This festival finished on Wednesday 08 April 1998, and this page is being kept for archival purposes only.
Scarborough - EUTC show submitted, not accepted
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We submitted Mr Punch but didn’t get admitted.
Remarkably, over 75% of participants came without a production, including two people benefiting from inaugural Midland Bank bursaries for disabled students. Fourteen selected shows, including a well choreographed Guys and Dolls (winning Mo Brindley the first-ever award for a producer), plus a guest production of Ken Campbell’s Pidgin Makbed, from LAMDA. The Arden theatre School, Huddersfield University, Halifax School of Integrated Arts and Gorseinon College made their NSDF debuts. LIPA brought three shows, including The Storyteller, which the NSTC took t Edinburgh with Outstanding Production and Sunday Times Playwriting Award winner Stand (newcomer Northampton College). Mark Bowden Chaired the all-important discussions: John Godber, Robert Hewison and Cathy Tyson judged. The excellent workshops programme included newcomers Annabel Arden (Theatre de Complicite), designer Jessica Curtis, Claire Grove (BBC Radio Drama producer) and Jamie Nuttgens (producer of The Bill)as well as familiar faces Stephen Jeffreys, Timothy West and John Wright. Another fine crop of Noises Offs co-edited by Gaie Sebold, sadly retiring from the newsmag after fourteen years of dedicated service.
Aberfan (ns) by Mark Jermin,
UGly Theatre, Glamorgan University
A-Gender (n d)
Arden Theatre School, Manchester
Ball Boys (new version) by David Edgar,
The 82 Group, Birmingham University (Commendation for Political Theatre)
City Haunts (ns d)
ADC, Cambridge University (Commendation for Devised Work)
Closer than Ever by Maltby & Shire,
Headto- Toe Theatre Company, LIPA (Outstanding Ensemble Award; Performance Award, Louise McCabe). nstc
Dog Eat Dog by Tim Kelly,
Endymion Theatre Company, LIPA
The Dwarfs by Harold Pinter,
red i production, Welsh College of Music & Drama (Performance, Craig Rogan; Commendation for Use of Sound, Bob Fitzgerald)
Guys and Dolls by Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows & Frank Loesser (ad from Damon Runyon)
Footlights, Exeter University (Award for a Producer, Mo Brindley; Performance Commendation, Iain Potter; Commendation for Choreography, Karen Hall; Commendation for Musical Direction, James Casselton)
Sincerity (n) by Kevin Rundle,
Stage to Screen Film & Theatre Society, Warwick University
Stand (n) by David Bown,
Northampton College (Sunday Times Playwriting Award; Outstanding Production Award; Performance Award, Jon France & Tim Page). nstc
The Storyteller (ns) by Jit Murad,
Ragnarokk Theatre Company, LIPA (Performance Commendation, Ashley Alymann). nstc
Terminal by Susan Yankovitz & the Open Theatre Company, ad by Joseph Chaikin and Company,
Delaruh, University of Huddersfield
Trainspotting by Harry Gibson (ad from Irvine Welsh),
Impact Theatre Company, Halifax School of Integrated Arts, Calderdale Colleges
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas,
Gorseinon College
Invited Production
Pidgin Makbed by William Shakespeare (tr into Wol Wantok Pidgin by Ken Campbell), LAMDA
ISPC, Peter Morris, Oxford University The Square Root of Minus One
Sunday Times Harold Hobson Student Drama Critic Award, Duska Radosvljevic, Huddersfield
Festival Director’s Award (for her outstanding contribution to the NSDF and NSTC over many years), Lon David
Sponsors: The Sunday Times, BBC Broadcast, Scarborough Borough Council, Arts Council of England & Danka Office Imaging;
lo: Joanna Crowley;
td: Claudia West