This festival finished on Tuesday 31 January 1961, and this page is being kept for archival purposes only.

National Student Drama Festival (NSDF) 1961

Leeds - No EUTC Show

Dates

Sunday 01 January - Tuesday 31 January 1961

Venue

NSDF

Author

N/A

Description

If you are able to provide any more information, please contact the Archivist.

Not sure about the dates, but know it was somewhere in January and ran for 6 days.

From 1961 onwards, short plays competed, for the NUS Plaque.

Shows

Auto-da-fe by Tennessee Williams,
Guild Theatre Group, Birmingham University

Cats of Egypt by T B Morris,
Nottinghamshire County Training College Dramatic Society

The Dice (n) by Forbes Bramble,
London University Drama Society

The Great God Brown by Eugene O’Neill,
Guild Theatre Group, Birmingham University

A Kind of Nothing (ns) by Bill Morrison,
Queen’s University Belfast Dramatic Society

The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky,
University College London Dramatic Society

A Man Named John (ns) by Keith Miles,
University Players Dramatic Society, University College, Oxford

A Penny for a Song, by John Whiting,
University of Bristol Dramatic Society

The Proposal by Anton Chekhov,
Guild Theatre Group, Birmingham University

Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance by John Arden,
Union Theatre Group, Leeds University (Sunday Times Drama Trophy)

Their Souls in Hell (n) by Gerard Galloway,
Hull University Dramatic Society

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett,
Liverpool University Dramatic Society

The Zoo Story by Edward Albee,
The Shirley Society, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (NUS One-Act Plaque)

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