National Student Drama Festival (NSDF) 1980

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Shows:

Selected Student Productions

The Android Circuit by Tom McGrath,
Glasgow University Student Theatre Group

The Caretaker by Harold Pinter,
Durham University Theatre Everyman

(anonymous),
Royal Holloway College, University of London

*Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (n, ad ),
Royal Scottish Academyof Music & Drama

I Was A Teenage Prat (ns) by Duncan Gould,
Southampton University Theatre Group (The Almost Free Theatre’s Naftali Yavin Prize (joint), Duncan Gould)

*Kafka’s Last Request by Eric Prince,
Bretton Hall College (Sunday Times Playwriting Award)

*Knuckle by David Hare,
Dragon Theatre Company, Welsh College of Music & Drama

*Milktrane (ns) by Andy Maw & James Hampton,
University of York Dramatic Society. nstc

*Noonday Demons by Peter Barnes,
Dramatic Society Grey College, Durham University

The Pearl by John Steinbeck (ns, ad by Jane Prowse),
Green Room Club, Hull University (Buzz Goodbody Student Director Award, Jane Prowse)

*Potter’s Wheel (ns) by Shaun Prendergast,
Bretton Hall College (The Almost Free Theatre’s Naftali Yavin Prize: joint)

The Raft of the Medusa by Georg Kaiser,
Thimble Theatre, Manchester University

The Story of Sister Holy Cross of the Blessed Valley Who Poisoned Twenty-Seven Arabs (ns d)
Trinity & All Saints College, Leeds

Sylvia Plath by Barry Kyle,
Swansea University Drama Society

Tira by Michael Weller,
All Saints College, Middlesex Polytechnic

Two Kinds of Angel by David Edgar,
Glasgow University Student Theatre Group

Invited Productions

Privitus, Privitorum, Privet Hedge (n) by Angie Farrow,
National Student Theatre Company (nc)

The Sheerealist Platform (n) by Neil Hornick,

The Phantom Captain (nc)

The Happy Prince & other stories (n d),

Apron Theatre (nc)

The Boy’s Own Story (n) by Peter Flannery,
RAT Theatre (nc)

Invited Fringe Shows

Delight in Disorder,
Anagram, Bristol (nc)

Stockhausen’s Ylem,
Bradford University (nc)

First NSDF Coarse Acting Competition Adjudicator Michael Green. Winner:*The Road to Bethlehem, by Kjartan Poskitt (Michael Green Coarse Acting Award, Anne Peart)

• These seven plays, with Angie Farrow’s Privitus, Privitorum, Privet Hedge (NSTC) transferred shortly after the 1980 Festival to the Old Vic, London, for a fortnight given in gratitude for the NSDF’s 25 years’ service to theatre.

ISPC, Trevor Cooper, Drama Studio London, Lovers Too, later premiered by the NSTC in Edinburgh.

Sponsors: The Sunday Times, Samuel French, Granada Television, Southern Television, Southern Tourist Board/English Tourist Board, Hallmark Cards, IBM, Williams Lea Ltd, Scottish Television & Southern Arts;
lo: Steve Poulter;
td: Ian Cook

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