All tickets for the One Act Play Festival are price at £6:00 - a bargain for five excellent original one act plays in an International competition! The proess started way back in 2008 and we have now distilled the very best of writing talent for you to judge!
The performance starts at 7:30pm, and the Daneside Theatre Bar will be available prior to the performances & in the interval. Tickets now available from Congleton Information Centre. Please phone them on (01260) 271095
You the audience on the evening will be the final judges!
If you have any queries please contact david@congletonplayers.com or ring (07939) 035101

Please be aware that there is adult language that may possibly offend some people in one of the plays.

Following our best ever level of entries for the One Act Play Festival and Competition with entries in the hundreds, the five finalists have now been selected. We have received entries from The Shetland Islands down to the South coast and all points in-between, in addition to the USA, Israel, Finland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, South Africa and Mexico. Entries covered a wide range of subjects and the standard of scripts submitted was yet again of a very high standard indeed.
All entries were read "blind" by a group of actors and directors and after multiple readings the finalists were selected. It was only at this point that the authors of the individual scripts were identified and linked to the different plays. The five finalist plays will be performed on the evening of 18th July 2009 at the 300 seat Daneside Theatre in Congleton, Cheshire. The climax of the competition will be when the audience on the evening votes for the eventual winner after all the plays have been performed.

The five finalist plays are:

“Lonely Hearts” by Roland Moore, Surrey, England
"My Date With The Pope” by Ron Frankel, New York, USA
“Mission Impossible” by David Muncaster, Sandbach, Cheshire, England
“The Tribute” by Charles Evans, Blackheath, London, England
“Sponge Cake & Branston” by Mark Robberts, County Durham, England

Tickets will be available three weeks before the performance night on the 18th July from our ticket agent, Congleton Information Centre (01260) 271095 so make sure you put the date in your diary as tickets will sell very fast!
If you have any queries regarding the One Act Play Festival, please e-mail david@congletonplayers.com

The first play in our new season will be "Once a Catholic" by Mary O'Malley to be Directed by Pam Mien in October. This hilarious play is set in a Convent School in the 1950's and promises to be a sell out given its track record - a must-see play. Further details of this play and all the other plays in our new seasons programme are to follow soon so keep checking this website!

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