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Usually an annual event held each summer
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Our Mini Festival is the name we give to the showcase of new directors given the opportunity to show off their directorial skills before taking on a full length production

The Lane End Players have a long list of member who are able to direct any of our four major productions each year but before they are given the opportunity to do so, they are first asked to produce a short one act play which we at the Lane End Players refer to as a Mini Festival. The new director is asked to showcase their directorial skills by using experienced actors in their chosen one act play. The play is then performed on one night only in front of an audience of members and invited guests. We also invite someone from the theatre industry to come along as an adjudicator who then gives their feedback at the end of the evening. This is a great way for new directors to gain the experience they need and over the years we have had some very good one act plays chosen...

2016
Director - Jake Everitt
"Demonology" by Don Nigro

2016
Director - Lannie Staff
"Garden Pests" by Jean McConnell

2015
Directors - Alison Hartnett and Lisa Harnett
"Caught on the Hop"

2015
Director - Ritchard Tysoe
"Gosforth's Fete" by Alan Ayckbourn

2013
Director - Martin Hailey
"Joining the Club" and "Peas" by David Tristram

2011
Director - Tom Everitt
"A Little Box of Oblivion" by Stephen Bean

2010
Director - Ceri Nicolson
"Blue Remembered Hills" by Dennis Potter

2009
Director - Sophie Marshall
"Don't Blame it on the Boots" by Nick Warburton

2008
Director - Alan Rimmer
"The Intruders" by Peter Horsler

2006
Director - James Wood
"It's What He Would Have Wanted" by unknown

2004
Director - Sally Sugrue
"When the Bough Breaks" by Kathy Mead

2001
Director - Phillipa Lee
"The Bear" by Anton Chekhov

1999
Director - Bob Connor
"Us and Them" by David Campton

1998
Director - Catherine Everitt
"Bottles with Baskets On" by Mike Tibbetts

1992
Director - Dave Bowden
"A Kind of Alaska" by Harold Pinter

1992
Director - Libby Beck
"A Separate Piece" by Tom Stoppard

1990
Director - Tish Marshall
"Still Life" by Noel Coward

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