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To celebrate the anniversary of the First Folio, the Royal Shakespeare Company launched a nationwide playwriting initiative, 37 Plays, to seek out the country's most promising new writers. The 2,000 submissions were whittled down to 37 which the RSC believes capture the soul of our age, in honour of Shakespeare's own 37.