This festival finished on Friday 21 March 2008, and this page is being kept for archival purposes only.
It was announced a little before the festival that Arts Council funding of £52000 would be cut. In the end, they convinced the Arts Council to still give them funding, and even increase it with inflation.
Lost in the Wind
Devised by the company, Lost Spectacles, Bretton Hall, Leeds University
Beautiful Thing
By Jonathan Harvey, Sheffield University
When You Cry In Space Your Tears Go Everywhere
Devised by the company, Tinned Fingers, Dartington College of Arts
Proof
By David Auburn, Nottingham University
4.48 Psychosis
by Sarah Kane, University of Kent
Disco Pigs
by Enda Walsh, People at Play, Nottingham University
Jackajack
New Writing, Tucked In Productions, Sussex University
Metamorphosis
By Steven Berkoff, Belt Up, York University
Strict Machine
Devised by Helen Goalen and Abbi Greenland, Off Kilter Theatre Company, Hull University
The Dumb Waiter
By Harold Pinter, Reigate Grammar
Fewer Emergencies
By Martin Crimp, Hull University
The Skriker,
By Caryl Churchill, WUDS, Warwick University
Full Workshop Schedule here
Award Winners
Judges
Source for shows
Source for The Skriker
Cutting funding
Funding cut stopped, NSDF Saved
BBC article on incoming cuts
Argument against funding cut, by patron