This festival finished on Tuesday 31 January 1961, and this page is being kept for archival purposes only.
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)
Sponsors: The Sunday Times;
lo: Brian MacArthur
