Title: 1987 SADATA 1-Act Play Festival
Date: Thursday 9th-Saturday 13th June 1987
Type: Drama Festival
Location: Library Theatre, Sheffield, England
Organiser: Sheffield and District Amateur Theatre Association
Collection Folder: Folder 30

Tuesday 9th June

Apex Players

Our Man, by Daniel Clucas

Director: Howard Morris
Cast:
Phones: Janet Leeper
Sir: Stephen Doyle
Eyes: Elaine Morris
Ears: Andrew Byrne
Nose: Colleen Withall
Mouth: Charles Withall

Chesterfield Playgoers Society

Christmas in the Marketplace, by Henri Ghéon, translated and adapted from French into English by Eric Crozier

Director: Jean Meikle
Cast:
Old Melchior: Harry Goring
Columba, his wife: Nancie Morris
Joey, their son: Simon Gordon
Maria: Rosalie Hoskin
Bruno: Richard Spencer

Norton Lees Townswomen’s Guild

The Living Hell, by Anthony Booth

Director: Joy Moore
Cast:
‘Stevie’ Stevens: Val Morgan
Gwen Watkins: Gwen Hayward
Prue Davies: Sue Hartlebury
Mrs. Genn: Jo Green
Sally French: Margaret Goddard
Sister Lloyd: Linda Bate
Miss Maiche: Heather Porter

Wednesday 10th June

Hallam Theatre Club

The Dumb Waiter, by Harold Pinter

Director: Jane Hill
Cast:
Ben: Steve Gere
Gus: Graham Archer

New Venture Players

Sunshine on the Righteous, by David Campion

Director: Elaine Bullock
Cast:
Gerda: Hilla Wills
Aloysius: Michael Bullock
Ernest: Trevor Holmes

Hull Electricity Players

Celebration, the Wedding, by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall

Director: Joyce Harker
Cast:
The Bride (Christine Lucas): Sue Riley
Edgar Lucas (Her Father): Robert Pooley
Rhoda Lucas (Her Mother): Gladys A. Smith
Jack Lucas (Her Brother): Colin Freeman
Irene Howes (Her Cousin): Lisa Whiteley
Lilian Howes (Her Aunt): Sheila Pye
Frank Broadbent (Her Uncle): Mike Jackson
Arthur Broadbent (Her Great-Uncle): Henry Smith
Stan Dyson (Irene’s Fiancé): Chris Fairbank
The Groom (Bernard Fuller): David Cook
Edna Fuller (His Mother): Sheila Jackson
Alice Fuller (His Aunt): Elma Ray
Lionel Fuller (His Cousin): Ian Hartley
Margot Fuller (Lionel’s Wife): Susie Snowden

Thursday 11th June

St Gabriel’s Dramatic Society

White Liars, by Peter Shaffer

Director: Alan Cahm
Cast:
Sophie, Baroness Lemberg: Judy Williamsm
Frank: Steve Procter
Tom: Bob Chance

Arena Theatre Company

Yvette, by Philip Stagg

Director: Jeanne Richards
Cast:
Albine, Yvette’s Mother: Heather Hall
Jean Lorain: Philip Stagg
Yvette Guilbert: Pat Matthews
Max Schiller, Yvette’s husband: Stuart Puddephatt
Louis de Robert: Ken Ward

City Players

Come What May, by Kenneth Lillington

Director: Helen Cole
Cast:
Peter (The Producer): Richard Leivers
Joan (Edith Carstairs): Sandra Lynne
Eric (Sir Septimus): Jim Coster
Jim: Paul Cowley
Boy Scout: Chris Maher
Donald (S. Hawke): Peter Sweney

Friday 12th June

Tudor Players

The Devil His Due, by Seamus Fail

Director: Anthony Webb
Cast:
Old Frowsty: Mike Smith
The Dispenser: Sarah Woodcock
A Stranger: David Bramah
Mrs O’Reilly: Cindy Watson
Mrs Rorke: Marilyn Barker
A Policeman: Peter Howard
Father Higgins: Bernie Charlesworth
Father de Vecha: John Barritt
A White Witch: Linda Evans
A Patient: Andrea Waterhouse
The Patient’s Mother: Joyce Leadwood

Hasland Playgoers

A Kind of Alaska, by Harold Pintor

Director: Derek Wilkins
Cast:
Deborah: Audrey Jones
Hornby: Vernon Pitchford
Pauline: Barbara Downey

Dewsbury Arts Group

The Queen of Spain Fritillary, by H.E. Bates, adapted for the stage by David Foxton

Director: David Foxton?* (See Notes section below)
Cast:
Old Laura: Barbara Ryan
Mrs. Burnett: Margaret Goodall
Angela Burnett: Lynda McCraight
Laure Burnett: Vicki O’Keefe
Mabel: Edwin Ledgard
Frederick Fielding-Brown: Peter Ragan
Miss Carfax: Judith Wood

Saturday 13th June

Cheadle Hulme Players

After Magritte, by Tom Stoppard

*No cast/crew listed, see the Notes section below for further details

Sheffield University Staff Dramatic Society

Seven Women, by J.M. Barrie

Director: Frank Whitehead
Cast:
Captain Rattray RN: Bill Royston
Leonora: Helen McCallum
Mr. Tovey: Richard Carwardine
Mrs. Tovey: Linda Kirk
Maid: Jacqui Burnay

Awards

Presentation of Festival Awards by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield

Crew

For the SADATA Festival

Adjudicator: Geoffrey Annis

Notes

For the performance of The Queen of Spain Fritillary on Friday 12th June, the director is listed at Davi, which I have assumed is referring to David Foxton, and is a printing error

The programme on Saturday 13th June was supposed to open with the Greater Manchester Drama Federation in Jean-Paul Sartre’s ‘In Camera’, however a handwritten note in the programme records the replacement, with no information about cast or crew