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| TROPHY | WINNER |
|---|---|
| Festival Winner | Tryst Theatre 'Art' |
| Festival Runner-up | Parkside Players 'The Importance of Being Earnest' |
| Audience Winner | Parkside Players 'The Importance of Being Earnest' |
| Audience Runner-up | In Yer Space 'Like a Virgin' |
| Best Actor | Greg Tillet as John Worthing in Parkside Players 'The Importance of Being Earnest' |
| Best Actress | Ame Tillet as Gwendoline Fairfax in Parkside Players 'The Importance of Being Earnest' |
| Best Director | Val Tillet, Parkside Players |
| Best Supporting Role | Neill Pearce as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Deben Players 'Twelfth Night' |
| Best Set | Tryst Theatre 'Art' |
| Best Dressed Play | Rushmere Players 'Under Milk Wood' |
| Team Acting Award | Tryst Theatre |
| Adjudicators Special Award | Craig Murray from Tryst Theatre as Yvan in 'Art' |
| YEAR | WINNER | RUNNER-UP |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Deben Players 'Roses of Eyam' | In Yer Space 'Teechers' |
| 2008 | Parkside Players 'Journey's End' | Deben Players 'Murdered to Death' |
| 2007 | Run At It Shouting 'Find Me' | Kytes Theatre Group 'Last of the Red Hot Lovers' |
| 2006 | Deben Players 'It Runs in the Family' | In Yer Space 'Hannah and Hanna' |
| 2005 | In Yer Space 'Crystal Clear' | Cardiff Players 'Comic Potential' |
| 2004 | Dunstable Rep. Theatre Club 'The Anastasia File' | Deben Players 'When We Are Married' |
| 2003 | Deben Players 'Separate Tables' | Sudbury Dramatic Society 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' |
| 2002 | Deben Players 'Out of Order' | Cardiff Players 'Cider with Rosie' |
| 2001 | Sudbury Dramatic Society 'Twelve Angry Men' | Bovingdon Players 'Abigail's Party' |
| 2000 | Barn Theatre Club 'Julius Caesar' | Thurrock Courts Players 'Nevilles Island' |
| 1999 | Deben Players 'Key for Two' | Cardiff YMCA 'Party Piece' |
| 1998 | Barn Theatre Club 'All My Sons' | Deben Players 'Habeas Corpus' |
| 1997 | Barn Theatre Club 'Uncle Vanya' | Brigstowe Theatre Company 'Driving Miss Daisy' |
| 1996 | Barn Theatre Club 'Racing Demon' | Parkside Players 'Harvest' |
| 1995 | Barn Theatre Club 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde' | Thurrock Courts Players 'Lord Arthur Saville's Crime' |
| 1994 | Barn Theatre Club 'Anthony and Cleopatra' | Cardiff YMCA 'Last Tango in Whitby' |
| 1993 | Cardiff YMCA 'Man of the Moment' | Parkside Players 'Devil's Disciple' |
| 1992 | Seaview Players 'Steel Magnolias' | Brigstowe Theatre Company 'Hamp' |
| 1991 | Cardiff YMCA 'Tons of Money' | Barn Theatre Club 'Amadeus' |
| 1990 | Studio One 'Twelve Angry Men' | Barn Theatre Club 'Noises Off' |
| 1989 | Cardiff YMCA 'Woman in Mind' | Roman Court Theatre 'I Claudius' |
| 1988 | Barn Theatre Club 'Canterbury Tales' | Cardiff YMCA 'The Sunshine Boys' |
| 1987 | Cardiff YMCA 'On Golden Pond' | Bath Drama Club 'A Man for all Seasons' |
| 1986 | Parc and Dare 'Through and Through' | Barn Theatre Club 'Vivat Vivat Regina' |
| 1985 | Barn Theatre Club 'The Elephant Man' | Parkside Players 'The Wind in the Sassafras Trees' |
| 1984 | Bath Drama Group 'Habeas Corpus' | Deben Players 'The Government Inspector' |
| 1983 | Barn Theatre Club 'The Dresser' | Studio One 'A Man for all Seasons' |
| 1982 | Cardiff YMCA 'The Patrick Pearse Motel' | Manor Theatre, Staffs. 'Circles' |
| 1981 | Barn Theatre Club 'Dracula' | Deben Players 'There Goes the Bride' |
| 1980 | Studio One 'Conduct Unbecoming' | Combined Theatre, Barking 'Merchant of Venice' |
| 1979 | Studio One 'Of Mice and Men' | Stowmarket AODS 'Hobsons Choice' |
| 1978 | Deben Players 'The Rainmaker' | Cardiff YMCA 'Absurd Person Singular' |
| 1977 | Cardiff YMCA 'The Odd Couple' | Deben Players 'Move Over Mrs Markham' |
| 1976 | Tudor Players, Manchester 'Butterflies are Free' | Cardiff YMCA 'My Three Angels' |
| 1975 | Deben Players 'Catherine Howard' | Lindium Players, Lincoln 'Don't Start Without Me' |
| 1974 | Cardiff YMCA 'Forget-me-not Lane' | Norcross Players 'Big, Bad Mouse' |
| 1973 | Norcross Players 'Not Now Darling' | Parkside Players 'Night Must Fall' |
| 1972 | Parkside Players 'Carry Me Back to Canning Town' | Bridgend Castle Players 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' |
| 1971 | British Rail Players, Dublin 'Sive' | Edinburgh Theatre Arts 'A Streetcar Named Desire' |
| 1970 | Cardiff YMCA 'Relatively Speaking' | Deben Players 'The Lion in Winter' |
| 1969 | Lantern Theatre, Sheffield 'Summer of the 17th Doll' | Bridgend Castle Players 'Jolt for the Joneses' |
| 1968 | Edinburgh Peoples Theatre 'Collapse of the Stout Party' | Bridgend Castle Players 'Rose Without a Thorn' |
| 1967 | BP Theatre Group 'The Importance of Being Ernest' | Bridgend Castle Players 'The Curious Savage' |
| 1966 | Bridgend Castle Players 'Under Milk Wood' | Hereford YMCA 'Mother Courage and Her Children' |
| 1965 | Sheffield Playgoers 'Captain Carvelle' | GROUP AND PLAY UNKNOWN |
| 1965 | Hertford ? 'The Rehearsal' | Edinburgh Peoples Theatre 'Loves Labours Lost' |
| 1964 | Earl Stagers 'Out of Crocodile' | Parkside Players 'The Miracle Worker' |
| 1964 | Cardiff YMCA 'Billy Liar' | BP Drama Group, London 'PLAY TITLE UNKNOWN' |
| 1963 | Kensington Theatre Group 'Hedda Gabler' | Leeds Arts Centre 'When We are Married' |
| 1962 | Sheffield Playgoers 'The Infernal Machine' | Bridgend Castle Players 'Wind of Change' |
| 1961 | Edinburgh Peoples Theatre 'PLAY TITLE UNKNOWN' | Group One, Kensington 'PLAY TITLE UNKNOWN' |
| 1960 | Group One, Kensington 'The Long and The Short and The Tall' | Company of Players, Suffolk 'Angels in Love' |
| 1959 | Theatre Arts, Edinburgh 'PLAY TITLE UNKNOWN' | Theatre One, Edinburgh 'PLAY TITLE UNKNOWN' |
| 1958 | Edinburgh Peoples Theatre 'The Women Who Have Their Way' | Theatre One, Edinburgh 'Don't Listen Ladies' |
| 1957 | Durham Drama Society 'Lace on her Petticoat' | Edinburgh Peoples Theatre 'Thieves Carnival' |
| 1956 | Theatre One, Edinburgh 'The Still Small Voice' | GROUP AND PLAY UNKNOWN |
| 1955 | Tredeadgar Drama Society 'Johnny Belinda' | Edinburgh Peoples Theatre 'Who Loves Moraig' |
| 1954 | GROUP AND PLAY UNKNOWN | GROUP AND PLAY UNKNOWN |
| 1953 | GROUP AND PLAY UNKNOWN | GROUP AND PLAY UNKNOWN |
| 1952 | GROUP AND PLAY UNKNOWN | GROUP AND PLAY UNKNOWN |
| 1951 | Company of Players, Bury St Edmunds 'PLAY TITLE UNKNOWN' | Westminster Bank D and OS 'PLAY TITLE UNKNOWN' |
Much of this information has been taken from a publication written by Mona Vince to mark the 40th Anniversary of Felixstowe Drama Festival. If anyone has other records which could help us fill in the blanks we would be very grateful. Any contributions will be acknowledged. Please e-mail or telephone the Festival Director, Alan Dix, or contact the webmaster directly.