Queenswood School's A Christmas Carol (abridged) by Charles Dickens. - Credit: Queenswood School. Supplied by WGC YDF More than 200 talented youngsters from nearly 40 entries took part in this year's virtual Welwyn Garden City Youth Drama Festival over six nights online. As the curtain fell on the final night of the 76th WGC Youth Drama Festival on March 7, 2020, nobody could have guessed that, just days later, it would also have curtailed all activities on the Barn Theatre stage for over a year. The subsequent weeks and months came and went, with ever changing edicts and advice from the government about what was and what was not permissible, and just when life might be able to return to some semblance of normality.