International Playwriting Competition 2012 winners announced

BBC World Service and the British Council, in partnership with Commonwealth Writers, have announced the winners of the 23rd International Playwriting Competition.

The Fisherman by Janet Veronica Morrison, a Jamaican, with direction coming from - BBC World Service, Saturday 13 and Sunday 14, April 2013

In a sleepy, Jamaican, fishing village, Grandma and Grandpa find themselves unexpectedly having to bring up their teenage grandchildren, Jevaughan and Latoya, after their only daughter has left the island.

The teenagers feel out of place in their new quiet surroundings, but while Jevaughan is more or less resigned to his fate, his wilder sister, Latoya, has a plan to escape. Her rebellion, however, is to trigger a series of horrifying events as she goes missing, leaving her family to search for her. Their lives become embroiled in the growing sex-trade industry which has engulfed the northeast coast of the island: a blot on the district which, until now, most people have tried to ignore.

As the village fishermen rise to the occasion in an effort to protect their community, it becomes clear that not everyone can be trusted. The results of their attempt are to change the teenagers - and the village - forever.

The judges described Morrison's play, the winner of the English as a first language category, as "an ambitious story which came to life instantly."