This festival finished on Thursday 14 April 1988, and this page is being kept for archival purposes only.
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Selected Student Productions
The Breakdown (ns) by Stewart Harcourt, Mark Jones & Martin Lowe,
Hull University Drama Department (Judges’ Award for Original Conception, Mark Jones)
Cement by Heiner Muller,
One Step Theatre Company, Middlesex Polytechnic
Damage Your Children (ns d)
STA Travel Theatre Company, Bretton Hall College
The Dresser by Ronald Harwood,
STA Travel Theatre Company, Bretton Hall College (Judges’ Acting Commendation, Paul McCrink)
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange,
Barking College of Technology (Judges’ Award for Best Ensemble)
The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca,
Cambridge University Mummers
It’s Tough on the Streets by Andy Parsons & Henry Naylor,
Kiss My Mate, Cambridge. nstc
Like a Chicken with No Head (ns d) by Steven Morgan & Mark Waddell,
Leicester Polytechnic
A Mad World, My Masters by Barrie Keeffe,
Drama Department, UCNW, Bangor (Judges’ Acting Commendation, Eunice Faulkner)
The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer,
Preston Society, Cambridge University
Orphans by Lyle Kessler,
North Chadderton School Stage Society (Judges Award for Acting, Matthew Dunster, Allan Hardman & Paul Hilton)
Plaza Suite by Neil Simon,
STA Travel Theatre Company, Bretton Hall College (National Theatre Student Administration Award, Nick Tobin)
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You (n) by Christopher Durang (ad by Pamela Campion),
Royal Holloway College
Stags and Hens by Willy Russell,
North Chadderton School Stage Society
Tales from the Juniper Bowl (ns) by Paul Bond,
STA Travel Theatre Company, Bretton Hall College
The Tempest by William Shakespeare,
Swansea University Players
Trafford Tanzi by Claire Luckham,
Cambridge Youth Theatre (Judges Commendation for Wrestling Coaching, Neil Sands; Judges’ Acting Commendation, Nick Cavaliere)
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare,
Newcastle University Theatre Society
Wildsea-Wildsea (n) by Eric Prince,
North Riding College (Sunday Times Playwriting Award; Judges’ Award for Outstanding Production; Judges’ Acting Commendation, Anna Pangbourne). nstc
The Zoo Story by Edward Albee,
Hull University Drama Department
Cabaret Guest
Miles and Millner (formerly Foot & Mouth, ie Richard Thomas & Robert Millner) (ns)
Cambridge University (nc). nstc
Sunday Times Playwriting Award, Richard Cameron, Thomas Sumpter School, Strugglers (not selected for performance at NSDF)
Sunday Times Student Drama Critic Award, Michelle Read, Middlesex Polytechnic & Rick Bridge, Cambridge University
ISPC, Katy Dean, Leicester Polytechnic, for TommyÕs Girl. nstc
Sponsors: The Sunday Times, Judith E Wilson Fund, Colleges of Cambridge University & Eastern Arts;
lo: Jane Hepper & Carol-Anne Upton;
td: Maya Campbell
