National Drama Festivals Association

The National Drama Festivals Association (NDFA) was formed in 1964 to encourage and support amateur theatre in all its forms and in particular through the organisation of drama festivals in the United Kingdom.

Since 1974 the NDFA has organised the British All Winners Drama Festival (BAWF) where the very best of British amateur theatre

Amateur theatre

Amateur theatre is theatre performed by amateur actors. These actors are not typically members of Actors' Equity groups or Actors' Unions as these organizations exist to protect the professional industry and therefore discourage their members from appearing with companies which are not a signatory...

take part in a week-long celebration of theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

. The winners of all NDFA member festivals, be they Full Length or One Act Member Festivals, in the previous year are eligible for invitation to take part.

The NDFA also sponsor a Playwriting Competition - the George Taylor Memorial Award. The objective of this competition is to promote new writing for the theatre. Adjudication is carried out by a panel of judge

Judge

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s and the winners receive a certificate and a cash prize.

Membership of the NDFA is open to all Drama festival organisations and also to theatre groups and individuals who are interested in taking part and supporting drama festivals throughout UK.

Awards

There are a number of awards presented at the British All Winners Drama Festival which include:

FULL LENGTH PLAYS
- OVERALL WINNER - The Mary Blakeman Trophy
- RUNNER UP - The Amateur Stage Trophy
- ADJUDICATOR'S AWARD - The Felixstowe Festival Trophy
- BACKSTAGE AWARD - The Sydney Fisher Trophy

ONE ACT PLAYS
- OVERALL WINNER - The Irving Trophy
- RUNNER UP - The NDFA Council Trophy
- ADJUDICATOR'S AWARD - The Amateur Theatre Trophy
- BACKSTAGE AWARD - The Sydney Fisher Trophy
- AUDIENCE APPRECIATION - Halifax Evening Courier Award

YOUTH ENTRY
- WINNER OF YOUTH SECTION - The NDFA Trophy
- YOUTH PARTICIPATION AWARD - The Buxton Trophy
- YOUTH AUDIENCE APPRECIATION - The GADOC Joyce Cook Memorial Trophy

Results

Number	Year	One Act Plays				Full Length Plays				Venue	Location	Adjudicator
Number	Year	Winners (Irving Trophy)	Nationality	Runners Up (NDFA Council Trophy)	Nationality	Winners (Mary Blakeman Trophy)	Nationality	Runners Up (Amateur Stage Trophy)	Nationality	Venue	Location	Adjudicator
36th	2009	Karvid Productions - Hemel Hempstead (Alas Poor Fred by James Saunders)		The Lighted Fools Theatre Company (The Dumb Waiter The Dumb Waiter The Dumb Waiter is a one-act play by 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter written in 1957; it premiered at the Hampstead Theatre Club, on 21 January 1960... by Harold Pinter Harold Pinter Harold Pinter, CH, CBE was a Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party , The Homecoming , and Betrayal , each of which he adapted to... )		Bejou Productions (Someone Who'll Watch Over Me Someone Who'll Watch Over Me Someone Who'll Watch over Me is a play written by Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness. The play focuses on the trials and tribulations of an Irishman, an Englishman and an American who are kidnapped and held hostage by unseen Arabs in Lebanon. As the three men strive for survival they also strive to... by Frank McGuinness Frank McGuinness Professor Frank McGuinness is an award-winning Irish playwright and poet. As well as his own works, which include Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, he is recognised for a "strong record of adapting literary classics, having translated the plays of Racine, Sophocles, Ibsen and... )		Horncastle Theatre Company (The Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan Peter Whelan Peter Whelan is a British playwright.Whelan was born and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, England. His works includes seven plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the first of which was Captain Swing, in 1979... )		Rhoda McGaw Theatre	Woking Woking Woking is a large town and civil parish that shares its name with the surrounding local government district, located in the west of Surrey, UK. It is part of the Greater London Urban Area and the London commuter belt, with frequent trains and a journey time of 24 minutes to Waterloo station....	Mike Kaiser GoDA Göda Göda, in Sorbian Hodźij, is a municipality in the east of Saxony, Germany. It belongs to the district of Bautzen and lies west of the eponymous city.- Villages :Several villages belong to the municipality:...
35th	2008	Send ADS - Surrey (The Island The Island (play) The Island is a play by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona.The apartheid-era drama, inspired by a true story, is set in an unnamed prison clearly based on South Africa's notorious Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held for twenty-seven years... by Athol Fugard Athol Fugard Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English, best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy-Award winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood... )		St.Pauls Drama Group - Surrey (Happy Jack by John Godber John Godber John Harry Godber is an English dramatist, known mainly for his observational comedies. In the 'Plays and Players Yearbook' for 1993 he was calculated as the third most performed playwright in the UK behind William Shakespeare and Alan Ayckbourn. He has a wife and 2 children.-Biography:Godber was... )		Everyman Productions - Co Sligo (Juno and the Paycock Juno and the Paycock Juno and the Paycock is a play by Sean O'Casey, and one of the most highly regarded and oft-performed plays in Ireland. It was first staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924... by Sean O'Casey Seán O'Casey Seán O'Casey was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.- Early life:... )

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(Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman

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by Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller

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Douglas, Isle of Man

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Göda

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(Home Free

Home Free

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Art

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The Lamproom Theatre

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, Barnsley

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(Turns by John Kelly

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Llandrindod Wells

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Marry Me A Little (musical)

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by Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim

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Runnymede Drama Group

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(And Go To Innisfree by Jean Lenox Toddie)
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Belvoir players

Belvoir Players Amateur Dramatics Society is situated in Belvoir Drive, Belfast and was founded in 1968.Rodger Dane, is the current chairman of the company. They are responsible for such works as the play version of Joseph Tomelty's The Mcooeys....

(Someone Who'll Watch Over Me

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me

Someone Who'll Watch over Me is a play written by Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness. The play focuses on the trials and tribulations of an Irishman, an Englishman and an American who are kidnapped and held hostage by unseen Arabs in Lebanon. As the three men strive for survival they also strive to...

by Frank McGuinness

Frank McGuinness

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NIR

Northern Ireland

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('night, Mother

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by Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman

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Woking

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John Godber

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Halifax, West Yorkshire

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Debbie Isitt

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Llandrindod Wells

North of Boston

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by Robert Frost

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|align=center|The Lamproom Theatre Company (Barnsley, S Yorks)
(Up 'n' Under

Up 'n' Under

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by John Godber

John Godber

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(A Night in November

A Night in November

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by Marie Jones

Marie Jones

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Runnymede Drama Group

(Five Kinds of Silence

Five Kinds of Silence

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by Shelagh Stephenson

Shelagh Stephenson

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Marina Carr

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(Nunsense

Nunsense

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by Dan Goggin

Dan Goggin

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Hertford

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Home Free

by Lanford Wilson

Lanford Wilson

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(The Room by Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

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(Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose

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|align=center|Cardiff Players
(Communicating Doors

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by Alan Ayckbourn

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Woking

Runnymede Drama Group

(Scarecrow

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by Don NIgro

Don Nigro

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(Porch

Porch

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by Jack Heifner)
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|align=center|Brigstowe Theatre Company
(Entertaining Mr Sloane

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by Joe Orton

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|align=center|Thurrock Courts Players
(Neville's Island by Tim Firth

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Felixstowe

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John Prideaux

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(A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking by John Ford Noonan

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(The Cripple of Inishmaan

The Cripple of Inishmaan

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by Martin McDonagh

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Grays

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Porthcawl

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Buxton

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Affiliated Festivals

The following are the member festivals, that between them organise a mixture of Full Length and One Act festivals, many with Youth Sections:

Avon Drama Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Bangor Drama Festival Two festivals:
- Bangor Drama Festival (Full Length)
- Bangor Drama Festival (One Act)
Bedfordshire Drama Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Birmingham Drama Festival Two festivals:
- Birmingham Drama Festival (Full Length Peripatetic)
- Birmingham Drama Festival (One Act)
Brentwood Drama Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Cambridge Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Chalfont St.Peter (One Act with Youth Section)
Dorset Drama Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Elmbridge Drama Festival (One Act)
Exmouth Drama Festival (One Act)
F.E.A.T.S. (Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies) (One Act)
Felixstowe Drama Festival (Full Length)
Fleetwood Drama Festival (Full Length)
Furness & Cartmel Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Glamorgan Two festivals:
- Glamorgan "Glammies" Festival (Full Length Peripatetic)
- Glamorgan One Act Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Guernsey Drama Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Guildford Drama Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Gwent Two festivals:
- Gwent Drama Festival (Full Length Peripatetic)
- Gwent One Act Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Haverhill Drama Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Havering & SW Essex Drama Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Hertford Theatre Week (Full Length)
Isle Of Man Two festivals:
- Isle of Man "Easter" Festival (Full Length)
- Isle of Man Drama Festival (One Act)
Kirklees Drama Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Leatherhead Drama Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Leverhulme Drama Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Llandrindod Wells Drama Festival (Full Length)
Maidenhead Drama Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Manchester Drama Festival Two festivals:
- Manchester Drama Festival (Full Length Peripatetic)
- Manchester Drama Festival (One Act)
New Forest Drama Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Newtownabbey Drama Festival Two festivals:
- Newtownabbey Drama Festival (Full Length)
- Newtownabbey Drama Festival (One Act)
North Staffs Drama Festival (Full Length Peripatetic)
Rafta Drama Festival
RAFTA
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(One Act)
Sawston Drama Festival (One Act)
Sheffield (SADATA) Drama Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Sidmouth Drama Festival (One Act with Youth Section)
Skegness Two festivals:

Skegness Drama Festival - Full Length and One Act;

Skegness Youth Festival - One Act

Somerset Two festivals:

Somerset "Phoebe Rees" Festival - Full Length Peripatetic;

Somerset Drama Festival - (One Act with Youth Section)
Southend-on-Sea Drama Festival (One Act)
Southern Counties Drama Festival (One Act)
Spelthorne & Runnymede Drama Festival (One Act)
Stoke On Trent Drama Festival Two festivals:
- Stoke On Trent Drama Festival (Full Length)
- Stoke On Trent Drama Festival (One Act)
Teignmouth Drama Festival (One Act)
Thurrock Drama Festival (Full Length, One Act with Youth Section)
Wakefield Drama Festival (Full Length)
Waltham Forest Festival of Theatre
Waltham Forest Festival of Theatre
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One Act with Youth Section
Wellington Drama Festival (including Belfry Festival of Youth) (Full Length, One Act with Youth Section)
Welwyn Drama Festival (One Act)
Welwyn GC Youth Drama Festival (One Act)
Woking Drama Festival
Woking Drama Festival
The Woking Drama Festival is one of the largest drama competitions in the British Isles for amateur dramatics focussing on one act plays with a dedicated Youth Section...

(One Act with Youth Section)
Worcestershire Theatre Festival (One Act)

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