WHAT'S
ON IN BEDS EVENTS DIARY
Keep up to date with Amateur Drama in Bedfordshire
with the BDA
Previously our main activity was to run the annual One-Act Drama Festival in Bedfordshire. This is now in it's 25th Year and is now held in Haynes. Entrants come from a wide area and many rural groups regularly participate. Some groups elect to go forward to the All England Finals and last year a local group went through all the area finals and won the competition.
We have now expanded the web site to provide information that is of interest to all Drama Groups (and their audiences) in the area.
In particular it's an easy way to find out where amateur productions are being staged.
We are currently allowing free entries on the website for all Bedfordshire Groups in our Groups listing and the "What's On" page.
Membership is required
if you wish to enter the festival or if you wish to have display
adverts and a write-up about your group on our
pages. This costs £15 per annum.
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GET A WEB PAGE FOR YOUR GROUP HERE!
We are now able to offer all Bedfordshire Drama Groups a web page here on this site - we will design it, so no IT knowlege is needed. If you have your own site we can add a link to it. There is a small fee per year.
NEED
A POSTER DESIGNED?
Take
a look at these posters
and find out about having one designed
for your next production.
The
Play Produced - Living Together
ACTORS
WANTED!
Building
the set for THE MISER
The
Wilstead Players are coming to the end of an amazing run of success
in the rounds of The All-England
Theatre Festival and other local Drama Festivals. Their entry, “Lear’s
Daughters” by Elaine Feinstein and the Women’s Theatre Group,
built on early successes at the Cambridge and Bedfordshire Drama Festivals
in April, winning the latter outright and picking up awards for the Set,
Costumes, Direction and Acting. This meant the group progressed to the
Quarter-finals held at Haverhill in Suffolk where, once again, they triumphed.
The following week they travelled to Maidenhead for the All-England Semi-finals.
Here they were narrowly beaten by a team from Aylesbury, who later went
on to win the English Final at Grays in Essex.
Undaunted, in early June the Players performed brilliantly at both the
Welwyn
Festival and at Haverhill’s own Drama Festival where they were placed second
and first respectively, picking up further trophies for Set, Direction and Audience
Appreciation. In fact, they lifted the trophy for Best Set/Presentation at each
and every Festival they entered.They now have a clutch of 15 awards from their performances of this play – an
unprecedented success for them.
The players gave a final performance on 9th July
in Wilstead
where a collection
for
a Battered Wife charity was made. A capacity audience were invited by
Andy Calvert (Best Director in the BDA Festival 2008) to question the cast after
the
performance
about
the
play
and
their
roles.
Debbie
Bosher
Hon Secretary
BDA
32 Longden Close
Haynes
Beds
MK45 3PJ
Tel: 01234 381295
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