National Student Drama Festival (NSDF) 1979

Southhampton

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Shows:

Selected Student Productions

Anna-Luse by David Mowat,
Hull University Drama Department

Christie in Love by Howard Brenton,
Newcastle University Theatre Society

The Contrivance (ns) by Tony Browne,
New University of Ulster Drama Society

The Day Centre (n) by David Farnsworth,
Bretton Hall College

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams,
Dramatic Society, Grey College, Durham University

Gotcha by Barrie Keeffe,
Dramatic Society, University College, Swansea

Ivan (ns) by Anthony Clark (based on Tolstoy),
Manchester Umbrella Theatre Company (Buzz Goodbody Student Director Award (joint), Anthony Clark)

Magnificence by Howard Brenton,
Cambridge University Mummers

Marriage by Gogol (tr Bella Costello)
Manchester Umbrella Theatre Company

Mr Black’s Poems of Innocence (n) by D M Thomas,
Southampton University Theatre Group

No Pasaran by David Holman,
Drama Society, St Mary’s College, Twickenham

Oedipus the King by Sophocles (tr Anthony Burgess),
Warwick University Drama Society

Riders to the Sea by J M Synge,
Leeds University Workshop Theatre (Buzz Goodbody Student Director Award, (joint), Patricia Curran)

Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet,
Edinburgh University Theatre Company

Stageplay (ns) by Oliver Muirhead,
Edinburgh University Theatre Company

Tartan (n) by K W Ross,
Cambridge University Mummers (Sunday Times Playwriting Award)

They Shoot Doughnuts, Don’t They? (ns) by Trevor Cooper & Robert Paterson,
Peachville Productions, Drama Studio, London

Toys of Age (ns) by Richard Lewis & John Godber,
Bretton Hall College. Also broadcast live by Southern Television. nstc

Valley of the Ashes (ns d)
Dunce Theatre, Nene College

Woyzeck by Georg Buchner (tr Malcolm Griffiths),
Warwick University Drama Society

INVITATION PERFORMANCE

This End Up (n) by Kjartan Poskitt,
ex- Durham University (nc) (1978),

Had I Been Alone
Stephen Lavell, UCL,

Sponsors: The Sunday Times, Samuel French, Granada Television, Southern Television, Southern Tourist Board/English Tourist Board, Anglia Television, London Weekend Television, Scottish Television, Southern Arts, Hallmark Cards & IBM;
lo: Steve Poulter (Michael Imison Student Administrator Award) & Kim Dent;
td: Nigel Coopey

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