One Act Play Festival

The One Act Festival is a open one act play festival where all the plays are performed at the same venue, usually in Spring.

Rules

Trophies and Winners

The origins of the Nanda One Act Festival are a bit obscure. The first one appears to have been held in 1957, but all that is recorded about it is that it lost money.

Around this time Nanda took over hosting the local first round of the British Drama League's One Act Festival. This was combined with the Nanda Festival, enabling winners to go forward to the next round of the national festival. It also meant that the Nanda Festival was no longer restricted to members and became an open festival.

Being an early round of this national festival however forced the Nanda Festival to be uncomfortably early, and finally, in 1979 the Nanda Festival moved from March to June in pursuit of a viable number of entries. Despite losing connection with the national festival the Nanda Festival has remained an Open Festival.

Nanda, however, has restored the link with the, now, All England Theatre Festival ,
so the the Nanda Festival is back in March.

One Act Festival

The Festival has been staged at