shorts 2026 will be announced in the first part of next year, with auditions to follow on.

Kelly, Tom & Guy

SLT Summer Shorts Team 2025