Published:
7:30 PM April 27, 2021
Lily Peterkin and Peter Heppelthwaite of Limitless Academy receiving a trophy from the then-mayor Councillor Barbara Fitzsimon at the Welwyn Drama Festival in 2019.
- Credit: Supplied by Welwyn Drama Festival
This year s Welwyn Drama Festival will go on – with an online version being staged in May.
When the 86th Welwyn Drama Festival was cancelled last year following the COVID-related closure of the Barn Theatre in Welwyn Garden City, nobody imagined that the shutdown would still be in force in May 2021.
The cast of College Players The Welsh Job, which was performed at the 2019 Welwyn Drama Festival.
- Credit: Supplied by Welwyn Drama Festival.
She said: “It’s been a long lockdown for everyone, and everyone’s life has been affected.
The Company of Players online production of The Strange Case of Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde.
- Credit: The Company of Players
Josie Melton in The Company of Players online production of The Strange Case of Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde.
- Credit: The Company of Players
“A group of friends from Hertford is struggling with the disappearance of their friend, Henry Jekyll, and the appearance of a strange, unknown man named Edward Hyde, in their life.
“It’s very cold out there, in December, on the streets of Hertford.”