National Student Drama Festival (NSDF) 1971

Southampton

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Shows

Selected Student Productions

Before and After (ns) by David Farrall (based on The Seagull by Anton Chekhov),
The Waifs, Dundee University

Charles the Martyr (n) by Snoo Wilson,
University of East Anglia Drama Society

Comus by John Milton (ns ad by Martin Pennock),
Buckland Players, University Hall, Berkshire

Grass (ns) co-ordinated by Andrew Wistreich,
Grass Roots, York University

The Junior Bleeders (n) by James Robson,
Bretton Hall Drama Society

King Herod Explains (n) by Conor Cruise O’Brien,
Edinburgh University Drama Society

The Mirror and the Star (ns) by Paul Swain,
St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School Drama Society (Albion Productions Award)

Paradise Lost (ad from Milton),
Keele Drama Group

The Party by Slawomir Mrozek (tr Nicholas Benthell),
Southampton University Theatre Group

Tommy by Graham Devlin (ns ad from The Who’s music),
Experimental Theatre Company, Oxford University

The Tragical History of Dr Faustus (n ad from Marlowe),
I M Marsh College of Physical Education

Xerxes by Andre Benedetto,
University of Essex Theatre Arts Society

Guest Productions

John Ford’s Cuban Missile Crisis (ns d with Albert Hunt),
Bradford Art College Theatre Group

Dr Strangebrew’s Plastic Hand (n),
The Welfare State

Offending the Audience by Peter Handke,
The Other Company (dir Naftali Yavin)

Superman by Pip Simmons and the group,
The Pip Simmons Theatre Group

Sunday Times Playwriting Award, Gabriel Josipovici, Evidence of Intimacy

Sponsors: The Sunday Times;
lo: Vicki Goodwin

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