Record entries at drama festival
The 14th Wolfit Festival of Drama And Verse Speaking attracted 165 entries — a record number — at Bowbridge Primary School, Newark, on Friday, March 23, and Saturday, March 24.
The Advertiser’s managing director, Joanna Parlby, opened the event, run by the Wolfit Endowment Fund in memory of the Balderton-born actor/manager Sir Donald Wolfit.
The adjudicator was Susan MacKay. The trophies and awards of book tokens from Stray’s Books, Newark, were presented by the Mayor of Newark, Bryan Richardson.
The highest mark of 89 was achieved by John Dodd, of Balderton, who won the adult verse and prose reading class for He Always, and A Chip In The Sugar by Alan Bennett.
The most promising performer trophy was awarded to Lucy Wray, of Sutton-on-Trent, who won the dramatic solo, age 16 and over class, for The Arcata Promise by David Mercer.
Results: special needs category: Orchard Expressions; verse speaking up to year 5: Alex White; dramatic solo up to year 5: Etienne Giudicelli; dramatic solo up to year 6: Eleanor Beddoe; verse speaking up to year 6: Ella Fairchild; dramatic group age 12 to 20: The Mumblers; dramatic groups aged 5 to 11: Dean Hole Primary School, Caunton; verse speaking up to year 2: Jasmine Stevenson-Leighton; verse speaking up to year 3: Abigail Rayns; verse speaking up to year 4: Alannah Young; verse speaking up to year 12: Nathan Read.
Dramatic duologue up to year 5: Harriet Parkinson and Alexandra Ward; dramatic duologue up to year 7: Olivia Sinclair and Charlotte Milligan; dramatic duologue age under 17: Nathan Read and Josie Read; verse speaking up to year 4: Teegan Harrison Goodger; verse speaking up to year 5: Alexandra Ward; verse speaking up to year 6: Eleanor Beddoe; verse speaking up to year 8: Georgina Vasey; Shakespeare solo up to year 8: Georgina Vasey; Shakespeare solo age 16 and over: Anastasia O’Connell; dramatic duologue up to year 9: Eleanor Jaines and Hannah Macleod; and dramatic solo up to year 10: Emily Bradley.
