This festival finished on Wednesday 11 April 2001, and this page is being kept for archival purposes only.
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We submitted multiple shows. Junk, shown below, got performed, whereas Mojo didn’t.
NSDF01 saw record box office numbers - not including the 100 students working on the Festival and the 50 or so professional staff over 650 people attended for the whole week buying subscription tickets or their equivalents. In addition to this a further 750 attended one or more events. Approximately 11,000 seats were sold for all 66 performances of the 15 selected productions. In addition some 5,000 workshop tickets were sold. Among the professionals who gave their time and skills to NSDF01 were: Michael Attenborough, Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Clare Venables, Susannah Doyle, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg, John Caird, Mike Bradwell, Richard Cameron and Mark Ravenhill
A&R; (n) by Peter Morris,
Studio Ensemble, Edinburgh University (Sunday Times Playwriting Award)
Atlantica (ns) by Jack Martelli,Pitcairn Drama Company,
Cambridge University
Black Boxes and Amber Rooms (n) by Tom Morton-Smith,
Minotaur, University of East Anglia
Door 32 (n d)
Scarborough Campus, Hull University (Commendation for Style and Impact)
Dystopia (n d)
Warwick University (Award for Physical Performance, Helena Sands)
Falsettoland by William Finn,
LIPA (Buzz Goodbody Student Director Award & Bush Theatre Directing Bursary, Jamie Lloyd; Cameron Mackintosh Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre; Commendation for Performance, Emily Dykes). nstc
A Few More Lessons in Love (n d)
Scarborough Campus, Hull University (previously University College Scarborough, after North Riding College)
The Grandmother Project (n) by Jennifer Lindsay,
Stanford University (Commendation for Creative Endeavour; Commendation for Performance, Emily Dykes)
Judith by Howard Barker,
Bleeding Edge Theatre, Cambridge
Junk by John Retallack (ad from Melvin Burgess),
Edinburgh University Theatre Company
Pull My Strings (ns d) by Anna Silman & Samuel Booth,
York University (Award for Craft and Imagination; Festgoers’ Award)
Rhian and Ripley (n) by Ashif Verjee,
Minotaur Theatre Company, University of East Anglia
Why Wait Til You’re Fifty? (n d) by Robert Collett,
DMU, Brooksby Melton College
Witness Me (n d),
Halfway-Nowhere, Warwick University (Award for Physical Theatre; Award for Physical Performance, Helena Sands; Commendation for Lighting, Chris Luffingham)
The Woman Who Walked into Doors (ns) by Liz White (ad from Roddy Doyle),
LIPA ( Award for Best Individual Performance, Liz White;
Commendation for Stage Adaptation)
ISPC, Reginald Ofodile, Exeter Unversity:A Form of Healing
Sunday Times Harold Hobson Student Drama Critic Award, Dan Bye
Personal Managers’ Association Award, Christopher Dunkley, Exeter University
Stephen Joseph Theatre Technical Residency, Neil Hobbes
Royal National Theatre Trainee Producer, Tracey McGarrigan
Sponsors: The Sunday Times, BBC Talent, The Mackintosh Foundation, Arts Council of England & HSBC; financially assisted by: Scarborough Borough Council & The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation;
lo: Ian Abbott and Tracey McGarrigan;
td: Chris French
