19/08/2022, 16:01 Colwyn Abbey Players - The Bald Prima Donna

The Bald Prima Donna

by Eugene Ionesco
Translated and adapted
by Donald Watson

Directed by Geoff Edkins

Colwyn Abbey Players entered this production in the Conwy Festival of One Act Plays presented by the
Drama Association of Wales (DAW) and performed the play at Church House, Glan Conwy on 31 March 2017.
We won the award for Best Production and Rob Edwards won the award for Best Individual Performance.

We were invited to the DAW Wales Final Festival of One Act Plays 2017 in Newtown and performed on 2 June 2017.
We were delighted that Sharon Huxley and Naomi Rose O'Neill were nominated for the Best Individual Performance
with Naomi winning a bursary to the DAW Summer School.

We also performed the play at the Leverhulme Drama Festival at the Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight as Conwy Players
(because The Legacy was already entered as Colwyn Abbey Players) on 23 April 2017 and were delighted to win the award
for
Best Play with nominations for Sharon Huxley and Naomi Rose O'Neill for Best Actress, Lisa Wingate for Best Supporting
Actress
and the whole cast for Best Comedy Performance.

The cast and director of The Bald Prima Donna

Ben Huxley receives the award for Best Individual Landon Sweeney with the
Ben Huxley and Sharon Huxley receive the award
Performance at Conwy on behalf of Robert Cup for Best Production at
for Best Play at Conwy from David Price, the
Edwards from David Price and Terri McCarthy Leverhulme alongside Ellie
Adjudicator and Terri McCarthy, Chair of the
Montanaro with the award
Drama Association of Wales
for Best Presentation

This is a hilariously maniacal assault on the banality of English Suburbia.

The Smiths are a traditional, English couple from London who have invited another couple, the Martins, over for a visit.

Cast
Mr Smith Robert Edwards
Mrs Smith Sharon Huxley
Mary, the maid Lisa Wingate
Mr Martin Ben Huxley
Mrs Martin Naomi Rose O'Neill
The Captain of the Landon Sweeney

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Production Team
Director Geoff Edkins
Sound Roma Beaumont
Lighting Ian Forbes

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