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Programme for 2013
Founded in 1929 and as iconic as Welwyn Garden City itself, the Welwyn Drama Festival brings the best of amateur dramatics from Hertfordshire and further afield to compete in a series of one act plays. Our experienced play selection team has carefully planned a week packed with everything from youth theatre to Alan Bennett classics and three completely new plays. Every evening two or more plays will thrill, excite, make you laugh and potentially cry!
Monday 3rd JuneNext Generation Youth Theatre presents A highly physical, ensemble performance, that uses Company B presents The past, they say, is dead and gone. But what do they know of its corrosive grasp on the living? When Nadia lets a stranger into her flat, claiming to have something for her, what exactly is being delivered?
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Tuesday 4th JuneWoodhouse Players presents by Caroline Reader Adapted from the plays by Sophocles, Oedipus and Antigone face trouble on the road to Colonus before Antigone is kidnapped and returned to Thebes, vowing her family’s honour will never again be disgraced.
Hertford Dramatic and Operatic Society presents
Susan, wife to an upwardly mobile vicar has none of the talents necessary to carry out the duties of “Mrs Vicar.” She finds solace with Mr. Ramesh, among the lentils in a little Indian shop behind the Infirmary in Leeds.
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Wednesday 5th JunePier Players Theatre presents Grandma’s old house has been sold and she now spends three months at a time with her granddaughters Amelia and Rose. It is now time for Rose and her husband Arthur to collect Grandma form Amelia’s house and take her home with them. Tiger Theatrical Productions presents Trevor and Barney were a successful comedy double act, but their careers are on a down slope, the TV show has been cancelled and they are reduced to the night club circuit and panto work. We join them back stage shortly before a performance. Bitter resentments between the two performers surface as hidden truths are revealed, skeletons come flying out of closets, all leading to a thrilling and disturbing climax.
Barton Players presents Henry Throgmorton (deceased) has decreed that a wake should be held in his honour at the funeral parlour. The guests, previously unknown to each other, are his wife and his two mistresses
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Thursday 6th JuneCentre Stage presents On December 22, 1989, Samuel Beckett died leaving an estate which continues to enforce his edict that no gender changes may be made in any performance of Waiting For Godot. This will last for the length of copyright – 70 years after the author’s death. That’s a long time in limbo for a female panto double act with pretensions....
CADS presents Turn To Face the Change Turn to Face the Change is an ever so slightly warped romantic comedy involving a voyeuristic cat, a miserable late-night radio talk show host, one sexy mother, a writer of erotic fiction, a womanising flatmate, and a seriously messed up love square (like a love triangle but more, well, square).
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Friday 7th June
TO FAKE OR NOT TO FAKE by Sue Welch A love triangle that goes wrong …. again, again and again. Clavering Players presents Our Baggage follows us through life but sometimes we
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Saturday 8th JuneHertford Dramatic and Operatic Society presents
Peggy, an office worker feels she is indispensible and very popular. When taken ill, still full of self importance, she attempts to recreate her role with hospital patients and staff.
Players' Theatre (Wales) presents Long suffering daughter Mattie, living in uneasy harmony with her 'ailing' but strong-willed mother, has a difficult job ahead of her. How to break the news that she, at 37, has found the man of her dreams. Problem is, his is not the profession that Mam takes kindly to, as he's the local undertaker and he has an elderly, deaf father to look after too!" |
