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Central Coast TheatreFest 2008

               

    Marc Calwell, MC          Flowers for Mrs Hopkins      Last Tango (Elanora)

The TheatreFest was held on Saturday 21 June 2008 and the presentation ceremony on Sunday 22 June.  This year we also had some excellent entertainment on the preceding Friday night by junior members and junior affiliates from both the XtrAct! Drama Academy and St Peter's College Tuggerah.

TheatreFest 2008 Programme  (pdf file, 1,195,352 bytes)

Awards

The standard of entries this year was incredibly high.  Normally when you attend a theatre festival, there are one or two productions that you just wish would finish so you can get to see something else.  This DID NOT happen this year.  Woy Woy Little Theatre started proceedings with The Last Munro and set the bar high.  This bar was then the standard that all the plays seemed to reach right up until the final performance from WDG of A Night Out.

There really didn't seem to be a single show-stopper, but again with no dogs, it would have been very difficult for this year's adjudicator Carl Caulfield to settle on the award winners.  Nevertheless he did, and we are pleased to announce this year's winners:

bulletBest Male Actor                         Laszlo Weidlich  (A Night Out)
bulletBest Female Actor                     Doreen Wolfgang (Flowers for Mrs Hopkins)
bulletBest Male Actor (Supporting)      Jerard Proust (A Night Out)
bulletBest Female Actor (Supporting)   Julie Bailey (A Night Out)
bulletBest Ensemble Performance        Last Tango in Little Grimley (Elanora Players)
bulletBest Production                         Merge (U-Turn Productions)
bulletBest Production Runner-Up          Flowers for Mrs Hopkins (Romulus Players)
bulletBest Direction                           Millie Sampson (Repent at Leisure)
bulletBest Set                                   Repent at Leisure
bulletBest Costumes                          Recognition scene from Anastasia
bulletBest Unpublished Play                White Lies by Peter King
bulletAdjudicator’s Special Prize           Alexander Gibbs as author of Butterfly Lounge
bulletJohn Axford Memorial Award        St Peter's Christian College for MOH (Friday Night)
bulletApex 40 Award                           Kathleen Warren (Dowager Empress in Anastasia)
bulletWoops Award                            Nobody woopsed - so not awarded!

Running List 2008

Morning session 10.00am

bulletButterfly Productions - "Butterfly Lounge"
bulletRomulus/Maitland Repertory - "Flowers for Mrs Hopkins "
bulletWoy Woy Little Theatre - "The Last Munro"

Afternoon Session 2.00pm

bulletAd Hoc - "Method in Madness"
bulletRomulus/Maitland Repertory - "Last Tango in Little Grimley"
bulletWyong Drama Group - "Repent at Leisure"
bulletNewcastle Theatre Co - "Anastasia" 

Evening Session 7.00pm

bulletElanora Players - "Last Tango in Little Grimley"
bulletNewcastle Theatre Co - "White Lies"
bulletWyong Drama Group - "A Night Out"
bulletU-Turn Productions (Central Coast) - "Merge"

Click Here for FULL running list, including play synposes and cast lists (pdf file, 16,217 bytes)

If you have any questions about the festival, please don’t hesitate to the Festival Co-Ordinator during business hours on XXXX-XXX-XXX or at home on 02-XXXX-XXXX or via email: isarube2@bigpond.com.au .

Please download your info kit by clicking this link (pdf file, 278,821 bytes).

WDG entries

Millie Sampson directed not one but two one-act plays: A Night Out by Frank Vickery and  Repent At Leisure by Cherry Vooght.   She carried out auditions on 21 April and announced her cast at the ordinary group meeting on Tuesday 6 May 2008.

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