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Banbury Cross Players continue to shine at Nationals
Lighthorne Festival runners-up, Banbury Cross Players, scooped two of eight awards at the National Drama Festival. Chrissie Garrett won Best Director, and actor Martin Crook took the prize…
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Mop and Bucket Triumphs at Lighthorne Festival
A play called Mop and Bucket from a talented young South Warwickshire playwright cleaned up at this year’s sell-out Lighthorne Festival of One-Act Plays. The piece, by Benjamin…
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LIGHTFEST DEFIES NATIONAL TREND TO MOVE TO FIVE NIGHTS
For the first time in its history, this year the Lighthorne Festival of One-Act Plays will expand to five nights. The growth directly contradicts the national trend. In…
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RUNNING ORDER – LIGHTFEST 2026.
TUESDAY JUNE 2 AT 7.15 PM Stourbridge Theatre Company. “12 hr Life” by Robert Scott. Co-directors Michaela Revel-Maton and Dan Price Technical Leads Tim French and Ken Gristwood…
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Praise for Lighthorne Entrants at the National Drama Festival
Lightfest 2025 winners Banbury Cross Players claimed no less than THREE nominations at the National Drama Festival (Thursday July 31 – Sunday August 3, 2025). Phil Wintle, who…
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Lighthorne Festival of One Act Plays 2025
Banbury Cross Players have become the first-ever amateur theatre group to win the prestigious Lighthorne Drama Festival twice. Their piece, “Goodbye Charles” by Gabriel Benjamin Davis, directed by…
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