This festival finished on Thursday 19 April 1984, and this page is being kept for archival purposes only.
If you are able to provide any more information, please contact the Archivist.
Not 100% confirmed on date. The newspaper article says it opens ‘next Thursday’, on Friday the 6th of April, so presumably first date was the 12th, to 19th
Selected Student Productions
Bread’n’Butter Guns by Mike Elliston,
Red ns Rose Theatre Company, Lancaster University (YTV Award, Mark Elliston)
Christie in Love by Howard Brenton,
Manchester Umbrella Theatre Company
Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill,
The Fine Lines Company, Bretton Hall College (BP Company Award; BP Technical Award, Phil Summers)
Decadence by Steven Berkoff,
No Alternative, Manchester Umbrella Theatre Company (BP Acting Award, Denise Evans)
Good by C P Taylor,
St Andrews Mermaids (BP Acting Award, Mark Walker)
Growing Pains (ns) by Polly Teale,
Manchester Umbrella Theatre Company (Sunday Times Playwriting Award). nstc
Look Back in Anger by John Osborne,
Exeter University Student Theatre (YTV Award, Alex Renton, dir)
Medea by Olwen Wymark,
Theatre Co-op, University College, Swansea
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare,
European Theatre Group, Cambridge University (BP Music Award, Dan Warburton)
Montaillou (n) by Paul Clements (ad from Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie),
Bretton Hall College
The Odyssey (ns ad from Homer),
Anaber Theatre Company, University College, Aberystwyth (BP Company Award; BP Acting Award, Gwenith Owen)
Oedipus by Ted Hughes (ns ad from Seneca),
Bretton Hall College
On the Outbreath (ns) by Nick Phillips,
Z Theatre Company, Hull University (BP Company Award; BP Music Award, Nick Phillips)
The Plough and the Stars by Sean O’Casey,
Manchester Umbrella Theatre Company
Private Wars by James McLure,
Guildhall School of Music & Drama Student Theatre Society (BP Acting Award, Andrew Baker, Lorin Stewart & Bryan Torfeh; BP Technical Award, Paul Kell)
Simple Games (n) by Jane Thornton,
Minsthorpe High School & Community College
Tracks (ns d), Splash Theatre,
Bretton Hall College (NT/BP Student Administration Award, Patrick Murphy; BP Company Award)
A Twist of Lemon (ns) by Alex Renton,
Exeter University Student Theatre. NSTC, BBC Radio 1 (first ever Radio 1 play) & pro production RNT, Cottesloe
ISPC, Richard Sinnott, Sutton Coldfield College of Further Education, Laid on a Pebble Bed Sunday Times Student Drama Critic Award, Dion Reilly, Exeter University, Pete Bradshaw, Cambridge University & Lindy Watson, Middlesex Polytechnic
Sponsors: The Sunday Times, BP, Yorkshire Television, Scottish Television, Wakefield NDC & West Yorkshire MCC;
lo: Patrick Murphy;
td: Nick Hunt
