This festival finished on Tuesday 04 April 1978, and this page is being kept for archival purposes only.
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I know the festival started on the 28th, but not sure how far it ran.
Shows:
Special Charity Performance
Acting Shakespeare, devised & performed by Ian McKellen: proceeds donated to NSDF Selected Student Productions
Abide With Me by Barrie Keeffe,
Leeds University Union Theatre Group. nstc
Blood Sports by David Edgar,
Warwick University Drama Society
The Burning of Carthage (ns d) ad from a story by Ivor Benjamin & Jeremy Monson,
ADC, Cambridge University (Howard Davies Conditional Prize). Reworked version presented Edinburgh Fringe
Cycles (ns d)
LAMDA (dir Edwina Dorman)
Do Not Tap on the Glass (ns d)
Manchester University Drama Department (Kenneth Pearson Prize)
Endgame by Samuel Beckett,
Bedford College, London University
Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton,
Warwick University Drama Society
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen,
Queen’s College, Oxford
If One Green Bottle by Bill Anderson,
Aberdeen University Dramatic Society (The Almost Free Theatre’s Naftali Yavin Prize, Bill Anderson)
Muggins (ns improvisation)
Bosworth College, Leicester (The Inter-Action Community Theatre Prize). nstc
Old Man/Telephone (ns d)
Manchester University Drama Department
Saved, by Edward Bond,
Durham University Theatre
Sherlock’s Last Case by Matthew Lang,
Manchester Umbrella Theatre Company
The White Devil by John Webster,
Newcastle University Theatre Society
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee,
Trent Drama Workshop, Middlesex. nstc
Invited Productions
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (in Romanian) and Avram Iancu (n) by Mihai Manutiu,
Institute of Theatrical and Cinematographic Art, Bucharest, Romania
ISPC, Terri Wagener (USA), Renascence
Sponsors: The Sunday Times, Granada Television, Hallmark Cards, IBM, London Weekend Television, Thames Television, Anglia Television, Guinness, Pitman Publishing & Margaret Ramsay;
lo: Chris Fisher;
td: Ken Hall