Alphabetical Listing

Addlestone Community Theatre with Albert by Richard Harris
All-Sorts with The Death Artist by David Henry Wilson
Ember Players with Time Flies and The Mystery at Twicknam Village by David Ives
Flying Horse Theatre with Branching Out by Keith Trezise
Horsell Amateur Dramatic Society with And Go to Inisfree by Jean Lenox Toddie
Junk Elephant with Violet by Chris Masters
Lighted Fools Theatre Company with The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter
M10 Theatre Company with Communal Bathroom by Dave Dorrell
Oasis Youth Theatre (Lords Hill Academy) with Granny and the Wolf by Mark Wheeler
Ottershaw Players with Sure Thing, The Universal Language and English Made Simple by David Ives
Pyrford Little Theatre with Elegy for a Lady by Arthur Miller
Rule of Three with The Pillowman (Scene 1) by Martin McDonagh
Runnymede Drama Group with But Yesterday by Jimmie Chinn
Runnymede Drama Group Youth Workshop with Find Me by Olwyn Wymark
Theatre 64 with Two by Jim Cartwright
Thorpe Players with After Liverpool by James Saunders
The Byfleet Players with Sailing By by Anthony Chew
The Croft Drama Group with Bouncers by John Godber
Wired to Sound with The Human Voice by Jean Cocteau
Woking College Theatre Company with Metamorphosis by Steven Berkoff


Participants as at 6th September 08

PLAYS NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN AND / OR LIABLE TO DISTURB OR OFFEND

While the Festival includes a number of entries by youth groups under 21, it is essentially an adult-orientated festival and may include some plays which some people may consider unsuitable for children or otherwise liable to disturb or offend

The Directors of all the plays are requested to advise the Festival organisers if their entries are thought to be in this category and the organisers then try to arrange, as far as possible, to avoid scheduling such plays for the same evenings as when more junior groups are performing or the audience is most likely to include young children However, the organisers do not see the Festival entries in advance and so are dependent in this respect on the best advice which the plays' Directors are able to give

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ORDER OF PROGRAMME All performances start at 7:30pm except for Saturdays (see below for Saturday start times)   

Programme (subject to change)

N= New Play
Y= = Youth (under 21) entry
PG = Advised to us as not suitable for children

(Click on Entry and see if the Participant has a link to their web site.)

	Tuesday 30th September
	Woking College Theatre Company with Metamorphosis by Steven Berkoff Lighted Fools Theatre Company with The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter
	Wednesday 1st October
	Junk Elephant with Violet by Chris Masters   N Ember Players with Time Flies and The Mystery at Twicknam Village by David Ives    Pyrford Little Theatre with Elegy for a Lady by Arthur Miller
	Thursday 2nd October
	The Byfleet Players with Sailing By by Anthony Chew   N Theatre 64 with Two by Jim Cartwright   PG
	Friday 3rd October
	All-Sorts with The Death Artist by David Henry Wilson The Croft Drama Group with Bouncers - The Remix by John Godber   Y   PG
	Saturday 4th October     7:00 start time
	Runnymede Drama Group Youth Workshop with Find Me by Olwyn Wymark   Y   PG Rule of Three with The Pillowman (Scene 1) by Martin McDonagh   PG
	Tuesday 7th October
	Wired to Sound with The Human Voice by Jean Cocteau Ottershaw Players with Sure Thing, The Universal Language and English Made Simple by David Ives   PG
	Wednesday 8th October
	Oasis Youth Theatre (Lords Hill Academy) with Granny and the Wolf by Mark Wheeller   N   Y Horsell Amateur Dramatic Society with And Go to Innisfree by Jean Lenox Toddie Flying Horse Theatre with Branching Out by Keith Trezise
	Thursday 9th October
	Addlestone Community Theatre with Albert by Richard Harris M10 Theatre Company with Communal Bathroom by Dave Dorrell   N   PG
	Friday 10th October
	Thorpe Players with After Liverpool by James Saunders Runnymede Drama Group with But Yesterday by Jimmie Chinn
	Saturday 11th October 7.00pm start time Recall Night the 2 plays to be recalled will be announced after the adjudication on Friday 10th October
	Lighted Fools Theatre Company with The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter Runnymede Drama Group with But Yesterday by Jimmie Chinn

Programme revised at 6th September 08

Rex Walford, OBE, is a Past Chairman of the Guild of Drama Adjudicators and currently a member of its Council. He was the youngest member of the Guild when first admitted and has adjudicated many drama festivals since, including the National Drama Festivals Association All-Winners Festival and in 2007 for a second time, the Festival of European Anglophone Theatre Societies (FEATS). Rex has adjudicated the Woking Festival five times previously, most recently in 2004.

He is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and was formerly Head of the Department of Education at the University of Cambridge.. He has a M.A. degree from the School of Speech at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, one of America’s leading theatre schools. He has directed over 100 plays and musicals. He has produced his own work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on a number of occasions, and, with his wife, Wendy, runs a touring company, Cameo Theatre.

He has had a long interest in religious drama, beginning from the days when he directed several large cast productions with teenage casts in North-West London including West Side Story, which played at Central Hall, Westminster. In Cambridge, he co-ordinated an 11-play dramatisation of the whole of the New Testament (The Real Reason) for the Millennium and also turned Dorothy L Sayers’s 12-play radio cycle The Man Born To Be King into a season of stage productions with a cast of over 100 performers in 2004. More recently he has directed Dana Bagshaw’s play Cell Talk, about the contemplative Sister Julian of Norwich and the charismatic pilgrim Margery Kempe of Kings Lynn, and R F Delderfield’s classic piece Spark in Judea, both of which toured East Anglian churches to sell-out audiences and played in Ely Cathedral.

Rex also performs regularly (as compere and accompanist) in cabaret, courses and workshops with soprano Gabrielle Bell and they work together in weekend courses for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. Together they have recently made several CDs of songs from the golden years of the British musical theatre, and these have been published and released by Must Close Saturday Records. In 2008, he leads courses at Madingley Hall on ‘The Stage Musical 1928-1945’, ‘British Cinema in World War 2’ and ‘The poets and tunesmiths of Tin Pan Alley’.

With fellow-adjudicator Colin Dolley he is co-author of The one-act play companion which was published by A and C Black in 2006, the first book specifically about the genre for fifty years. He has also written several books about role-play and simulation and several of his pantomime scripts (written with Iris Lloyd) are in print and frequently performed.

He is Chairman of the Cambridge Drama Festival, which celebrates its 40th year in 2008. He has recently served a five-year term as a non-executive director of Anglia Television.