This festival finished on Saturday 12 April 1975, and this page is being kept for archival purposes only.
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Selected Student Productions
Act Without Words by Samuel Beckett,
Edinburgh University Theatre Company
Albert’s Bridge by Tom Stoppard,
Imperial College Dramatic Society
Backlog (n) by Joe Richards,
Hull University Drama Department
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird (ns) by Chris Hauke (ad from Kafka),
New College of Speech & Drama
The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco,
Drama Department, University College, Aberystwyth
Chicago by Sam Shepard,
Nottingham University Drama Society
Chase (ns d)
Framework Theatre, 2nd Year Theatre Design students, Central School of Art & Design
The Franklin’s Tale (ns ad by the company from Chaucer),
Wall Hall College, Aldenham
God, Herbert, Donne and the Devil (ns) by Michael Boyd,
Edinburgh University Theatre Company (Kevin Laffan Mystery Award, Michael Boyd)
Gum and Goo by Howard Brenton,
Dunce Theatre, Northampton College of Education
Interview by Jean Claude Van Itallie,
Coopers School, Kent
It’s Called the Sugar Plum by Israel Horovitz,
Manchester Polytechnic Theatre Society
The Labyrinth by Fernando Arrabal,
Dublin University Players
Le Piege de Meduse by Satie,
Musik Circus, Keele University
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman,
Queen’s University Belfast Drama Society
Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss, Geoffrey Skelton & Adrian Mitchell,
Arts Festival, Theatre Group & Light Opera Soc, Leeds University
The Marriage by Witold Gombrowicz,
Bristol University Drama Society
Music Mimes (ns d)
Clarendon College of Further Education
Of the Farm by John Updike (n, ad by Joe Richards),
Hull University Drama Department
Oh! Mr Asquith (ns d)
Wall Hall College, Aldenham
People Are Living There by Athol Fugard,
Bristol University Drama Department
Prufrock (n) by Edwina Dorman,
The Drama Studio, London
Sandpaper (n) by David Savage,
Good Words Group, Keele University
Sequel to Jeso by Malcolm Purkey,
Consortium of Performing Arts, Keele University
Theatre Piece by John Cage,
Musik Circus, Keele University
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett,
English Drama Society, Bangor Normal College
Who, Me? by W Gordon-Smith,
Edinburgh University Theatre Company
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard,
Dramatic Society, University College, London (ss)
Invited Productions
The Man and the Myth (n, d from the work of Dylan Thomas)
Revunions, Bristol University
The Driver’s Seat (n) by Una Ponsonby (ad from Muriel Spark),
The Barnstormers, Turku, Finland (nc)
The Supper (d)
Comuna Teatro de Pesquisa, Lisbon, Portugal
Sponsors: The Sunday Times;
lo: David Cooke & John Parry;
td: Paul Adams
