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Our annual full length play festival runs from February until November every year. An adjudicator travels to the society's venue to view and adjudicate a performance during the production's normal season. The competition culminates in the Antoinettes Awards, held this year on Sunday 7th December.
The entry form can be downloaded below.
Adjudicator: Ruth Sarratt
Festival Manager: David Cox
Contact: festivals@wdtf.org.nz
Cost:
$140 per entry, members
$190 per entry, non-members
Entry Form
The 24-Hour Play Challenge requires teams of between four and six people to create and rehearse a theatrical piece inside 24 hours and then perform it. Any style, any genre but it must be between four and ten minutes long and an original creation. There will be compulsory elements revealed at the start of the 24 hour period.
For further information contact: festivals@wdtf.org.nz
Check out the 2024 Challenge Results
Rules and an entry form can be downloaded below.
Cost:
$30 per team
$10 per non-participating audience member
Entry Form and Rules
2025 Adjudicator
Ruth Sarratt
In common with many of us. I was “into” my school drama productions, then jobs and family took over my time. I returned to theatre when my children were older and was thoroughly hooked. Then followed many years involved in local community theatre groups – acting, stage crewing, directing, set building and designing, making props, making the tea – you have to do it all in community theatre. More recently, accreditation as an Associate of New Zealand Drama Adjudicators (ANZDA) seemed a logical way of passing on some of my experience and sharing the knowledge.
I have come to believe that live theatre is a very special way of experiencing being human, and that it should be available to us all. I also firmly believe that we can always learn something new and improve our theatrical endeavours; a bit of timely advice or a thought-provoking question from an objective observer can do wonders to elevate a performance.
I have a particular interest in basic stagecraft (the elementary stuff that is so easy to get slightly wrong and thereby annoy your audience) and encouraging actors to use their whole body to support the script. It still awes me when I see a script really brought to life by a team effort – the “magic that is live theatre” never fades