Drama group going for hat-trick at theatre festival
A playwright is hoping to make it a hat-trick of awards at a prestigious amateur-dramatics festival this weekend.
Stephen Moran of Halesowen-based Mayhem Theatre Group will be competing at the Worcestershire Theatre Festival which runs on Saturday and Sunday.
Mayhem will be joined by Wordsley Amateur Dramatic Society, New Kinver Players, Stourbridge Theatre Company and a drama group from Kingswinford School at the festival in Droitwich.
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Last year Stephen and Mayhem swept the board winning the best play, best original play, best actor and overall winner titles.
The year before, Stephen also won the best original play title.
This weekend, the company will be performing his latest play Future Past, about a man who visits a psychiatrist following a car crash, and finds that he can see into the future.
Stephen, who keeps an optician's shop in Halesowen, says the standard of competition is always very high at the event.
"There is always a bit of Tales of the Unexpected in my plays," he said.
Stephen said the event, which was expected to attract about 500 theatre fans, formed the Worcestershire heat of the England Theatre Festival.
He said a total of 11 one-act plays would be performed at Droitwich's Norbury Theatre over the two days.
"I've been writing short plays for many years now and they've done well at the festivals," he said.
"Last year my play Imagine, about a journalist interviewing a John Lennon tribute act, won the best original play and best play titles, and I also won best actor."
