The awards
These are the award categories that the participating groups compete for in the FEATS festival. The names of the trophies have changed over the years. Below, they are given in chronological order. To find out who won what in which year, please consult the FEATS database.
First place
1976 | The Phillips Cup (donated by Phillips Petroleum); replaced by |
2001 | The Kast Cup for Best Production (donated by Kast Telecom); replaced by |
2010 | The Founders’ Trophy (donated by the AATG); replaced by |
2024 | The John Keary Award for Best Production (donated by the AATG). |
Second place
1980 | The Luxembourg Cup (donated by the New World Theatre Club); replaced by |
1990 | The Mervyn Briscoe Award (in memory of Mervyn Briscoe, Chairman of the Rotterdam One Act Play Festival, May 1976); replaced by |
2008 | The ECC Centennial Cup. |
Third place
1983 | The RAMD Award (RAMD = Rheindahlen Association of Music and Drama; award donated by the Ariel Theatre Guild, RAF Headquarters Germany, Rheindahlen); replaced by |
1995 | The Wedgwood Trophy (presented by Wedgwood, Germany); replaced by |
2004 | The Taché Diamonds Award (presented by Taché Diamonds); replaced by |
2012 | The BATS Trophy |
Best actor and best actress
2002 | Blackie Awards (donated by the English Comedy Club in memory of E.A. Blackwell, founding member of FEATS and Chairman of the ECC in 1976). Prior to 2002 the best actor and best actress awards were donated by the host groups. At varying intervals, best supporting actor and best supporting actress awards were also donated by the host group until the steering committee finally decided that these should no longer be given. |
Best stage presentation
1980 | The Grand Duchy Trophy. Until 1990 this award was for “best set”. |
Stage management
1983 | The Marcel Huhn Memorial Award (Marcel Huhn was a founding member of FEATS, and stage manager for the BATS production in 1976); replaced by |
1996 | The Marcel Huhn/Bruno Boeye Memorial Award (Bruno Boeye was a lighting director from Belgium who was responsible for lighting many of the Antwerp and Brussels winning entries). The stage management trophy is unique in being awarded, not by the adjudicator, but by the FEATS stage manager and crew, on the basis of their assessment of the performing groups’ own stage teams. |
Best original script
1984 | The Verulam Award (donated by Rod West of The Earl of Verulam’s Men of The Hague, an early entrant to FEATS); replaced by |
1999 | The DAW-Verulam Award (supported by DAW, the Drama Association of Wales, which published many of the winning scripts); replaced by |
2023 | The William Valk Award for Best Original Script (donated by Tagora) |
Discretionary award
1980 | The Anthony Cornish Discretionary Award (presented by Anthony Cornish, member of GODA and a frequent adjudicator in the early days of FEATS); replaced by |
2008 | The Don Luscombe Discretionary Award |