Full size lion costume ordered – and tonight’s combined recording of lines, photo shoot and costume measuring will be followed by …. scoffing the plateful of jam tarts supplied by our lovely Producer (as an essential prop, obviously). I’m enjoying this!
Month: April 2015
The Award Winning Southampton Univerisity Players!!!
Each year the Totton Drama Festival takes over Hanger Farm for a week of one act plays as part of the All England One Act Drama Festival. This year the Southampton University Players put forward two plays. Semblance of Madness and Motherhood Out Loud.
These two very different pieces performed on the Friday night of the festival (Motherhood Out Loud) and Saturday (Semblance of Madness). The Directors, Actors and Technical crew worked incredibly hard to put forward two strong emotive pieces. At the end of each evening the adjudicator (Paul Fowler) put forward his thoughts on each piece, and then on the Saturday night there is an awards ceremony where we found out who would be forward to the next round of the All England One Act Drama Festival and which groups won awards.
Well… The hard work from all involved really paid off, the festival and the Adjudicator commented on the high quality of performances this year from the 9 plays put forward from groups across Hampshire. But the hard work of all paid off.
14 Nominations across the board…
Best Technical Achievement
Motherhood Out Loud
Semblance of Madness
Best Director
Alison Wells (Semblance of Madness)
Jane Beesley (Motherhood Out Loud)
Adjudicators Award
Semblance of Madness – The final moments
Motherhood Out Loud – The final moments
Best Supporting Player
Michelle Heffer (Semblance of Madness)
Alison Wells (Semblance of Madness)
The Entire Cast of Motherhood Out Loud
Best Adult Actor
Jonathan Shepherd
Best Adult Actress
Hazel Burrows (Motherhood Out Loud)
Sally Scott (Motherhood Out Loud)
Imogen Higgs (Motherhood Out Loud)
Bridget Wilkinson (Semblance of Madness)
From the headline, you can tell that not only did we receive a plethora of nominations, we also won in several Categories…
Best Technical Achievement
Motherhood Out Loud
Best Supporting Player
Michelle Heffer (Semblance of Madness)
Best Adult Actress
Bridget Wilkinson (Semblance of Madness)
But that’s not it! Not only did we get 14 nominations and 3 wins. Motherhood Out Loud came third overall and will be moving onto the next round at Shaftesbury on the 2nd May!!!!
I hope you will join me in congratulating everyone involved. What an amazing achievement for SUP!
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