This festival finished on Tuesday 04 April 1978, and this page is being kept for archival purposes only.

National Student Drama Festival (NSDF) 1978

Durham - No EUTC Shows Submitted

Dates

Tuesday 28 March - Tuesday 04 April 1978

Venue

NSDF

Author

N/A

Description

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

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

Source

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