The Polish Centre of ASSITEJ is the main organizer of this Competition for Young Playwrights. It has a long-standing tradition and it has been organized every two years since 1984.

Started in 1986 and organized by Zbigniew Rudziński, the competition aims to add new plays to the repertory of theatres working for young audiences. There have been two international editions so far. The play competition is an integral project in the policy of the Children’s Art Centre of Poznan and aims to inspire and promote contemporary playwriting

Playmarket is putting a special effort into gathering and co-ordinating the best of all plays that fall into this category, from adaptations of fairy tales for tiny children, to plays written by teachers especially for the classroom, to the most searing explorations of adolescence written by teenagers themselves - with no limits on length or cast size. They aim to encourage strong, original and inventive writing for young people both from those new to writing for the young, and the experienced.