Nicola Dixon (left) as The Manager and Almira Brion as Emma in the Banbury Cross Players’ production of Mike Bartlett’s “Contractions”, directed by Chrissie Garrett, which won the 2019 Lighthorne Festival of One-Act Plays and went on to take the Best Actor award jointly for the two performers, plus the Backstage Award, at the National Finals held at The Rhoda McGraw Theatre in Woking, Surrey. Picture Peter Weston.
April 28, 2022
Dear Lighthorne Festival Supporters:
After an enforced absence of two years, the Lighthorne Festival of One-Act Plays returns this year with a top quality programme featuring groups from across the Midlands and beyond.
Nine groups will perform ten plays – two or three plays per night – over four nights. The Running Order is below.
We will run on Wednesday June 8, Thursday June 9, Friday June 10 and Saturday June 11, 2022 (there will be no Thursday night off, as has been done in recent years).
The Festival Box Office opens on Monday May 2 to the general public for season ticket sales only, priced at £55 for four nights, to include performances and supper. Individual tickets go on general sale on Monday May 9, priced at £15.00 per night and including a meal.
To contact the Festival box office, either
email: lighthornefestival@gmail.com
telephone: 07823 538637
or use the contact form on the Festival website – lighthornefestival.org.uk
Please note, in particular, that this year, performances will begin EITHER at 7pm or 7.30 pm, depending on whether it is a two-play or three-play night. To ensure a prompt start, all audience members should be in their places in Lighthorne Village Hall at least 10 minutes before curtain up.
Finally, as in all previous years, the Lighthorne winner will qualify for consideration for the NDFA National Drama Festival (formerly the British All-Winners) which returns to the Albany Theatre in Coventry this year, from Sunday July 17 to Saturday July 23 with a Conference on Inclusion and Diversity in British Amateur Theatre during the Saturday daytime in the on-site Albany Studio.
Since the Lighthorne Festival launched in 2013, its winners and nominees have won places in every NDFA Final and picked up every national award open to them, including best production, best new script, best actor and the backstage award.
We are thrilled to be back in business again and all of us are immensely looking forward to welcoming you to Lighthorne in June for what promises to be a great Festival – exciting, challenging, thought-provoking and funny – just as it should be. The Running Order is below.
See you in June
Rod.
Rod Chaytor
Chair
The Lighthorne Festival of One-Act Plays.
LIGHTFEST RUNNING ORDER, 2022
(as of May 25, 2022)
WEDNESDAY JUNE 8 AT 7 PM
1) Criterion Theatre, Coventry. “Closer to God” by Anna Jordan
2) Phoenix Players, Stratford. “Brummagem Pals” by Roger Gowland
3) Shipwreck Productions, Droitwich Spa. “Dead End” by Cellan Wyn
THURSDAY JUNE 9 AT 7.30 PM
4) Second Thoughts, Stratford. “Happy Talk” by Angela Dandy
5) Beezer Productions, Stratford. “The Sad Contessa” by Bernard Hall
6) Phoenix Players, Stratford. “Pinteresque” by Roger Gowland
FRIDAY JUNE 10 AT 7PM
7) d’Overbroeck’s School, Oxford. “Faustus” by Christopher Marlowe.
8) Armistice Theatre, Kenilworth. “The Great Bird” by Clara Bush.
9) Criterion Theatre, Coventry. “The Gift” (Act Two) by Janice Okoh.
SATURDAY JUNE 11 AT 7.30 PM
10) Thursday Night Project, Esher. “Every Brilliant Thing” by Duncan Macmillan.
11) Abbey Players, Nuneaton. “Housebound” by Simon Mawdsley.