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Central Coast TheatreFest 2010
The TheatreFest this year was held over the weekend Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd July. On Friday there was a night of presentations from the XtrAct Drama Academy to break the ice, get the ball rolling, and give all competitors a chance to familiarise themselves with the venue, other competitors and Wyong Drama Group itself. (See pictures of the JuMP night) Click Here for Running List of Plays (with brief synopses and cast lists) (pdf file, 71,723 bytes). Click Here for Programme (pdf file, 786,713 bytes) Wyong Drama Group entered two shows this year, Three Chairs! by Roger Gimblett (directed by Julie Bailey - two awards) and The Boat by Jill Shearer (directed by Howard Oxley - six awards). A number of Wyong Drama Group members were also involved in productions entered by other theatre companies. The following awards, "The Woscars", were presented on Saturday 3 July by our adjudicator, Terry Brady:
NB: As usual, the above images are thumbnails. Click on the smaller picture to view the full-size image. To get a copy of these pictures on your computer. (1) Be aware you want copies of the full-sized picture, not the thumbnails. The thumbnails have "_thumb.jpg" in the filenames, so if that's what you get, you've got the wrong image! (2) Best way is to right-click on each pic. A menu will then pop up. Choose "Save Target As" and then choose a location on your computer in which to save it. (3) Alternatively, you can click on the thumbnail and display the full-sized picture. You can then right-click on the full-sized picture (which will open in its own window) and a menu will pop up saying (among other things) "Save Picture As". You then choose a location on your computer in which to save it.
The competitive section of the TheatreFest was held on the Saturday in three sessions, and following that the all-important Awards Ceremony was held. There were three sessions on the Saturday: 10am, 2pm and 6pm. The awards ceremony was then held an hour after the final session concluded. The Woops Award this year WAS awarded! Barry Sampson, who actually makes the trophies, was given the Woops Award for omitting to close the rear traveller curtains after setting the stage for Karma Street Kitchen, the second-last production of the festival. Obviously the strain of stage managing all day was getting to him!
We've been listening to what our visitors have been telling us. This year the festival was staged over only two days, so participants could have the Sunday at leisure to return home rather than having to wait until the Sunday afternoon for the awards presentation. We invited all interested theatre societies, collectives and other dramatically-minded groups of people to enter a One-Act play in the competition. (Submissions have, of course, now closed for 2010). For more info you should download the TheatreFest Info Pack as below. Click Here for Info Pack 2010 (pdf file, 416,395 bytes)
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