Well, it’s getting on for two o’clock in the morning, and your webmaster has to confess that he has drunk a glass or two of wine. Nevertheless, here are the results of FEATS 2017, subject to correction in the cold light of day.

First place: Theater de WAANzin with The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Second place: Hamburg Players with A Slight Accident by James Saunders
Third place: Entity Theatre with Numbers by Mar Gómez Glez
Best actor: Jason Couch of Hamburg Players in A Slight Accident by James Saunders
Best actress: Meryl Davenport of In Players International in Bombshells by Joanna Murray-Smith
Best stage presentation: Theater de WAANzin with The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Stage management award: English Comedy Club with A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
Original script: Men Are Beasts by Bruno Sousa (ESOC Theatre Group)
Adjudicator’s discretionary award: to Bombshells, for the caffeine moment, a combination of effects and acting.

E and O excepted!

Over the Easter period the Manx  Amateur Drama Federation held its festival of full-length plays.

Among the entries was Lift Not the Painted Veil, by Julie Lerpiniere and Nigel Harvey, and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (adaptation by Svenja Baumann), combined into a single production and performed by the University Players, Hamburg. The initiative came from Nigel Harvey, formerly of Stockholm Players, who directed the piece.

FEATS is pleased to report that the performance was a resounding success, winning no fewer than seven awards: Best Production, Best Director, Best Ensemble, Stage Management, Costume & Make-up, Best Dramatic Moment, Audience Appreciation. Many congratulations to Nigel and the University Players!