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Royston CADS scooped three awards for their virtual play at Welwyn Drama Festival
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A Royston-based drama group is celebrating after winning three of 12 coveted rubber duck awards at the Welwyn Drama Festival.
Corvus Amateur Drama Society (CADS) entered the competition with their one-act play Seven Movies , which was written specifically for the group by local author Roy Maddox.
Seven Movies tells the story of a group of neighbours who have formed a film club, where each month they watch the same film and get together online to discuss it.
However, over the course of the play they learn more about each other than they were perhaps expecting - and more than some of them may be comfortable with.
Royston s amateur drama society CADS is taking their online play to the Welwyn Festival
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Royston-based Corvus Amateur Drama Society (CADS) is hoping its latest production will impress the judges at the Welwyn Festival next week.
The festival this year is a bit different from normal due to lockdown restrictions, as it will be entirely online with groups sending in filmed versions of their work.
CADS secretary Michael Young said: We’ve really been missing the chance to perform during the pandemic and this seemed the ideal opportunity for us to do some proper acting. Local author Roy Maddox has written a couple of pantomimes for us in the past, and also adapted the one-act play Strangers on a Film, which we had hoped to enter into several festivals last year before these were cancelled.
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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.
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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.
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