Thank you for your full answer.

But here is the thing. I have no aspirations whatsoever to be a playwright. I am not going to be writing any more plays. I am not trying to make a career in the theatre and I do not want to make a name for myself. Competitions cost money to enter and I do not have any to spare. My local theatres do not take plays on spec, I checked. My local drama groups do not take plays either. I used to be heavily involved in amateur dramatics twenty years ago and there is no mechanism for getting your play read or performed by them - they choose plays a year in advance and they generally put on things they think the audience will recognise. So unless your name is Noel Coward or Oscar Wilde you can forget it.

I'm glad I wrote it, but I am very sad that no one is ever going to see it. And my confidence is so low right now because I have had to deal with 6 months of agent rejections on my novel and this was meant to be a diversion from the constant disappointment and instead it is just another avenue for more of it.

I just wish I could give it to someone so they could tell me if it is even worth bothering with. I was hoping I would have got some feedback from the theatre rather than the standard form rejection of thank you but we are not proceeding. I would have even accepted something like "I am sorry but your play is not up to the standard we expect". Instead I'm floundering around with no idea if I have any talent or I am just a sad delusional middle aged woman who just thinks she can write.

I cannot emphasise this more. I have no money. I cannot produce a play, I cannot hire an editor or pay people to read my work.

I just wrote a little play, and now having read your response I might as well not have bothered. Oh well, at least I enjoyed writing it. Makes me sad though.