South West Drama Festival

I made the trip to Bunbury on the weekend (a week before the new highway opens :P) and had fun at the SOuthwest Drama Festival. Congratulations to Bunbury Rep for a well run festival. I'll post what results I can remember. My apologies for the omissions, as I didn't write anything down yesterday, and some of them may even be wrong. Feel free to add, and correct me if needs be. Best Play - Frog Soup, Mandurah Little Theatre Best Director - Jenny..?? Frog Soup Best Actor - Ray Egan, The Chateau, Garrick Best Actress - ????sorry Best Supporting Actor - Theo Messenger, Unattainable, Arena. (Is this the first time an actor who wasn't in the play has won an award? Best Supporting Actress - Anna Peluso - Caught On The Hop, Melville. Best Writer - The Chateau, Garrick.

Best Character Actor - Kerry Goode, Wishes For Sale, Garrick

Best Actress - ??? - Red Balloon Best Director - Jenny Ferguson (Frog Soup) Fantastic weekend. Great to finally put some faces to names also. I was blown away by the male talent over the weekend. Unbelievable. Loved how the adjudicator gave nominations for each catagory. It made the award presentations all that more exciting. - Sky

The Red Balloon - Michaela King - Kwinana Theatre Workshop Well done too all who was involved, was an awsome weekend. :)

Many thanks, Jeff. Regarding the awards, let’s see what I wrote at the time. I apologise in advance for any omissions, errors etc and welcome any corrections and/or information to fill some of the gaps. In order of the programme/presentation: Best Original Script Nominations: Tissues & Wine (Phoenix Theatre) The Last Waltz (Phoenix Theatre) The Chateau (Garrick Theatre) Frog Soup (Mandurah Little Theatre) Winner: The Chateau (Garrick Theatre) Best Character Performance Nominations: Kerry Goode – Wishes For Sale (Garrick Theatre) Help, please. Can anyone fill the gap here. Were there any other nominations? Winner: Kerry Goode – Wishes For Sale (Garrick Theatre) Best Supporting Male Actor Nominations: Matt Lawrence – Queer Street (Melville Theatre) Norm Heath – Queer Street (Melville Theatre) Theo (?Messenger – help, please) Winner: Theo ……………. Best Supporting Female Actor Nominations: Caroline (help, please) Monica (help, please) Anna Peluso – Caught On The Hop (Melville Theatre) Penny Searle – Queer Street (Melville Theatre) Winner – Anna Peluso – Caught On The Hop (Melville Theatre) Best Male Actor Nominations: Jim (help, please) Douglas Sutherland-Bruce – The Chateau (Garrick Theatre) Ray Egan – The Chateau (Garrick Theatre) Mat Young - The Last Waltz (Phoenix Theatre) Marcelle Weber - The Last Waltz (Phoenix Theatre) There was one other, help, please. Winner: Ray Egan – The Chateau (Garrick Theatre) Best Female Actor Nominations: Laila Gampfer – Caught On The Hop (Melville Theatre) Ann Barker – Candle On The Table (Stirling Players) Karin Staflund – Candle On The Table (Stirling Players) Michaela King – The Red Balloon (Kwinana Theatre Workshop) Winner: Michaela King – The Red Balloon (Kwinana Theatre Workshop) Best Director Nominations: Kirstie Fransis – Queer Street (Melville Theatre) Linda Redman – The Chateau (Garrick Theatre) Felicity May – Caught On The Hop (Melville Theatre) Jenny Ferguson – Frog Soup (Mandurah Little Theatre) Was there one more? Winner: Jenny Ferguson – Frog Soup (Mandurah Little Theatre) Best Play Nominations: Queer Street – Melville Theatre The Chateau – Garrick Theatre Last Waltz – Phoenix Theatre Caught On The Hop – Melville Theatre Frog Soup – Mandurah Little Theatre Winner: Frog Soup – Mandurah Little Theatre There were three certificates awarded at the end but I did not write down the details. Can any one help, please? Further, the Adjudicator indicated that there would be a couple more certificates but there had been insufficient time for him to organise same and that they would be sent to those concerned. Once again, sorry for not being able to notate it all and I apologise for any omissions, errors etc. Great drama festival. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the plays and performances. Keep up the good work, all.

From my notes: No other nominations for Character Actor Best Supporting Actor I wrote down Sean Byrne but can't find in the program Patrick ? Theo Messenger - Unattainable Best Supporting Actress Monica Neville - Sex, Lies & Mobile Phones (I think) Beth Snowdon - A Candle on the Table Best Male Actor Martin Lindsay - Caught on the Hop Best Director Jane Sherwood - The Last Waltz (I really noticed that one ;) Certificates of Merit Donneybrook - best set Phoenix - Johnny Grim - Writing Phoenix - The Last Waltz - Best Performance Apologies if I have got any of these wrong - had to write quickly

Many thanks, Jane. How could I have overlooked Beth Snowden, Martin Lindsay and the great, fabulous Jane Sherwood! My humble apologies to all. Have a great day. Cheers

Martin was a nominee. Lynda has all the winners

Hi Jeff Beth Snowden (Best Support Female), Martin Lindsay (Best Actor) and the great Jane Sherwood (Best Director) were all nominees. Well done, Jane, for notating it. Cheers.