Southwick & Fishersgate Community Association – Twenty-Sixth Festival of Arts & Crafts
The Drama Festival is again being run as the first stage of the National Festival of Community Theatre.
The Barn Theatre, Southwick Community Centre
April 20 & 21 1979
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Adjudicator: Leonard White
Winning Group: Bognor Regis Drama Group
Best Actor: Ralph Dawes – Wick Theatre Company
Best Actress: Miriam White – Bognor Regis Drama Group
Sir Denys Wilkinson, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex presented the prizes.
One-Act Drama Festival
Competitors – in order of appearance:
1
The Aquarius Theatre Group
A Separate Peace
by Tom Stoppard
Produced by Unknown
2
Bognor Regis Drama Group
Blind Date
by Frank Marcus
Produced by Unknown
3
The Rother Players
Arms and The Man ( Act 1 )
by Bernard Shaw
Produced by Unknown
4
The Rother Players
A Sunny Morning
by S & J Qintero [trans. John Garrett Underhill]
Produced by Unknown
5
Wick Theatre Company
Johnny P.M.
by Taylor Lovering
Produced by Brian Moulton
Cast
Ralph Dawes – Joe Batemen
Frances Moulton
Douglas Tucker
Margaret Ockenden
Dennis Picott
Wendy Picott
6
Young Wick*
Playgoers
by Arthur Pinero
Produced by Betty Dawes
Cast
Antony Muzzall
Claire Tucker
Amanda Dawes
Katie Steele
Alan Gray
Emily Reed
Karen Mulholland
Jonathon Dawes
* The Young Wick was formed as a direct result of Wick’s production of Where the Rainbow Ends and is very active and self financing.
This is the first time Claire, Karen or Katie have appeared on the Southwick stage.
The play was placed third.
The adjudicator made a special award to Alan Gray who played the butler in Playgoers.