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| WGC Youth Festival in the Welwyn Hatfield Times 23rd Mar 2022 |
Two years ago I wrote Brook For Nothing; a one act play designed to be performed by a youth drama company at youth theatre festivals. I wrote it specifically for Limitless Academy of Performing Arts after their fantastic production of my play Unlucky For Some which won the runner-up prize at the Welwyn Garden City Youth Drama Festival in March 2020. Brook For Nothing was planned to be performed at a number of youth drama festivals in 2021 but due to the pandemic this never happened.
At the start of 2022 auditions and rehearsals begun for Brook For Nothing. As Limitless Academy of Performing Arts is local to where I live I went to all the rehearsals I could, as I did for Unlucky For Some. I feel this is an important aspect where you get to learn from the director and actors, and really understand the process of bringing a script to life. I love working with the team at Limitless as they are very talented and very dedicated and the script was adapted throughout the rehearsal process to make it as slick as possible.
It was a hard six week rehearsal process to get the production ready for three festival performances over seven days. This hard work paid off as we won awards at all the festivals we entered. We won the Welwyn Garden City Youth Drama Festival and we did very well to finish Second and Third at the Waltham Forest and the Totten festivals as we were against adult entries and professional groups. We also won a number of acting awards for Best Youth Actor and Best Supporting Actress. I also won a new writing award. For a full list of awards and winners see the Stage Plays page.
Cast & Crew
BROOK: William Muir
KRIS: Mollie Mincher
ALEX: Oliva Houghton
SCORPION: Roisin Oshea
FRAGINATOR: Kyle Goold
PALADIN: Jay Thomas
TANYA: Amber Lewis
TONI PONY: Kyron Lewis
Director: Pete Heppelthwait
Assistant Director: Victoria Okell
Technician/Stage Manager: Archie Paddick
Crew: Theo Brignall
