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Shiells Trophy
Awarded to the team judged to have the Best Stage Presentation in the Angus District SCDA annual one act play festival
The Last of The Last Mohicans
| Year | 2008 | Venue(s) | Aberdeen Arts Centre|Dibble Tree Theatre|Eden Court Theatre, Inverness|Montrose Town Hall | Style | One Act Plays | Director(s) | Gibson, Betty|Gibson, Dick | Actors | Doherty, George|Ruddell, Sam|Wilson, Grant | Actresses | Brymer, Kim|Doran, Carolyn | Awards | Alex Drummond Trophy|Grampian Television Trophy|Ian McKay Trophy|Kennedy Thompson Quaich|Shiells Trophy | Playwright(s) | Leonard, Hugh |
Dominick, having packed his wife off on retreat to an obscure saint's shrine, is poised to enjoy an adulterous affair with sexy Grace. Grace arrives, followed by Dominick's wife, followed by Grace's husband - a formidable Aer Lingus pilot. Eventually the evening is resolved amicably although not quite how Dominick intended!
We'll Be Home Tomorrow
The play is a wryly observed comic drama on family life. School breaks up and the annual summer holiday begins. 'Where to go?' presents the first problem, followed by the interminable car journey, arrival, a sortie to the beach and a minefield of disasters which the family encounter along the way.
Basically it's a family's 'typically British' annual summer holiday, set roughly in the early 70s when every family went off on a seaside holiday (every year!) The play progresses through various short scenes depicting the car journey, the roadside picnic, getting there (eventually), the hotel, the beach, the talent contest, the holiday romance... the list goes on.
Everyone will be able to identify with something in the play.
Lovers, Losers
| Year | 2005|2006 | Venue(s) | Dibble Tree Theatre|Orkney Arts Theatre|Pitlochry Festival Theatre|Webster Theatre Arbroath | Style | One Act Plays | Director(s) | Gibson, Dick|Wilson, Grant | Actors | Ruddell, Sam | Actresses | Gibson, Betty|Graham, Isabel|Smart, Marjorie | Awards | Alex Drummond Trophy|Ian McKay Trophy|Shiells Trophy | Playwright(s) | Friel, Brian |
This is the second of two short, complementary plays, Winners and Losers.
In the first play, the lovers are a young couple preparing for their final school exams and their imminent wedding. The girl is pregnant. Although they promise each other happiness, their deaths by drowning save them from a more likely destiny.
In the second play [this one], the lovers are older, but their passion, at first, is no less real. It is their marriage that brings its share of compromises and unhappiness.
