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This year it took place in Edinburgh. The venues it happened in were Adam House Theatre, Bedlam Theatre, the Crown Theatre, and Netherbow Theatre, Traverse Theatre and Wilkie House, which is an amazingly big amount of venues.
It happened from 28 March to 2 April.
18 different main-shows were performed, a lot of which were original writing, with 11 theatre groups attending.
There were also short (half and hour) lunchtime shows, all of which were new writing, complied by Tom McGrath and Maggie Kinloch, performed at the Traverse every day. They’re listed under the ‘Shorts’ below.
Another thing that happened was the Festival Club, which included the SSDF cabaret, based in Wilkie Place, where every night during the festival week, there was a cabaret from 9 pm to 3 am. Each day one or two companies could organise it, meaning all of them got a chance to do cabaret.
Committee
- Honorary President - David Hayman
- Director - John Heraghty
- Administrator - Roanna Benn
- Chairman - Sally Bates
- Box Office - David Pounder
- Technical Manager - James Ellis-Jones
- Venue Managers - Beth Aplin, Chris Bonthrone, David Campton, Tania Cheston, Richard Dixon, Clare England, Anthony Harwood, Alex Roberts
- Cabaret - Sophie Chalk
- SSDF Newspaper - Tim Daniels
- Opening Reception - Sally Bates
- Van Driver - Jane Dandie, Rober Linton and Co
- SSDF Poster - mMex Rocks
- SHORTS Poster - David Michael Keen
- Publicity - Sandra McKay
- Welcoming Committee - Jules Crowley and Sandra McKay
Shows
- A Kind of Alaska and Real Inspector Hound (Stirling University Drama Society, Adam House Theatre)
- Bags and Misfoot (Kirkcaldy College Theatre Arts Programme, Netherbow Arts Centre)
- Brecht Plays (The Exception and the Rule: Driving Out a Devil; Lux in Tenebris; A respectable Wedding)(Strathclyde University, The Crown Theatre)
- Courteous Men (Glasgow Independent Theatre Company, Traverse Theatre)
- **Dick Tricky in Day Won't Come Till Dawn** by Donald Main and Hamish Clark (EUTC, Bedlam Theatre)
- **My Daughter Carries the Gun** by Lisa Golnic (EUTC, The Crown Theatre)
- New Anatomies (Telford College Community Drama Group, Adam House Theatre)
- Red Noses (Telford College Performance Group, Adam House Theatre)
- Resting A Rest (Resisting A Rest Theatre Company from the ECA, Traverse Theatre)
- Shorts (a programma of new works by students) (Traverse Theatre)
* Still Life by Stephen Greenhorn
* Birdwatching by Ken Campbell
* Poetic Justive and A Strange Letter by Chris Ballance
* Memories Die Hard by Gordon Lyon
* TV by Simon Startin
* Jumping Off at Haymerket by Ann Samuel
* Subterranean be Alex Roberts
* Burns Night by Mal Woolford and Francis Hill
- Strippers (Tooz Company from RSAMD, Bedlam Theatre)
- SSDF Cabaret (Wilkie House)
- The Children’s Hour (Glasgow University Theatre Company, Bedlam Theatre)
- The Lightkeeper (University of St Andrews ‘Mermaids’, Traverse Theatre)
Shorts
Work by the following writers was showcased
- Chris Ballance
- Ken Campbell
- Stephen Greenhorn
- Gordon Lyon
- Alex Roberts
- Ann Samuel
- Simon Startin
- Mal Woolford and Francis Hills
Workshops
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Acting Workshop (Gerda Stevenson)
- Administration Workshop (Ruari McNeill)
- American Accent Workshop (Lynn Bains)
- Comedy Workshop (Forbes Masson and Alan Cumming)
- Dance (Liz Ingram and Jane Simpson)
- **Design Workshop (Colin MacNeil)
- Directing Workshop (Ian Brown)
- Director’s Workshop (Maggie Kinloch)
- Director’s Workshop (Bryan Elsley)
- Lighting Workshop (Andy McGregor)
- Music in Theatre (David Anderson)
- Sound Workshop (Alan Woolfe)
- Theatre Games Workshop (Andy Mackie)
Please read more about SSDF in general on our wiki
