Encore. September Awards Evening

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1 Encore North Essex Theatre Guild September 2017 Awards Evening A very successful Awards Evening was held on Friday 8th September at The Princes Theatre, Clacton. 34 groups were represented by over 340 members. This did mean that we reached the maximum capacity for seating at tables at the theatre and we had to seat some of you in the balcony, but we hope that everyone had an enjoyable evening. The theme of Guys and Dolls was embraced by many, so thank you! Once again we would like to thank the staff of the Princes Theatre for their support and help in staging the event this year. We always welcome your feedback and if you have any ideas or suggestions as to how we could improve the evening, please let us know by ing janpooley@btinternet.com. The winners are listed below. Congratulations must go to all of them and indeed to all who were nominated. The Jan King Award (for unsung heroes) Liz Jones of Little Waltham Drama Group SHOWCASE FESTIVAL King Costume Award: Little Waltham Drama Group for Pirates of the Panto Jean Jones Award for Set Design/Construction/Dressing Brightlingsea Musical Theatre Group for Bad Girls-the Musical Technical Achievement: (JOINT AWARD) Brantham Amateur Theatrical Society for Little Shop of Horrors and Manifest Theatre Group for Scrooge-the Musical Adjudicators Award: (JOINT AWARD) The Essex Group for Puss in Boots & Les Miserables Jnr and Nathan Rigg & Ella D Arcy Jones in Betty Blue Eyes for Mad Hatter Productions Best Young Actor: (JOINT AWARD) Ben Collins for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for KYDS and Harry Tunningley for Spamalot / Return to the Forbidden Planet for Witham Amateur Operatic Society and Loserville for Witham Operatic Workshop

2 Best Young Actress: (JOINT AWARD) Faith Garner in Jack and the Beanstalk for Bentley Green Players and Phoebe Wiggett in Oliver! for Westcliff Youth Theatre & All Shook Up for Clacton Musical Theatre Society Best Supporting Actor: Jack Williams in Babes in the Wood for Wickham Bishops Drama Club Best Supporting Actress: Katie Barnett in Copacabana for Clacton Musical Theatre Society Best Dame: Bernie Smith Sleeping Beauty for Pantoloons Best Actor: (JOINT AWARD) Dom Casey in Treasure Island for Colne Engaine Dramatic Society and Will Mugford & Ben Adams in "On the Twentieth Century" for Platform Musicals & Plays. Best Actress: Constance Lawton in Spamalot for Witham Amateur Operatic Society and Sleeping Beauty for Pantoloons Collyer-Smith Marine Trophy for Best Musical: Witham Amateur Operatic Society for Spamalot directed by Nikki Mundell-Poole Eric Dyster Cup for Best Pantomime/Children s Play: Colne Engaine Dramatic Society for Treasure Island directed by Pat Saward & Jo Davidson SHOWCASE/FULL-LENGTH FESTIVALS: Timmens Award for Music: Platform Musicals & Plays for On the Twentieth Century & Bernstein on Broadway The Terry Sadler Memorial Trophy for Front of House: Bardfield Players for Steaming The Millennium Writer s Award for Best Original Script: Home Free by Joanne Smith for Tollesbury Amateur Players The Jimmy James Memorial Award for Direction: Gary Sullivan for Puss in Boots / Les Miserables Jnr for The Essex Group FULL-LENGTH PLAY FESTIVAL: Costume Award: The Village Players (Nayland) for The Deep Blue Sea

3 Set Design/Construction/Dressing: (JOINT AWARD) Colchester Theatre Group for Miss Julie and Maldon Drama Group for Prescription Murder Lyndon Trophy for Technical achievement: Latchingdon Arts and Drama Society for The Hound of the Baskervilles The Norman Harris Trophy Adjudicator s Award: (JOINT AWARD) The cast of For Services Rendered for Headgate Theatre Productions and Amanda Rowe in Glorious! for Manifest Theatre Group Best Young Actor: Liam O Connor in Nightmare for Phoenix Theatre Company Best Young Actress: Sophie Mercer in Bunkered for Brantham Amateur Theatrical Society Best Supporting Actor: Michael Howard in The Rivals for Kelvedon Players Best Supporting Actress: (JOINT AWARD) Megan Symkiss in Daisy Pulls it Off for Colchester Theatre Group and Liz Curley in A Tomb with a View for Writtle Cards The David Knight Shield for Best Actor: (JOINT AWARD) Paul Reed in Lend Me a Tenor for Dedham Players and Tim Glover in The Merchant of Venice for Wivenhoe Open Air Shakespeare Best Actress: (JOINT AWARD) Elly Kent-Dyson in Di and Viv and Rose for Headgate Theatre Productions and Suzanne Harknett in The Deep Blue Sea for Village Players Nayland The Cliff Hudson Award for Comedy (Production): (JOINT AWARD) Dedham Players for Lend Me a Tenor directed by Kelvin Hastings-Smith and Headgate Theatre Productions for The Play What I Wrote directed by Anthony Roberts The Doris Griffith Memorial Cup for Best (Dramatic) Production Wivenhoe Open Air Shakespeare for The Merchant of Venice directed by Clare Durance with Sheila Foster IMPORTANT REMINDER - Trophies Please remember that you are responsible for the safe keeping of any trophy that has been awarded to you/a member of your group, and therefore for its repair or replacement in the event of loss or damage.

4 Where trophies need to be engraved with the name of your group/winner, can you please ensure that this is done prior to return. Please note that the season for this year s awards is 2016/17. When there are joint winners of an award, the trophy should be held by each group for 6 months. At the end of February 2018, those groups who took the trophy should ensure that they contact the secretary of the other group (details can be found on the members contact list) to arrange the transfer. Trophies will need to be returned to the Guild in early August 2018 in preparation for next year s Awards Evening. It is important that we receive these back in good time so that we can clean them and check their condition. If any need to be replaced, we need time to do this, so please do return these promptly when asked. Adjudication System The administrator for the adjudication system is noted below, and all forms should be sent to: Graham Young Elm Tree Cottage Fields Farm Road Layer-de-la-Haye Colchester CO2 OJN ghy@hotmail.co.uk Telephone: A copy of each adjudication form is enclosed with this newsletter. Forms can be downloaded from the Guild website at or by contacting Graham Young details as above. When the adjudicator advises you of the performance they will be attending, can you please ensure that seats are reserved for them accordingly. Usually two adjudicators attend each performance (but they will advise you if this is not the case), so please ensure that there are two adjacent seats. Member Groups Mailing List The up-to-date mailing list will follow once all annual subscriptions have been received.

5 SUBSCRIPTIONS DUE 1st September 2017 Reminder - Annual Subscriptions Your annual subscription is now due if you have not already paid, please send to Graham Dyster at the address given below. If you include an S.A.E. he will send you an official receipt. Alternatively, you can ask for a simple acknowledgement to be ed to you or your Group s Treasurer see below. Please make your cheque for 20 payable to North Essex Theatre Guild or NETG for short. Graham s address is: Holly Cottage, 2 Goat Lodge Road, Great Totham, Maldon, Essex, CM9 8BT info@anagramtherapies.com; Tel: GROUP FEE ENCLOSED... CHEQUE NUMBER... FOR GUILD COMMUNICATIONS TO THIS GROUP, THE USUAL PERSON YOU SHOULD CONTACT IS: NAME... ADDRESS TELEPHONE NO... ADDRESS... Please indicate whether or not you require a receipt as appropriate: I am enclosing an SAE for an official receipt Please acknowledge payment by to the following address:. No receipt required

Encore. September Awards Evening

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