This festival finished on Friday 21 March 2008, and this page is being kept for archival purposes only.

National Student Drama Festival (NSDF) 2008

Scarborough - ?

Dates

Saturday 15 March - Friday 21 March 2008

Venue

NSDF

Author

N/A

Description

NSDF

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.

Productions

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

Source dates

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