are proud to host

FESTIVAL OF EUROPEAN ANGLOPHONE THEATRICAL SOCIETIES

22 – 25 May 2015 50th ANNIVERSARY

Supported by 42ND BRITISH ALL WINNERS FESTIVAL OF PLAYS

To all the participants of the Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies 2015 and their audiences,

Between the 22nd and the 25th May 2015, twelve English language theatre groups will perform their pieces in the Altona Theatre in the hope that their work will be recognised in the Award’s Ceremony on the last night.

This theatre festival is taking place in one of Europe’s cultural centres. Over ten million people per year are drawn to ’s theatres, concert halls, musical theatres and museums – including the , the , the Hamburg Laeiszhalle and the . This cultural diversity is complemented by our broad independent theatre scene, the likes of which are rarely found outside of an international cultural centre – like for example English language theatre.

Your hosts for this year’s FEATS, the Hamburg Players, have been part of Hamburg’s independent theatre scene for 50 years. This is a remarkable anniversary – the Hamburg Players have been performing three pieces a year for over half a century – and all without having received public funding.

I would like to heartily congratulate the Hamburg Players on their 50 year anniversary. And to all the FEATS participants, audience and the many people involved behind the stage, I would like to wish you some great nights of theatre and success: Break a leg! National Drama Festivals Association hosted by Woking Drama Association at RHODA McGAW THEATRE, WOKING Sunday 19th July - Saturday 25th July 2015 Lord Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Curtain Up: 7.30pm Olaf Scholz Adjudicator: Paul Fowler Tickets Available from Ambassadors Box Office 0844 871 7643

www.wokingdramafestival.co.uk 3 Welcome from the Chair of FEATS 2015 On behalf of The Hamburg Players, the hosts of this year’s FEATS, let me extend a warm welcome to everyone attending FEATS 2015. We are particularly proud and thrilled to be hosting FEATS for the second time in this, the Hamburg Players’ 50th anniversary year.

The Hamburg Players have been attending FEATS festivals in different European cities since the 1980s and have always had a fantastic time. Not only that, but we have also learnt so much from watching other theatre groups in action, and of course, each night’s adjudication. Whether you are a long-standing FEATS enthusiast or a newcomer to the festival, we hope you enjoy the exciting range of plays we have lined up for you, and the unique international festival atmosphere which is FEATS.

Finally, I would particularly like to thank our wonderfully dedicated organising committee, who have been working (in their free time) for over a year now to bring you this year’s festival.

Enjoy!

Chair of Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies 2015 Valerie Doyle

FEATS Organising Committee Chair Valerie Doyle Fringe Coordinator Amy Lee Secretary Poppy Tirard Lighting Coordinator Tom White Stage Manager Lexi von Hoffmann Sound Coordinator Meg McFarlane Hospitality Carol Kloevekorn Tickets Petra Nowak Webmaster Henrik Zawischa Party Harald Djürken > Das Giro fürs Leben – Programme/PR Julian St. Clair Sponsors Sonny Pathak Front of House Julie Spanswick Group Logistics Martina Plieger mit bis zu 150 Euro Prämie.

Kostenloses Girokonto mit lebenslanger Zufriedenheitsgarantie1: FEATS 2015 Sponsors and Supporters • 100 Euro, wenn Sie uns mögen – 150 Euro, wenn nicht The FEATS 2015 Organising Committee would like to express our heartfelt thanks to the following organisations and individuals who have contributed financially and practically to the festival: • Kostenlose Visa-Karte JETZT 2 NEU • Kostenlos Bargeld weltweit Stuart Worthington

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Lord Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg welcome address 3

Chair of FEATS 2015 welcome 5

FEATS Organising Committee 5

FEATS 2015 Sponsors and Supporters ...... 5

FEATS Steering Committee ...... 5

FEATS 2015 Running Order 7

Adjudicator Mike Tilbury, The Guild of Drama Adjudicators ...... 8

FEATS Etiquette, FEATS Marking System, Summary of the Rules of Competition . . . . . 9

Friday 22 May perfomances 10

Saturday 23 May perfomances ...... 13

Sunday 24 May performances ...... 16

FEATS Party & Organised Activities ...... 19

Monday 25 May performances ...... 20

The Awards ...... 23

Fringe ...... 24

50 years of the Hamburg Players 28

Past FEATS Winners (2005 to 2014) ...... 30

The Organising Committee for FEATS 2015 ...... 32

Thanks to all the Hamburg Players, Nola Dutton obituary ...... 33

Imprint ...... 34

FEATS 2015 Running Order

We are pleased to announce the running order for FEATS 2015. We have tried to achieve a balanced programme based on the technical requirements, genres and lengths of plays. Open to any young person aged 11-21 across the world! Hemel Hempstead, Herts. Friday 22 May Edinburgh / 27 July – 1 Aug: Belfast Group 1 Esoc Theatre Group: A Friend of A Friend 27 July – 1 Aug: Yorkshire / 3 Aug – 8 Aug: Group 2 Anglophone Collaborative Theatre of Stuttgart: This Side Of The Gestapo 27 July – 1 Aug: West Midlands 3 Aug – 8 Aug: Group 3 Stockholm Players: The Dice Kent / Godalming, Surrey 3 Aug – 8 Aug: / 17 Aug – 22 Aug: Roehampton, London Saturday 23 May 10 Aug – 15 Aug: Group 1 InPlayers International Drama Group (Amsterdam): Virtual Reality Group 2 English Comedy Club: War Brides Group 3 New English American Theatre: The Diaries of Adam & Eve

Sunday 24 May Group 1 Lucerne World Theatre Company: The Actor’s Nightmare Group 2 American Theatre Company: Spoon River Anthology Group 3 Theater de WAANzin: Elephant Song

Monday 25 May Group 1 New World Theatre Club: The Strange Horseman Group 2 Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre: Snowdrop Group 3 The Village Players: In The Middle of Nowhere

Best wishes from the Hamburg Team.

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After the first two plays each evening there will be a 25-minute interval. Please return to your seats promptly. After the final play of the evening, please remain seated for the public adjudication. Adjudicator At the end of each evening our adjudicator Mike Tilbury will present a general appraisal of that evening’s performances to the entire audience. The FEATS awards are: Mike Tilbury Goda Best Production The Founders’ Trophy (donated by the AATG) Mike Tilbury has been actively involved in theatre all his life and has divided his time Second Best Production The ECC Centennial Cup between acting, directing and adjudicating. He has been a Council Member of the Guild Third Best Production The BATS Trophy of Adjudicators, a position he held on a number of occasions, and as a past Chairman Best Actor and Best Actress The Blackie Awards he played a key role in bringing about considerable change and modernisation within Best Stage Presentation The Grand Duchy Trophy the Guild. He is currently Chairman of the Drama Festivals Consortium. Best Stage Management Marcel Huhn/Bruno Boeye Memorial Award Best Original Script DAW-Verulam Award He has sat a number of times on the examining panel at the Selection Weekend for prospective adjudicators, run acting Discretionary Award Don Luscombe Discretionary Award workshops and appeared several times at the famous Minack Open-Air Theatre in Cornwall. FEATS Marking System As actor he has appeared in everything from Ayckbourn to Ibsen and as director has particularly enjoyed the challenges of Tennessee Williams, Howard Brenton – and French farce. He has recently directed a production of Michael Frayn’s FEATS uses the standard NDFA* marking system which is: Donkeys’ Years. 40 points for Acting / 35 points for Production / 15 points for Stage presentation / 10 points for Dramatic achievement adding up to a total of 100 points. We have added a box below each play so that you, the audience, can give your own His adjudicating work has taken him all over the United Kingdom as well as to Gibraltar, Luxembourg, Belgium and personal scores to the plays performed: A 40 P 35 S 15 D 10 Total 100 Spain where he adjudicated the Costa Del Sol Festival – in English, with temperatures in the 90’s and bats flying around the auditorium! He has adjudicated the English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish Finals as well as the British Final for the All *NDFA 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 England Theatre Festival. He has also adjudicated the All Winners Festival for the National Drama Festivals Association of drama festivals. Each year, the NDFA organises the British All Winners Festival, to which the winner of FEATS is eligible to be invited. on three occasions.

He is delighted to be returning to adjudicate his fourth FEATS. Summary of the Rules of Competition

1. The HAMBURG PLAYERS FEATS 2015 Organising Committee has appointed a Festival Stage Manager whose decisions on backstage matters, including timing, are final and binding on all Participants. Authorised personnel from the Theatre are entitled to intervene at any time, for whatever reason, in the interest of the physical safety of The Guild of Drama Adjudicators (GoDA) all persons or the infrastructure within the building. 2. Each participating group will present: The Guild of Drama Adjudicators (GoDA) is the internationally recognised body for the adjudication of all forms of - A complete play, or theatre. Founded in 1947 with membership limited to those with extensive experience of amateur and professional - An extract from a play, provided that this extract is intelligible to any member of the audience who theatre, GoDA is the longest established organisation of its kind. may not have seen or read the full play (note that written and/or spoken synopses are not permitted), or - Some other form of theatrical performance approved by the Organising Committee. The original membership of GoDA consisted of forty-six founder members; the admission of additional members has 3. The language of the production must be English. been carried out mainly by means of rigorous testing of candidates on all aspects of adjudication. 4. No group is permitted to submit more than one competing entry to the same FEATS. 5. No member of a participating group may be paid for taking part in FEATS. Members of GoDA are drawn from a wide range of professional and amateur theatrical and performance backgrounds 6. Under no circumstances is any Participant permitted to attempt to influence the adjudicator or to communicate and include actors, directors, stage managers, designers, teachers, vocal coaches and writers. More than eighty per cent with him concerning any dispute. of our members have professional stage experience as actors, directors or stage managers and many members continue 7. The filming, video or tape-recording of any performance, even for personal use, is expressly forbidden during to work in professional theatre, broadcasting and performance. the public performance. 8. Failure to comply with any of these rules of competition could lead to disqualification from part or all of the competition. Most members of GoDA are willing to adjudicate at speech and drama festivals and to lecture on drama and various 9. Each entry must be at least twenty-five minutes in length and must not exceed fifty minutes. The time allowed aspects of theatrical art. Members may also be available as directors of plays, operas, musicals and workshops. for setting the opening scene is ten minutes and for striking the set at the end of the performance is five minutes. 10. Decisions of the FEATS 2015 Organising Committee, including the Festival Stage Management Team, concerning Copyright GoDA. For further information please see www.godauk.org interpretation of these rules and on all matters relating to the running of the Festival will be final and binding on all Participants.

8 9 Friday 22 May group 1 Friday 22 May group 2 Esoc Theatre Group (Darmstadt) Anglophone Collaborative Theatre of Stuttgart

A Friend of a Friend This Side of the Gestapo By Bruno Sousa / Directed by Bruno Sousa By Stuart Marlow / Directed by Raluca Urea

Sam couldn’t say no to his friend, Jacques, because friends help each other. And so it happens that Sam and his wife, This Side Of The Gestapo, the hitherto undiscovered memoirs of Hildegard Freud (née Sarah Stringer), gives us a unique Helen, agree to host a friend of Jacques’ for ‘just a couple of days’ – much to Helen’s disapproval and Sam’s excitement. perspective of life in war-torn Stuttgart between 1942 and 1945. Englishwoman Hildegard Freud’s take on life as a What ensues is a lot of trouble and a lot of laughs. Will Sam and Helen pull through their ordeal? forced labourer in Nazi throws an offbeat yet compellingly human light onto one of the darkest chapters in European history. Three years into a desperately unhappy marriage to a Frenchman twenty years her senior Hildegard faced an agonizing choice; either to remain with her husband in Nazi occupied Alsace or to be sent as a forced labourer to Germany. As the latter option meant liberation from a marriage that was destroying her physically and emotionally, she chose it as the lesser of two evils.

Cast Cast

Sam Johnson ...... Carlo Ghisi Hildegard Freud ...... Cynthia Goettle Greenwood Helen Johnson ...... Hayley Letori Hildegard Frankel Raluca Urea Susan ...... Gerrit-Milena Strätling Hanna Koch Lisa Ritchie Frau Arntz ...... Chelsea Werder Crew Herr Arntz ...... Reid Nielson Stage Manager ...... Mark Grundy André Freud ...... Alexander Wiedmann Lighting ...... James Usmar Karin Halle Anja Lange Sound ...... James Usmar Wardrobe & Makeup ...... Moira Grundy Crew Asha Parmar Stage Manager ...... Erkki Raemet Prompt Franka Nagel Lighting ...... Kai Goetz Stage crew Ethan Peterson Sound ...... Patrick Rucireto Rauno Ots Lighting & Video ...... Kai Goetz Sound ...... Patrick Rucireto Production Team Stefanie Bissinger Elisa Arianos Loic Fürhof Clemens Helmchen

The ESOC Theatre Group was founded in 1988 and is a non-profit social organisation – part of the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) of the European Space Agency (ESA) located Founded in 2002, ACTS (Stuttgart) is a joint venture in Anglophone Actor in Darmstadt, Germany. Our mission is to provide a background for its members to practise and Media Training, Writers’ Workshops (pitch and scratch) and Multi- theatre as a hobby and to make theatre in English available to an international community Platform Promotion focusing on practical co-operation between trainee actors, of enthusiasts in and around Darmstadt. The main activities of the ESOC Theatre Group are the production of professionals and students. Performances include experimental media backed public amateur theatre plays, play reading sessions, workshops, theatre trips and other theatre related activities. and conventional stage plays, event-media, immersion theatre and dramatized The ESOC Theatre Group currently has around 50 members of many nationalities. readings. Topics range from dramatized controversies to revisiting historical issues. www.esoctheatre.org www.acts.hdm-stuttgart.de, Facebook ACTS-on-Campus

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10 11 Friday 22 May group 3 saturday 23 May group 1 Stockholm Players InPlayers International Drama Group (Amsterdam)

The Dice Virtual Reality by Forbes Bramble / Directed by Nigel Harvey By Alan Arkin / Directed by Sandy Topzand

Three prisoners are allocated to the same cell. Adapting to the situation and ‘making the most of life’ locked up they find Two men are waiting for equipment to do an unspecified job. The one who is in charge insists on doing a dry-run a unique way of settling arguments and making decisions in their imprisoned world. When the Warder arrives with the inventory of the equipment expected. Here, the purely hypothetical assumes a wacky, sinister autonomy that transports news that one of the prisoners is to be relocated the dice are used to decide who is to be moved. The outcome of this them to a frozen wilderness: they grow close, they grow apart and they become mortal enemies. A gem of nuanced decision forces the inmates to reassess the power of The Dice. interaction, Virtual Reality is a deftly constructed, two-handed exercise built on back-and-forth shifts of mood and is a deeply funny, finely graded psychological portrait that also becomes a tribute to the conjuring powers of theatre. Imagine the testy, silly one-upmanship of Abbott and Costello crossed with the menacing ambiguity of Harold Pinter and you’ll get the idea.

Cast nd 2 Prisoner Seyed M Hosseini rd 3 Prisoner ...... Tom Howland Old Man ...... Nigel Harvey Warder ...... Borja Fontalva

Crew

Stage Manager ...... Jonian Grazhdani Lighting & Sound . . . . .Jonian Grazhdani Make-up Andreja Klavžar Props ...... Vikram Sundarasekhar Photos Sarah Tehranian

Cast Crew

De Recha ...... Brian Andre Stage Manager ...... Sandy Topzand Lefty ...... Eli Thorne Lighting ...... John Ricker Sound ...... Alex McKenzie With roots in the 1920s, The Stockholm Players is by far the oldest English-language theatre group in Sweden. In addition to staging two major productions a year, the group runs an ongoing programme of play readings, workshops and other theatre-related activities. Notwithstanding its amateur status, InPlayers International Drama Group (Amsterdam) are a passionate group of individuals from all over the the company has distinguished itself by consistently offering high-standard performances. Its world – a melting pot of creative minds if we say so ourselves. We vary in age, level of experience, mind- members are drawn from various walks of life and nationalities. However, they all have one common set and of course opinion. Add this to the dramatic and emotional theatre environment and you get an denominator – their love of English-language theatre. explosive mix of free spirits, strong personalities, fierce ambitions, creative expression and powerful energy. www.stockholmplayers.se www.inplayers.org

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12 13 saturday 23 May group 2 saturday 23 may group 3 English Comedy Club (Brussels) New English American Theatre (Stuttgart)

War Brides The Diaries of Adam and Eve By Marion Craig Wentworth / Directed by Conrad Toft By Mark Twain (adapted by Elton Townend Jones) / Directed by Charles C. Urban

Europe is at war. The young women of a small rural village in an unnamed country are being strongly encouraged In this witty and modern adaptation of Mark Twain’s affectionate satire, Adam and Eve (the world’s first ‘couple’) to become ‘war brides’ – to marry the young men going into battle and produce the next generation of soldiers for confront their many differences to find successful ways of living and loving together. Whether they’re creating language, the Empire. But what happens when some of them refuse? Marion Craig Wentworth’s play was a runaway success in inventing fire, taming nature or discovering love and death, what they learn about each other on the way will be familiar America in 1915 and made into a film in 1916 before being banned when the USA joined World War I. and funny to anyone who has ever experienced a close relationship. Relationships! Whose idea was that? One of you wants to get things done, the other wants to chill out in the garden. One of you wants a minute’s peace, the other wants to talk (and talk and talk). One of you likes things the way they are, the other wants change. One of you knows that eating the apple is wrong, but the other is going to eat it anyway. Relationships shouldn’t work but somehow they do. The play explores, in a very accessible way, companionship, its challenges and consolations and has some really moving Cast moments among the laughs and smiles. Joan ...... Peyton Cimino Amelia ...... Izzy Poston Mother Joanna Patrick Hoffman Richard Daly Minna ...... Amanda E. Ekdahl Arno Gareth Lewis Bragg ...... Andy Blumenthal

Crew

Stage Manager ...... Andy Ing Lighting ...... Barbara Daw Sound ...... Steve O’Byrne Producer Kerry Lydon Assistant Stage Manager ...... Kristina Kardum Cast Crew Crew ...... Rachel Heijkoop Eve Felice Becker Stage Manager ...... Claire Deromelaere Janet Middleton Adam ...... Christian Reichel Lighting ...... Charles C. Urban Eileen Sutton Sound ...... Charles C. Urban Costumes Fiona McGinnis Assistant Stage Manager ...... Uka Meissner-deRuiz

NEAT stands for New English American Theatre. The idea was conceived in 1991 as a means of making English-language plays more widely available to Stuttgart audiences. From the beginning the aim of NEAT has been to provide theatregoers with uncompromising presentations of original version English-language theatre as it may be experienced in the country of its origin. We prefer to challenge the non-native speaking members of our audience rather than simplifying the text or unnecessarily accenting the visual aspects of a production for their sake. Our productions, which have included musical theatre, children’s theatre, staged monologues, one-act Formed in 1909, ECC Brussels is a founder member of FEATS. It co-owns the Warehouse plays and music & poetry projects are authentic and our audiences are truly appreciative. NEAT is regularly invited to Studio Theatre – a 65-seat theatre, rehearsal space, workshop and store with the American participate in Stuttgart’s intercultural events and has long become a fixture on the city’s theatre landscape. We are a talented Theatre Company and Irish Theatre Group. The ECC performs three or four shows a year international team who are often called upon for radio, television, film and advertising projects whenever the necessity for both at the Studio and in larger theatres around Brussels. It also holds monthly play read- native English speaking actors should arise. Most actors on the NEAT stage are professionally trained in theatre craft but ings throughout the year. For more information have a look at the website http://ecc.theatreinbrussels.com. The group earn their livelihood in a wide variety of serious and conventional occupations. At FEATS 2015, we will be performing an looks forward to hosting FEATS 2016 from 5 to 8 May 2016. excerpt from the play that ends with Eve’s fateful bite into the apple; mankind is still reverberating from the consequences! ecc.theatreinbrussels.com www.neat-theater.de

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14 15 sunday 24 May group 1 sunday 24 May group 2 Lucerne World Theatre Company American Theatre Company (Brussels)

The Actor’s Nightmare Spoon River Anthology By Christopher Durang / Directed by Charlie Lucarotti By Edward Lee Masters (adapted by Christopher Flores) / Directed by Christopher Flores

A man finds himself inexplicably in the backstage area of a theatre 30 minutes before a performance begins. When Meg, One hundred years ago, Edgar Lee Masters gave life to the deceased citizens of Spoon River through the creation of over the stage manager, confronts him it becomes apparent that the man, George, is the understudy for an actor who has 200 epitaphs written in free verse poetry. At the time of publication it was considered modern and revolutionary and been involved in an accident and he must perform in his stead. George can’t remember attending any rehearsals or even its brilliance is evident in its continued thematic relevance and contemporary style. The American Theatre Company’s being an actor at all – he doesn’t know what the play is! Haven’t we all had similar nightmares? But what if this isn’t a adaptation explores Masters’ critique on the game humanity plays and the powers that move the pieces. nightmare and his life really is at risk? After all, we are such stuff as dreams are made on.

Cast First Voice; Benjamin Pantier; Indignation Jones; Eugene Carmen; Editor Whedon; Thomas Rhodes . . . . . Johan Enegren Second voice /Beelzebub; Emily Sparks; Minerva Jones; Sersmith the Dentist; Jack McGuire Abigail Greef Loki; Reuben Pantier; Doctor Meyers; Judge Selah Lively; Ralph Rhodes Yorgos Filippakis Yogarindra; Mrs. Pantier; Mrs. Meyers; Daisy Fraser; Mrs. George Reece ...... Robynn Colwell Trainor, the Druggist; Butch Weldy; Clarence Fawcett; Hildrup Tubbs ...... Michael Price

Henry Phipps ...... Christopher Flores

Crew

Cast Crew Stage Manager ...... Kallina Christoforidi George ...... Derk van Mourik Stage Manager ...... Hedwig van Ingen Lighting ...... Michael Price Sarah ...... Marco Taddei Lighting ...... Tony Aherne Sound ...... Christopher Flores/Michael Price Ellen Claudia Croce Sound ...... Natasha Pecher Backstage help ...... Dimitar Stoyanov Meg ...... Melanie Lienhard Costumes Yvonne Bauer Lighting operator . . . . . Musab Buyuksoy Henry David Parrott Producer Inge Knapen Executioner Chris Lee Myriam Langford, a professional actress who studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Founded in September 2011, The Lucerne World Theatre Company (LWTC) is an amateur Arts and the Actor’s Studio in New York, convinced the entertainment committee of the English-language theatre group that thrives on a passion for drama and the performance American Women’s Club to try ‘something different’. Myriam’s professionalism was teamed with arts. Built on the principles of fun and inclusion, the club offers a gateway to the stage to its accomplished amateur actor Charles Besterman to create the American Theatre Company in members who hail from all corners of the globe. LWTC offers its members acting classes as 1969. Langford and Besterman set high standards of personal dedication and professionalism. well as opportunities to get involved in stage productions. To date, LWTC has staged numerous diverse shows including These same values resonate in the ATC today as we continuously strive to increase the level of professionalism in our Bollywood Brides, an Indian-inspired musical extravaganza, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and It’s on you, John, for productions. Just over a year ago the ATC tried ‘something different’ by launching its very own resident improv’ troupe, which LWTC won the 2014 Grand Duchy Award for best stage presentation at the FEATS theatre festival in Luxembourg. The Ghost Sheep, which has now become a central part of our theatre company. www.lwtc.ch www.atcbrussels.com

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16 17 sunday 24 May group 3 sunday 24 May Theater de WAANzin (Ghent) FEATS Party & Organised Activities

The Elephant Song By Nicholas Billon / Directed by Roeland de Trazegnies

An eminent psychiatrist has vanished from his office. The last person to see him is Michael, a troubled patient obsessed with all things elephant. Dr Greenberg, the hospital director, is determined to interrogate Michael, despite the head nurse’s cryptic warnings. Michael speaks of elephants and opera – with the occasional hint of murder and foul play – and lures the hospital director into a devious trap.

Cast

Michael Aleen ...... Laurens Van Der Beken Dr Greenberg ...... Antoine Vandenberghe Miss Peterson ...... Joke Van Huffel (but surprises happen …)

Crew Stage Manager ...... Roeland de Trazegnies The Feats Party Lighting ...... Guy Verzele Sound and camera Lars De Jaegher Will take place on Sunday 24 May directly after the adjudication. The FEATS party will be held in the Café Oelsner of Crew ...... Roeland de Trazegnies the Altonaer Theater. Entry to the party is with pre-booked tickets only. No tickets will be available to purchase over the Marnix Van Hamme weekend. Please collect your pre-paid tickets from the FEATS hospitality desk. An Vanden Broeck Laurens Van Der Beken Joke Van Huffel Organised Activities Visit To Miniatur Wunderland Sunday 24 May at 11.00 a.m.

We have reserved a time-slot for 35 people to visit this amazing exhibition, the largest model railway in the world. This really is a ‘Must See’: it is impossible to do justice to the attention to detail, craftsmanship and expertise in either Theater de WAANzin was founded in 1988 in Ghent, Belgium. Our Theater De WAANzin is words or facts and figures. You simply have to see it for yourself. the continuation of a student theatre group, formed at the University of Ghent by a number of Sign up at the hospitality desk students of English literature. It has always tried either to stage modern, not well-known scripts or to adapt theatre hits to a modern setting or way of acting. The word WAANzin, meaning ‘insanity’, consists of two parts. ‘WAAN’ (dream, revel, illusion) and ‘zin’ (sense, meaning). What Guided Walk Through and Altona especially attracted us was the opposition of two contradicting items: WAAN in the meaning of hope, desire and illusion. Illusion being the theatrical metaphor ‘par excellence‘, but also the indissoluble touchstone of Sunday 24 May and Monday 25 May at 11.00 a.m. life of which the dream (‘WAAN’) often is the only meaning (‘zin‘). www.dewaanzin.be Leisure time during a FEATS weekend often includes a walk of some description and as walks are usually popular, the guided walk will take place on Sunday and Monday. Find out more about the history and culture of Altona – it has a lot to offer. A 40 P 35 S 15 D 10 Total 100 Sign up at the hospitality desk

18 19 monday 25 May group 1 monday 25 May group 2 New World Theatre Club (Luxembourg) Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre

The Strange Horseman Snowdrop By Michel de Ghelderode / Directed by John Brigg By Mike Riepl / Directed by Mike Riepl

Michel de Ghelderode (1898 to 1962) was an avant-garde Flemish dramatist who wrote wonderful, surreal and macabre A lonely old man, fiercely independent and burnished by the wounds of the past, is visited first by his son, later by his plays about the human condition. This early work, Flemish in character yet written in French under the title Le Cavalier cherished granddaughter. An irascible, preoccupied son conceals worries of his own; the granddaughter a typical child Bizarre, is no exception. The play takes a look at what happens when a group of people who are living out their last days of the ‘lost generation’. Relationships are strained, but by no means strange; recollections of the past loom large. But are in an ancient hospice for the destitute are suddenly confronted with death. Although the play draws from a time before these memories what they appear to be? Even when they take on tangible form, which are real and which are deception? the lingering medieval beliefs of ‘old’ Europe were brutally exposed to the modern age, the question is as valid now as Even when the border between the two can be filled with laughter and joy, there comes a point where inner confusion it was then. spills over into a reality that can ultimately end up harming those we love.

Cast

The Watcher Janine Horsburgh Old People ...... Christine Mitchell Steve Wilkie Cast Angela Milne Reg ...... Eric Beveridge Giampaolo Spedo David Ivan Aksenov Lesley Chesters Jackie ...... Alexandra Sokolowski John Brigg Julie ...... Sumithra Retnam Wendy Dunning-Baker Crew

Crew Stage Manager ...... Jeff Book Stage Manager ...... Gav Guilfoyle Asst. Stage Manager ...... Daniela von der Emden Lighting ...... Laure Gatter Lighting & Sound ...... Yassin Bounakhla Sound ...... Laure Gatter Costumes & Make-Up . . . . . Julie Regenbogen Live sound ...... Evelyne Bastien Props ...... Sabrina Lotz Production design ...... John Brigg Stage Hand David Mark Costumes Katie Bull Translation and adaptation John Brigg

The New World Theatre Club of Luxembourg has been staging plays in English for more than 45 years FEST e.V. is the oldest and largest English-language amateur theatre group in the Frankfurt/Rhein-Main and attracts members of many different nationalities. It runs a thriving youth theatre group and hosts region. Founded by a group of British expats in 1977, FEST has since staged productions of every kind: LEATSS, the Luxembourg European Annual Theatre Summer School. NWTC has been a member of the drama, comedy, musical, cabaret, and – last but definitely not least – that magical box of Christmas fun, FEATS steering committee since 1978. the British pantomime. FEST will be hosting FEATS again in 2017 at the English Theatre in Frankfurt. www.nwtc.lu www.festfrankfurt.org

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20 21 monday 25 May group 3 The Village Players (Lausanne) The Awards Nine prizes will be awarded at the end of the Festival. The adjudicator will decide the allocation of these prizes with In The Middle of Nowhere the exception of the Stage Management Award which will be decided upon by the Festival Stage Management team. By Christopher Hemmens / Directed by James Spencer & Christopher Hemmens The adjudicator may choose not to give the DAW-Verulam Award for best original script.

In The Middle Of Nowhere is a farcical family comedy about Kate, a 30-something, newly-cosmopolitan university lec- turer who travels home to see her parents, Penny and Bill, in their new house on the weekend of her father’s 60th birthday. It isn’t long before she’s butting heads with her fiercely right-wing father while her mother tries to keep the peace. Award My Prediction Winner Things take a turn for the surreal, however, when a strange man called Fish, who claims to have been exiled from a cult in the woods, barges in on their breakfast and refuses to leave. The Founders’ Trophy (donated by the AATG) Best Production

Cast The ECC Centennial Cup Kate Béibhinn Regli Second Best Production Penny ...... Pamela Jenkins Bill Charles Gilson Fish ...... Christopher Hemmens The BATS Trophy Third Best Production Crew

Stage Manager ...... Derek Betson Lighting ...... Ian Griffiths The Blackie Awards Sound ...... Mary Couper Best Actor Stage Crew ...... Saskia Faulk Dorothy Brooks Best Actress Tim Hancox Deerstalks Riverbrook (voice) Heather Gavin Commune Elder (voice) Dorothy Brooks The Grand Duchy Trophy Commune Elder (voice) James Spencer Best Stage Presentation

Marcel Huhn/Bruno Boeye Memorial Award Best Stage Management

The Village Players is one of five amateur drama groups in French-speaking Switzerland but the DAW-Verulam Award only one in the Lausanne region. Founded in 1981, the VPs stage two productions per year and Best Original Script present drama evenings (play readings, poetry, cabaret, theatre quizzes) once a month at their premises near Lausanne city centre. Although English-speaking, the group is multi-national and welcomes members from all cultures and creeds. Indeed, in a recent production of Tolkien’s The Hobbit all of the Don Luscombe dwarves spoke with pronounced French accents (speaking English of course but the actors were all Francophones). Discretionary Award Former trophy-winners at FEATS, the Village Players are once again happy and honoured to be part of Europe’s Discretionary Award foremost Anglophonic theatre festival. www.villageplayers.ch

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Saturday May 23 13.00–14.00 Body-language workshop 13.00 – 13.50 F i R nGe Giorgi Rossi, InPlayers, Amsterdam A Chip in the Sugar / Alan Bennett When it comes to acting, the way you carry yourself can communicate far more than the words that come out of Rover Rep, Hamburg your mouth. For actors, body language study becomes extremely important. To go into the ‘skin of the character’ A Chip in The Sugar is one of the most popular monologues from Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads series. Middle- one needs to look into every aspect of their body language. The workshop seeks a greater understanding of one’s aged Graham, who still lives with his mother, finds life becoming complicated when his mother meets an old body and a predicted reading of the other’s body. flame. The Rover Rep Theatre was established in 2003 by Rebecca Garron as Hamburg’s first and only professional pub theatre. For ten years it provided native-speaking actors and directors living in Hamburg an opportunity to 14.10 – 14.40 work professionally in their native language and to introduce the German public to significant contemporary Songs from a Native Son playwrights writing in English. How better to celebrate FEATS in Hamburg than with some of the world’s most popular songs composed, though you may not have known it, by one of Hamburg’s native sons? A trio of local actors and singers who have worked 14.00 – 14.30 with several of Hamburg’s English-language theatres will be treating you to some big-band music you’re bound Tech Booth / Daniel J. Karpenchuk to recognize. University Players, Hamburg 14.50 – 15.20 Eternal Love, opening night. Quite a challenge for Darryl and Christine in the tech booth. The play is so ridiculous that not even the director shows up, the actresses hate each other, Darryl hates his job, Christine hates Darryl’s Lane 147 – One Act for Calais / Stuart John Marlow girlfriend – and no one ever appreciates the stage managers! ACTS, Stuttgart (Performance and scripts in aid of refugee charities) Calais harbour, once a featureless hurdle on the route to England, is now a vast fortress, protecting vulnerable 14.40 – 15.10 car ferries against thousands of refugees who are storming the harbour walls. But intrepid Midlands motorist, The Scheme / Mike Riepl Michael Leslie, shows no fear. Ah, but then there’s a sudden twist to the whole story. FEST, Frankfurt 15.30 – 15.15 On the brink of initiating an infallible long-planned money-spinning scheme, one of two partners suddenly finds he can’t provide the essential final touches. Tensions rise as his frustrated partner does his utmost to bringThe Who’s on First Scheme to a successful conclusion after all. A surprise visitor inadvertently brings the conflict to a dramatic head. Hamburg Players This famous Abbott and Costello comedy routine evolved from early 20th-century Vaudeville and English music 15.20 – 15.50 hall routines using comic misunderstandings of names and words. The subject, baseball, touches a cultural nerve The Night of the Cupid / Giorgi Rossi in the United States and the routine runs in a continuous loop at the Baseball Hall of Fame. InPlayers, Amsterdam 15.15 – 16.00 Giorgi Rossi, a Brazilian actor, has been playing the character of Cupid, the God of love, for seventeen years. Cupid, the God of Love, appeals for your help and humour to survive with his romantic and happy little monologue about love. Audition / David Crowe Tagora 16.00 – 16.30 This play was inspired by the Theatres Act of 1968, which abolished the powers of the Lord Chamberlain to censor Elements of Imperfection stage performances in Britain. Our sketch takes place about a year later, when theatrical liberties had become a part of life for those in the business – but maybe not for the aspiring performers. Tat Company, The Hague The one-act performance portrays an array of specifically chosen Shakespeare Sonnets, supported by drone sounds of female voices based on Lied von Shakespeare by Brahms. The performance uses a psycho-physical approach, in which transformation, impulse, imagination and inner and outer gesture are central. 25 24 sunday May 24 www.hamburgplayers.de 16.10 – 16.40 Bedtime / Mary Gallagher Hamburg Players It’s that time of day when you’re supposed to sleep but can’t because your e . V. mind is exploding with too many thoughts. Kitty and Tina, two pre-teen sisters in the 1950s, ponder life’s big questions such as: what does forever mean? Hamburg Players Madeleine Lange and Elena Kaufman present this The Hamburg Players heart-warming one-act. monday May 25

14.00 – 15.00 FEATS Forum in Café Oelsner 15.00 – 15.30 Jane O’Brien & Band Jane presents her own brand of gutsy songs: a spicy mix of jazz and pop, with chilled out beats and Irish roots, tempered with passion and a wry look at where we are at today. She is backed by four top-class musicians: Torge Niemann on guitar, Ralf Kamphuis on vibraphone, Karlo Buerschaper on bass and Björn Puls on drums. Cool jazz pop with a very warm heart. 15.40 – 16.10 Love, Loss, and What I Wore Nora and Delia Ephron Hamburg Players Ellen Bergman, Valerie Doyle, Rebecca Garron, Carol Kloevekorn &

Amy Lee perform a series of monologues and ensemble pieces about

women, clothes and memory covering all the important subjects: mothers, prom dresses, mothers, buying bras, mothers, hating purses and why we

only wear black.

16.20 FEATS Skit e G R The one and only, the legendary. Don’t miss then traditional Festival revue. i F

4 – 6 and 9 – 13 June 2015 Licensed by ITV Global Entertainment Limited and an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon All performances begin at 7.30pm. Premiere Thursday 4th June – tickets €10. All other tickets €10 to €16. Matinee Saturday 6th June at 3.30pm. Tickets can be bought online at www.tickets.hamburgplayers.de, Theaterkasse Schumacher or at box office on evening of the performance. Reservations can be made by e-mail 26 – [email protected], or by phoning Hamburg Players Hotline 040/713 13 99. Marschnerstr. 46, 22081 Hamburg, Abendkasse Tel. 040/29 26 65

P hoto Herwig Lührs /Original D esign: www.ruehl-design.de Graphic THEATER AN DER MARSCHNERSTRASSE Years of the H amburg Players 50ay 7 and 8, 1965 – Two successful nights featuring he Hamburg Players Chairs have been to date: Peter Big- Mfour one-act plays performed in English by a group Tglestone, Elizabeth Fleming, Chris Turner, Alexander of Hamburg based expats and the Hamburg Players e.V. Black, Sonny Pathak, Catherine Schwerin, and Valerie Doyle. amateur theatre group was born. The first full-length play was Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan, who was very 143 productions directed by 57 directors, sometimes in popular at the time. The rehearsals took place in the cellar pairs, more often alone of the British Consulate, with performances on the 21st and 22nd October 1965 in the former Unilever House, with the We have dared 3 Shakespeare plays: A Midsummer Night’s profit of DM 2100 being donated to UNICEF. The US army Dream, 2001; Much Ado About Nothing, 2010 and Twelfth in Bremerhaven was so delighted by this new opportunity Night in 2014. for English language entertainment in the region that they offered to build the sets for subsequent performances, in Our most played authors are Alan Ayckbourne (8 plays), return for a performance in their local garrison theatre. Agatha Christie (7 Plays) Noel Coward (7 plays), Neil Simon (7 plays), reflecting what we have – we hope – learned to be he shows increasingly began to attract a German your, our audience’s favourites: comedy rather than tragedy, Taudience, looking to brush up or improve their murder mystery rather than drama. English skills, and the number of performances increased accordingly. Performances began in the Theater an der We have put on two original plays, both of them adaptations Marschnerstraße in 1967, at first with four shows a year, of famous novels, on our stage: A Christmas Carol, 2009; later reduced to three shows a year in 1975 with 9–10 Pride and Prejudice, 2013 performances per show. With The 39 Steps at the end of the 50th season, the Hamburg Players can look back For our 143 productions 495 actors from 15 different coun- over 144 productions, 42 of which were directed by the tries were put on stage; many of them again and again, some ‘grandfather’ and Chairman of many years, Peter Bigglestone, of them once only, some of them screaming and kicking. with the remainder directed by 58 different directors. The Hamburg Players stage has felt the tread of 492 actors, e have participated in FEATS 15 times and have many only once, and some on many occasions. This reflects Wwon two awards for best Stage Management (1985 the dynamic nature of the Hamburg Players’ membership – and 2009), 4 awards for Best Actress (Rebecca Garron and welcoming many English-speaking students or employees Lexi von Hoffmann 1995, Valerie Doyle and Julie Spanswick of international companies who come to Hamburg for only 2011, Amanda Lee 2013 and Ellen Bergman 2014), 1 award one or two years. Some of our actors have even gone on for Best Actor (Jason Couch 2000), 1 award for third best to make a name for themselves outside of the Players, for play (The Furies, an original play by Elena Kaufman, 2008), example Pamela Knaack, Mark Lyndon and Susanne Mewe. 3 awards for second best play (The Actor’s Nightmare by Christopher Durang, directed by Elaine Lloyd Barnett 2000, he many years of regular productions have led to a Babel’s in Arms by David Ives, directed by Carol Kammerer Tprofessionalism that cannot be shaken. On one occa- in 2011 and For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls by sion an actor lost his voice completely but continued to play Christopher Durang, directed by Valerie Doyle in 2013) and his character while remaining mute with his lines delivered 2 awards for best play (Foxtales by James Pascoe, directed from the side of the stage by another actor, Mark Lyndon. by Rebecca Garron and Joana O’Neil 2002 and Amateurs by Within a couple of performances the two were completely David Auburn, directed by Valerie Doyle in 2014). synchronised – lips and (disembodied) voice, much to the delight of, and with deserved praise from, the audience. 2009 Brussels, Belgium 2012 Antwerp, Belgium First place New World Theatre Club First place Entity Theatre Second place Stockholm Players Second place Theater de WAANzin Third place Het Homerostheater Third place CATS Rheindahlen Past Best presentation Best presentation American Theatre Company CATS Rheindahlen Stage management Hamburg Players Stage management English Comedy Club Original script Not awarded Original script Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre Best actor Wander Bruijel Best actor Daniel Holzberg (Het Homerostheater) (Entity Theatre) FEATSWinners Best actress Antonia Kitzel Best actress Anne Wollstein (Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre) (Entity Theatre) Discretionary award Anglophone Collaborative Theatre of Discretionary award Geneva English Drama Society (2005 to 2014) Stuttgart – Film sequence in Shakespeare in Paris by Stuart Marlow 2013 The Hague, Netherlands First place American Theatre Company 2010 Bad Homburg, Germany Second place Hamburg Players First place New World Theatre Club Third place Stockholm Players 2005 Hamburg, Germany 2007 The Hague, Netherlands Second place English Comedy Club Best presentation Stockholm Players First place English Comedy Club First place English Comedy Club Third place Geneva English Drama Society Stage management ESOC Theatre Group Second place New English American Theatre Second place Irish Theatre Group Best presentation Theater de WAANzin Original script ESOC Theatre Group Third place Theatre in English/ Third place American Theatre Company Stage management ESOC Theatre Group Best actor Andrew Carey-Yard Theatre in Education Best presentation Village Players Original script British American Theatrical Society (New English American Theatre) Best presentation Stockholm Players Stage management Bonn Players Best actor Timothy Lone Best actress Amanda Lee (Hamburg Players) Stage management British American Theatrical Society Original script Anglophone Collaborative (New World Theatre Club) Discretionary award Village Players – Awarded to Original script Geneva English Drama Society Theatre of Stuttgart Best actress Melanie Zander Gwen Czajkowska for her Best actor Colum Hatchell Best actor Caraigh McGregor (ESOC Theatre Group) non-speaking role in The Stronger (English Comedy Club) (English Comedy Club) Discretionary award British American Theatrical Best actress Debbie Roche (CATS Rheindahlen) Best actress Margot Nisita Society – Eric Tytgadt and Discretionary award Theatre in English/ (Bonn Players) Tom de Beckker Theatre in Education – for bravery Discretionary award Stockholm Players in Oh, My God! by Daniel Sossi 2014 Mamer, Luxembourg First place Hamburg Players Second place Semi-Circle Third place Irish Theatre Group 2006 Ettelbruck, Luxembourg 2008 Stockholm, Sweden 2011 Geneva, Switzerland Best presentation Lucerne World Theatre Company First place Brussels Shakespeare Society First place Bonn Players First place Bonn Players Stage management AATG Second place Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre Second place Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre Second place Hamburg Players Original script Entity Theatre Third place American Theatre Company Third place Hamburg Players Third place Semi-Circle Best actor Caraigh McGregor Best presentation Theater de WAANzin Best presentation Entity Theatre Best presentation Tagora (Irish Theatre Group) Stage management Anglophone Collaborative Stage management Irish Theatre Group Stage management ESOC Theatre Group & Best actress Ellen Bergman (Hamburg Players) Theatre of Stuttgart Original script Irish Theatre Group Stockholm Players Discretionary award New English American Theatre – Original script Brussels Shakespeare Society Best actor Caraigh McGregor Original script Not awarded the opening sequence in Best actor Caraigh McGregor (Brussels Shakespeare Society) Best actor Peter Ferrow (Bonn Players) & Death by Woody Allen (American Theatre Company) Best actress Greta Redmond Scott Jacobs (Bonn Players) Best actress Antonia Kitzel (New English American Theatre) Best actress Valerie Doyle (Hamburg Players) & (Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre) Discretionary award Theatre in English/ Julie Spanswick (Hamburg Players) Discretionary award Theatre in English/ Theatre in Education – for teamwork Discretionary award Het Homerostheater – for the luggage Theatre in Education – for lighting that converted into furniture

30 31 Valerie Doyle Poppy Tirard The Organising Thanks to all the Hamburg Players who have volunteered, whether contributing to the website, working backstage, Committee front-of-house and on hospitality:

for FEATS 2015 Jessica Albiston Jocasta Godlieb Birgit Lüdemann Winter Cathy Barreca Eddie Gray Lynda Matschke in Hamburg Ellen Bergman Jonathan Greenman Marion McAlpine Chair Secretary Felicity Blecke Dagmar Hadaway Petra Ninnemann Lexi v. Hoffmann Carol Kloevekorn Henrik Zawischa Julian St. Clair Charlotte Bock Syd Hadaway Ronnie Nowak Renate Brandt Liz Härtwig Joana O’Neil Jason Couch Sarah Jung Reni Pathak Stephen Earl Elena Kaufman Daniel Plappert Denise von Fuerstenberg Marlies König Alex Robertson Rebecca Garron Ute Kreitz Iara Sandorminski Nele Giese Madeleine Lange Martin Scheibe Sandra Giese Kris Löschmann Chris Turner

Stage Manager Hospitality webmaster Programme/PR

Julie Spanswick Amy Lee Tom White Meg McFarlane

The FEATS community suffered a sad loss last August with the untimely death of Nola Dutton Nola first became involved in FEATS when she appeared in the AATG entry for the 1987 FEATS in Antwerp where she won best supporting actress. She later became Chair of the AATG and member of the organising committee when they hosted FEATS in 1990 in The Hague. It is believed that the idea of starting a FEATS Fringe was hers and certainly that was the first year that the Fringe appeared. She served as AATG representative on the Steering Committee for a number of years. Front of House Fringe Coordinator Lighting Coordinator Sound Coordinator Even after returning to the UK, she maintained her enthusiasm and support for FEATS Petra Nowak Harald Djürken Sonny Pathak Martina Plieger and brought a memorable production of The Incredible Adventures of Orca the Goldfish to the Fringe in 2001. Many will also remember her as the administrator for LEATSS for many years and a regular attendee of summer schools in Munsbach and Clairefontaine from 1990 to 2013 having attended no less than 17 times.

As a director, Nola was a firm advocate of the directing style taught at LEATSS which she introduced to the groups she worked with on Teesside in the UK. She also had occasion to bring it back to mainland Europe as visiting director for NWTC’s production of Picasso at The Lapin Agile in 2006.

She was a wonderful, warm and talented person and will be sorely missed by her family, many friends, and the English language amateur theatre world in the UK and mainland Europe. tickets Party Sponsors Group Logistics

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