Southwick & Fishersgate Community Association – Twenty-Eighth Festival of Arts & Crafts
The Festival constitutes the first round of the All England Theatre Festival
The Barn Theatre, Southwick Community Centre
April 10 & 11, 1981.
Adjudicator: Sheila M. Sharpless
Winning Group: Wick Theatre Company
Best Actor: Alan Dickins – Rother Players
Best Actress: Mary Hood – Steyning Downland W.I. Drama Group
One-Act Drama Festival
Competitors – in order of appearance:
1. Steyning Downland W.I. Drama Group
R.I.P
by Kathlyn Selby
Produced by Doris Brinsley
2. The Barnstormers Youth Theatre Group
Conversations with a Golliwog
by Alexander Guyan
Produced by Kendrick Faulkner
3. The Southwick Players
The Lover
by Harold Pinter
‘Play withdrawn by the Producer – Christopher Kenneford’
4. The Rother Players
None So Blind ( the story of Oedipus the King )
adapted by Joanna Evers
Produced by Joanna Evers
5. The Regency Players
An Author in Search of Eight Characters
by Jessica Fraser
Produced by Jim Keen
6. The Wick Theatre Company
Streuth
(as originally performed by the East Loathing Amateur Dramatic Society from ‘The Coarse Acting Show’)
by Michael Green
Produced by Frances Moulton
Cast
Brian Moulton – The Inspector
Barry Bowen – Mr. Oliver D’Arcy
Joan Bearman – Mrs. D’Arcy
Antony Muzzall – Hubert D’Arcy
Peter Joyce – The Major
Ronald Cheesman – The Vicar
Douglas Tucker – James
Rosemary Biggs – Cook
Jackie Leppard – Prompt
Walter Plinge – Sergeant