Title: 1984 SADATA 1-Act Play Festival
Date: Tuesday 12th-Saturday 16th June 1984
Type: Drama Festival
Location: Library Theatre, Sheffield, England
Organiser: Sheffield and District Amateur Theatre Association
Collection Folder: Folder 30

Tuesday 12th June

Denys Edwards Players

Heroines and Heroes, by John Reason

Director: Catherine Radforth
Cast:
Claude: John Atkinson
Mildred: Pat Batty
Sidney: Martin Peacock
Clarence: Ian Beardshaw
Lottie: Val Mitchell
May: Beryl Heginbotham
Babs: Fiona Dickinson

Cavill-Rose Players

Then, by David Campton

Director: Roger Goddard
Cast:
Heath Block: Alf Oliver
Mr Phythick: Roger Philpotts
Miss Europe: Margaret Oates

Apex Players

Cathedral- Ten Minutes, by Peter Preston

Director: Steve Doyle
Cast:
Alice: Elsie Moreis
Dorothy: Bev Ward
The Bishop: Howard Morris
Humphrey de Sable: Andrew Byrne
The Abbess: Dorothy Betts
Cicely: Elaine Morris
Nicholas: Andy Abrahams
Gilbert Fitzgerald: Chris Peters
Lady Agatha: Colleen Withall

Wednesday 13th June

St Gabriel’s Dramatic Society

The Railwayman’s New Clothes, by Willis Hall

Director: Carolyn Heslop
Cast:
Mr Lumley: Jim Biggin
Mr Hartigan: Bob Chance
Charles Henshaw: Peter Arfield
Edith Henshaw: Judith Moore

Tudor Players

The Guilty Generation, by Margaret Wood

Director: Jack Parkin
Cast:
Old Marie: Audrey Andrews
Odette: June Gebhard
Old Henri: Bernie Charlesworth
Janine: Susan Andrews
Rene: Mike Smith
Michel: Jim Williamson
Marcelle: Joyce Leadwood
Marc: Scott Walker

Hull Electricity Players

Day of Atonement, by Margaret Wood

Director: Joyce Harker
Cast:
Jacob: Henry Smith
Marthe: Gladys A. Smith
Otto: Stephen Omer
Dr. Kraus: Alf Stainforth

Thursday 14th June

The 53 Theatre Group

A Separate Piece, by Tom Stoppard

Director: Andrea Waterhouse
Cast:
John Brown: Steve Crowther
Nurse: Mary Jackson
Doctor: Peter Donohue
Nurse Maggie Coates: Lindsay Moulton
Matron: Sheila Gascoyne
Nurse Jones: Hazel Neale

Sheffield University Staff Dramatic Society

The Fifteen Minute Hamlet, by Tom Stoppard

Director: Reg Mitchell
Cast:
Shakespeare/Claudius/Polonius/Ghost: Bill Royston
Marcellus/Bernardo/Laertes: Gary Wilson
Horatio/Osric/Gravedigger/Priest/Fortinbras: Adrian Tissier
Hamlet: Peter Maxwell
Gertrude: Bette Paul
Ophelia: Helen McCallum

Chesterfield Playgoers

Schubert’s Last Serenade, by Julie Bovasso

Director: Margaret Love
Cast:
The Maître D’: Colin Goddard
Alfred: Simon Gordon
Bebe: Heather Archer
The Waiter: Neil Showell
The Cook: Mike Dilly
Franz Schubert: Tommy Pollendine

Friday 15th June

Waggon and Horses Drama Group

Night of the Leeches, by Frank White

Director: Frank White
Cast:
Landlord: Steve Dawson
Bus Driver: Mark Schofield
Vita: June White
Mary: Diana Page
Beardy: Jane Beard
Sue: Sue Stafford
Jo: Charmain White
Peter: Neville Salmon
Janet: Ann Adams

Handsworth Operatic Society

Gosforth’s Fête, by Alan Ayckbourn

Director: Ian G. Walker
Cast:
Mrs Pearce: Sue Stones
Milly: Carol Field
Gosforth: Brian Bartholomew
Vicar: Keith Broomfield
Stewart: Ian Bartholomew

Greater Manchester Drama Federation (Inter-City Competition)

Harlequinade, by Terence Rattigan

Director: Edna Garner
Cast:
Arthur Gosport: Tom Hind
Edna Selby: Cecilia Bowers
Joannie: Doreen Wilding
Dame Maud Gosport: Barbara Williamson
Jack Wakefield: Duncan Walker
George Chudleigh: Walter Williamson
First Halberdier: Ian Armstrong
Miss Fishlock: Joyce Pomfret
Muriel Palmer: Val Middleton-Egan
Tom Palmer: Malcolm Cooper
Mr Burton: John Garner
Joyce Langland: Freda Hinson
Policeman: Ron Thompson
Fred Ingram: John Blackburn

Saturday 17th June

Sheffield University Staff Dramatic Society (Inter-City Competition)

Trompe L’Oeil, by Stephen Davis

Director: Michael Paul
Cast:
He: Richard Carwardine
She: Linda Kirk
Tweedy: Bill Rowlinson

Bradford and District Theatre Guild

A Slight Accident, James Saunders

Director: Margaret Biglands
Cast:
Harry: Philip Carroll
Penelope: Gladys Stocks
Camilla: Janet Abberton
Roger: Peter Conwell

Dewsbury Arts Groups

After the Picnic, by David Foxton

Director: David Wood
Cast:
Mlle. de Poitiers: Gloria Paton
Edith Horton: Alison Rust
Marion Quade: Helen Connor
Miranda Gresham: Susan Dillon
Irma Leopold: Sophie Drake
Miss. McCraw: Judith Wood
Sara Waybourne: Vicki O’Keefe
Mrs. Appleyard: Barbara Ryan

Awards

Presentation of Festival Awards, presented by the Lord Mayoress of Sheffield

Crew

For the SADATA Festival

Adjudicator: Ronald Whetton
Festival Director: Barry Allen
Festival Secretary: Royden Beniston
Festival Stage Director: Ted Andrews
Stage Manager: Ian Moss
Backstage Team: Members of SADATA Societies
Lighting: John Screaton, Paul Screaton
Sound: Mike Adams

House Manager: Doreen Bell
Ticket Secretary: Dorothy Hattersley

For Sheffield and District Amateur Theatre Association

Chairman: Barry Allen
Hon. Treasurer: Philip Bradburn
Hon. Secretary: Derek A. Francis
Committee: Ted Andrews, Royden Beniston, John Eaton, James Price, Betty Richardson, Pamela Saunders