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Welwyn Drama Festival Comedy, drama, mystery and intrigue. A week-long competitive festival of one act plays, professionally adjudicated. Come all week, or just one night!

To quote our awesome adjudicator, Tristan Marshall, here is the full list of WAWs - Winners at Welwyn!The Barn Theatre C...
24/05/2026

To quote our awesome adjudicator, Tristan Marshall, here is the full list of WAWs - Winners at Welwyn!

The Barn Theatre Club: 'Benching' by Matt Adie🏆🏆🥇
The Welwyn Cup for FIRST place; Derrick Baldock Cup for Best Unpublished Play.
Brightlight Theatre: 'The Aviary' by Jamie Lakritz 🏆🏆🏆🥈🏅
Roy Brewer Cup for SECOND place; Charles Pilgrem Trophy for Stage Presentation; Behrens Steinfeld Trophy to Judy Price for the Director showing the Most Complete & Imaginative Approach; Winifred Butler Award for Best Actress to Megan Kaliniak.
The Barn Theatre Club: 'Cabin Pressure: Gdansk' by John Finnemore 🏆🏆🏆🥉
Margaret Osborn Trophy for THIRD place; Louis Davis Trophy, the Adjudicator's Award for a Special Contribution to the Festival; FJ Osborn Audience Appreciation Award voted for by Season Ticket Holders as the play they enjoyed the most.
Runnymede Drama Group: 'Rock Paper Scissors' by Caroline Ross Tajasque 🏅Welwyn Award for Best Actor to Mike Ainsworth as Martin Gatzemeier.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the success of the 91st Welwyn Drama Festival including all the talented teams, the enthusiastic supporters, our discerning audience, the wonderful adjudicator, the fantastic festival crew and our friendly Front of House volunteers. Without you all there would be no festival. We hope to see you again next year! 🎭🎉😃👏👏🙌🫶

Winners of the 91st Welwyn Drama Festival are The Barn Theatre Club with Benching by Matt Adie. Second place is Brightli...
23/05/2026

Winners of the 91st Welwyn Drama Festival are The Barn Theatre Club with Benching by Matt Adie. Second place is Brightlight Theatre with The Aviary and third is Barn Theatre Club with Cabin Pressure: Gdansk. Full results will be posted on Sunday!

What a wonderful week we have had so far at the Welwyn Drama Festival. Well done to last night's teams, Woodhouse Player...
23/05/2026

What a wonderful week we have had so far at the Welwyn Drama Festival. Well done to last night's teams, Woodhouse Players and Players' Theatre (Wales). Two more high quality plays - we really are making it difficult for our stellar adjudicator, Tristan Marshall.

Tonight, before the Awards Ceremony, we have two more plays. IMPACT, a bold youth ensemble, present 'A Murder of Crows' by Mike Kenny, which is a mischievous and macabre twist on Hansel and Gretel. Finally, the Ó Draighneáin Theatre Company will perform 'What Happens When You Are Most Expecting It?' by James Thornton.

Do join us for the last two plays before celebrating with the Award Winners. Remember we start at 7pm!

Thank you to tonight's casts and crews from Theatre in the Square and The Barn Theatre Club - we really appreciate all t...
21/05/2026

Thank you to tonight's casts and crews from Theatre in the Square and The Barn Theatre Club - we really appreciate all the hard work you have put in to entertain us and bring your theatre to the festival! 🎭💃🕺👨‍✈️✈🧀🤣

Two more plays are coming up on Friday evening. The Players' Theatre (Wales) bring us 'A Kind of Vesuvius' by Gillian Plowman. Despite exploring the effect of unemployment on three men, all is not depression and negativity as you will see...

This is followed by the second offering from Woodhouse Players, 'Vintage' by Lucy Kaufman, in which David and Jenny are seeking relationship counselling over their obsession with the 1940s.

Another excellent evening's entertainment tonight with thought-provoking and well-delivered pieces. Our GODA Adjudicator...
20/05/2026

Another excellent evening's entertainment tonight with thought-provoking and well-delivered pieces. Our GODA Adjudicator is really enjoying his week, and has loved the variety of unpublished plays on offer.
Two more plays tomorrow. Theatre in the Square bring us an original two-hander 'London Milonga' by Mary Brown and the second offering from The Barn Theatre Club is radio comedy 'Cabin Pressure: Gdansk' by John Finnemore.

Just an hour to go until curtain up on the third night of the festival. Hertford's The Company of Players are first on w...
20/05/2026

Just an hour to go until curtain up on the third night of the festival. Hertford's The Company of Players are first on with a delightful two-hander, Village Wooing', bringing witty dialogue and subtle humour from the pen of George Bernard Shaw. Our second play, 'Rock Paper Scissors' is another contender for the Derrick Baldock Cup for the Best Unpublished Play Award. Written by Caroline Ross Tajasque for Runnymede Drama Group, it tells the story of Peter, travelling to Berlin to uncover some family truths. Hope to see you there! 🎭🥰

It's three play Tuesday! Umbra Vox bring us James Griggs' second play of the week, 'Half Past Twelve'. Set in a care hom...
19/05/2026

It's three play Tuesday! Umbra Vox bring us James Griggs' second play of the week, 'Half Past Twelve'. Set in a care home, it strives to present a compassionate portrait of dementia and the complexities of family life. Woodhouse Players portray the 'Famous Last Words' of hapless gang leader Brent and The Barn Theatre Club explore generational views on relationships in 'Benching' by Matt Adie. Do join us!
https://www.barntheatre.co.uk/productions_events/2025-2026/welwyn-drama-festival/

It's opening night! Join us for another chance to see the WGC YDF Senior winners Marlborough Science Academy with 'Mephi...
18/05/2026

It's opening night! Join us for another chance to see the WGC YDF Senior winners Marlborough Science Academy with 'Mephisto' and Brightlight Theatre with 'The Aviary'. 'Mephisto' confronts evil through dark humour and temptation to explore what happens after the curtain falls on Doctor Faustus. 'The Aviary' is a choral verse-play about performance, paralysis and the trap that sings us to sleep. We will also hear the wonderful adjudication of Dr Tristan Marshall for the first time this week. Can't wait!

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