2014 Award Winners
Festival Award for Best Team
Winner: Woodhouse Players (Hamlet Part II)
Festival Award for Second Team
Winner: Blitzed Theatre Company (The Piece of Paper Paradox)
Romeril Award for Third Team (in memory of Phyl and Eric Romeril
Winner: Wanstead Players (A Room Without a Roof)
Festival Award for Best Performance by an Actress
Winner: L J Hickerton, Woodhouse Players (Hamlet Part II)
Other nominations:
Emily Carmichael, Woodhouse Players (Within Required Parameters)
Linda Levy, St Monica's Players (A Little Box of Oblivion)
Lisa Chapman, Thurrock Courts Players (Raisins)
Festival Award for Best Performance by an Actor
Winner: Darren Matthews, Blitzed Theatre Company (The Piece of Paper Paradox)
Other nominations:
Phil Clarke, Wanstead Players (A Room without a Roof)
Warren Mc Williams, St Monica's Players (Buried Deep)
Chris Jefferies, Woodhouse Players (Hamlet Part II)
David Bowman, St Monica's Players (A Little Box of Oblivion)
Mike Jones, Thurrock Courts Players (Raisins)
Festival Award for Best Stage Presentation of a Play in the Adult Section
Woodhouse Players (Within Required Parameters)
Other nominations:
Wanstead Players (A Room without a Roof)
Woodhouse Players (Hamlet Part II)
Blitzed Theatre Company (The Piece of Paper Paradox)
Wadham Players (The Droitwich Discovery)
Vi Gostling New Writing Award
Winner: JR Allen for A Room Without a Roof (Wanstead Players)
Other nominations:
Ben Hewis for Buried Deep (St Monica's Players)
Hayley Joanne Bacon for No Sight Worth Seeing (Adhoc Players Theatre Club)
Dean Rands for Raisins (Thurrock Courts Players)
Guy Gostling Award for Best Supporting Player
Winner: Ian Davenport, St Augustine's Players (Little Grimley Presents Strictly Sex Factor (On Ice) )
Other nominations:
Peter Wilson, Wanstead Players (A Room without a Roof)
Bryn Monroe, Woodhouse Players (Hamlet Part II)
Neil Gray, Darren Matthews, Blitzed Theatre Company (The Piece of Paper Paradox)
The Wanstead Players Pat Dancer Award for Best Supporting Player
Winner: Alison Roberts, Wadham Players (The Droitwich Discovery)
Other nominations:
Lizi Courtney-Magee, Wanstead Players (A Room Without a Roof)
Rose Floyd, Wadham Players (World Premiere)
Jill Atkins, Wadham Players (World Premiere)
Dick Williams Award for Comedy
Winner: Woodhouse Players (Hamlet Part II)
Other Nominations:
Wadham Players (The Droitwich Discovery)
St Augustine's Players (Little Grimley Presents Strictly Sex Factor (On Ice) )
Wadham Players (World Premiere)
Thurrock Courts Players (Raisins)
St Monica's Players (A Little Box of Oblivion
Roy Seammen Award for Adjudicator's Selection
Liz Butler as Joyce, St Augustine's Players (Little Grimley Presents Strictly Sex Factor (On Ice))
Chris Levoir Best Stage Crew Award
Winner: St Monica's Players (A Gulag Mouse)
Festival Award for Best Team in the Youth Section
Winner: Teenactors (A Memory of Lizzie)
Wadham Players Award for Second Team in the Youth Section
Winner: Waltham Forest Youth Theatre (Oubliette)
CADOS Award for Most Promising Performer 18 or Under
Winner: Louis Dodge, Waltham Forest Youth Theatre (Oubliette)
Nominated: Tanya MacPherson, Teenactors (A Memory of Lizzie)
Marcia Lee Award for Best Stage Presentation in the Youth Section
Winner: Teenactors (A Memory of Lizzie)
2014 Adjudicator Details
After the final performance each evening the Festival Adjudicator, Keith Thompson GoDA, will give a critical appraisal of each play to aid performers’ learning and encourage their improvement.
Keith's involvement in amateur drama started as a 13 year old in a London boys' school with a performance as Lucy, the maid in Sheridan's The Rivals. After several years in youth drama and local groups he joined the Barn Theatre in Hertfordshire in 1964, having moved there after getting married. He has acted and directed with this group for over 45 years, including drama festivals in England, Scotland and Wales, and he has played many times at the Minack open air theatre in Cornwall. He has just one festival success as a director, at the Felixstowe full length festival, but as an actor he has played in winning teams at the All England Final and on several occasions in plays placed first at the NDFA All Winners Final. He was awarded Best Actor at the Buxton Festival for his portrayal of Norman in The Dresser. His other favourite performances have been as Salieri in Amadeus, Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, C.S.Lewis in Shadowlands, McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Candy in Of Mice and Men. The playwrights who give him most pleasure are Feydeau, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, and the musicals of Stephen Sondheim.
Keith has served on the committee of The Little Theatre Guild of Great Britain. He is a member of the Guild of Drama Adjudicators and has adjudicated at many festivals in England and Ireland. A retired property manager who commuted to London by train for thirty five years, this afforded lots of opportunities to see West End shows. His life is dominated by the theatre but he likes football as well!
2014 Running Order
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Tuesday 11 March 7.30pm
St Monica's Players present A Gulag Mouse
A Prison Play by Arthur M Jolly
Wanstead Players present A Room without a Roof
A thoughtful comedy by J. R. Allen New Play
Ad Hoc Players Theatre Club present No Sight Worth Seeing by Hayley Joanne Bacon New Play Unsuitable for children
Wednesday 12 March 7.30pm
Thurrock Courts Players present On Unofficial Business
A drama by Craig Sandeman
Woodhouse Players present Hamlet Part II
A parody by Perry Pontac
Thurrock Courts Players present Cracker Joke Writer
A comedy by Paul Richards
Thursday 13 March 7.30pm
Blitzed Theatre Company present The Piece of Paper Paradox
A comedic drama by John Arthur Green
Wadham Players present The Droitwich Discovery
A comedy by Nick Warburton
St Monica's Players present Buried Deep
An original drama by Ben Hewis with additions by Graham Wall New Play Unsuitable for children
Friday 14 March 7.30pm
St Augustine's Players present Little Grimley Presents Strictly Sex Factor (On Ice)
A comedy by David Tristram
Woodhouse Players present Within Required Parameters
An original drama by Kelly Read New Play
Wadham Players present World Premiere
A comedy by Charles Manders
Saturday 15 March 4pm
Waltham Forest Youth Theatre present Oubliette
A drama by David Foxton
Teenactors present A Memory of Lizzie
A drama by David Foxton
Saturday 15 March 7.30pm
St Monica's Players present A Little Box of Oblivion
An absurd play by Stephen Bean
Thurrock Courts Players present Raisins
An original play about dating by Dean Rands New Play