The 2025 Waltham Forest Festival of Theatre
Thursday 27th to Saturday 29th March 2025
Adjudicator: Jan Palmer Sayer
Forest Community Centre, Guildford Road, Walthamstow E17 4EA
The closing date for applying to take part in the 2025 Festival will be 6th December 2024. If you are considering entering, it would be helpful if you could email the Festival Secretary, Elaine Elliot, as soon as possible: .
Entering the 2025 Festival
Once again the venue will be: The Forest Community Centre, Guildford Road, Walthamstow, E17 4EA.
This is the small venue where we have held the festival for the last few years.
The stage is approximately 7 metres wide and 5 metres deep with front curtains.
There is very limited wing space so sets for plays not in performance have to be stored in a room at the side of the hall and may have to be set and struck in front of the audience during the interval. Please be as accurate as possible in the technical form about the amount of scenery that you will be bringing so that we can arrange the appropriate space.
As there is only one dressing room, groups are allowed to use this for 15 minutes before their play but costumes may be stored in there all evening.
The winner of the festival, whether a youth or adult entry, can opt to go on to represent Waltham Forest at the next round of the All England Theatre Festival which will take place on 7th June (venue to be confirmed), and then, hopefully, on 4th and 5th July at the All English Final.
If you are interested in opting to go forward to the next rounds, should you win the festival, please indicate this on your entry form. The fee for entering the All England festival is now £10. You will also be required to fill in a short form from the AETF before our festival takes place.
The winner of the festival will also be eligible for selection to perform at the NDFA All Winners festival at the end of July.
If you wish to ask any questions or discuss your lighting or sound requirements before that you can contact:
Liz Wheatley (Technical Director) on 07740 368 302
You are responsible for obtaining permission to perform the play and for making sure that your scenery is fireproofed.
The closing date to commit to entering the festival is earlier than usual. It is going to be Friday 6th December 2024. But if programme details and technical forms are not complete by then, you can let us have alterations and additions by the 17th January 2025.
I will send out a reminder nearer to the closing date.
We look forward to seeing you at the festival in March. Once again, we hope to create a real festival spirit by encouraging the participating drama groups to support the whole festival as well as their own team.
Elaine Elliot
Secretary
Entry forms and other downloads