The winners for the
"Over & Above" Summer Competition
are as follows:

Winner: Over The Top (Up) by David Hampshire

Runner Up: Persons of Value by Judy Forrest

2nd Runner Up: Spinsters by Jane Walker

and the finalists, in order of appearance:

Volcano by Sally Sheringham
The Blood Club by Liam O'Grady
Kumfijet by Bob Braithwaite
May Contain Nudity by Teresa Jennings
... and The Ecstasy by Wally Sewell

Gareth Pilkington is Theseus/Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Rose Theatre Bankside, 21 New Globe Walk, London SE1 9DT.

Dates: 12-31 July at 7.30pm

Box office: 020 7261 9565

Kate Glover's Judenfrei, read by AWL in May, is playing at the Guild Church of St Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street, London EC4 2HR, cast with the following AWL members Carole Carpenter, Phil Gerrard, Catherine Potter, Julian Bird and Kate Glover, directed by Tom Scott.

Dates: 27 July at 7.30pm

Alistair Findlay is appearing in J M Barrie's What Every Woman Knows at the Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED.

Dates: 26 July, 1, 2 August at 7.30pm

Tickets £13/£9 (conc)

Box Office 0844 847 1652

Claire Carroll appears in her one woman show Beef Encounter at The Garden Gallery, Sutherland House, Southwold. 

Dates: 30-31 July at 1.00pm

Tickets: £4 on the door.

Beef Encounter is a one woman show which tells the story of reluctant rambler and renowned food critic, Belinda Donovan, who gets separated from her group on a walking holiday.

Book online or Box Office 01491 578631

Brian Abbot's company Parrabbola (with Philip Parr as Artistic Director) have be awarded an EU grant for the second year running, to take a multi-lingual, multi-site production to the Gdansk International Shakespeare Festival in Poland. Brian is the dramaturg of Pericles, Prince of Tyre.

Dates: 31 July-8 August

Kenneth Michaels is making his second working trip to Germany this year when he directs The Picture of Dorian Gray for White Horse Theatre Company.  This will be in repertory with Maid Marian, and a play about vampires, for children learning English, called Neighbours with Long Teeth!

Mary Drake is understudying all of the four female roles in Sir Peter Hall’s production of Bedroom Farce which will tour the UK until mid December.

Click here for tour dates

Paul Antony-Barber is filming in Liverpool after landing a regular role of the mysterious yet loveable Headmaster, Mr Sweet, in the USA/UK new gothic teen drama House of Anubis. It's about vampires and spooks set in an old fashioned boarding school in England. He'll be in the first 61 episodes, with options for three and a half years.  There will be promotional tours to follow in LA.

Paul can also be seen in August playing a mad Colonel who enjoys shooting collaborators in the BBC's Land Girls.

Jennie Lathan can be seen as a grandmother dancing in the new Dizzee Rascal Music Video by clicking here.

Rosalind
Adler

Rosalind Adler's internet-dating play LOL will be performed at the Jermyn Street Theatre, 16b Jermyn Street, London SW1Y 6ST.

Dates: 3-4, 17-18 August at 8.00pm

Box Office:  020 7287 2875

Ingrid Evans is playing Caroline in Three's Company production of Reverie by Tom Crawshaw at the Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Dates: 4-30 August at 5.40pm

Jeryl Burgess will be playing Lady Horner in Foul Paper Theatre Company's production of The Mandrake at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the Zoo Southside Studio, 117 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9ER (Venue 82).

Dates: 6-31 August at 1.40pm

Ticket prices: £8/£6 (conc)

Book online

Gareth Pilkington will be playing Jack in Buried Alive by Philip Osment at the Rose Theatre Bankside, 21 New Globe Walk, London SE1 9DT, as part of the London Fringe Festival. 

Dates: 13-31 August at 7.30pm

Tickets: £10/£8 (conc)

Box office: 020 7261 9565

Then from 7-26 September, Gareth will be playing Sir Moth Interest in Ben Johnson's comedy The Magnetic Lady at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington.

Two horror films which Brendan Gregory filmed this year, Wound 
and Little Deaths will be screened at the upcoming Frightfest at the Empire, Leicester Square this August.

Dates: 26-30 August

Further details

Brian Abbot's company Parrabbola (with Philip Parr as Artistic Director) have been awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund grant to write and produce a full scale community play/musical for Rickmansworth, called Land of Liberty for production in March/April 2011.  It is about the rise of the Chartist Movement. 

A 20 minute taster version has already been performed at Watersmeet Theatre, Rickmansworth, and just recently as part of the St Albans Festival.  As part of the project Brian will also be giving a series of seminars on creative play/writing involving History.

Following Martin Baum's success with his first book, To be or Not To Be, Innit – a Yoof-Speak Guide to Shakespeare, becoming a best-seller in 2008, his second, Oi Mate, Gimme Some More! a Yoof-Speak Guide to the Complete Novels of Charles Dickens, Innit, looks certain to maintain his unique approach to literature by keeping it fun and accessible.

Click here for further information

Martin will be attending the Bournemouth Literary Festival on 23 October, hosting a special event Write by the Sea. On 26 October, he'll be on the panel discussing different writing genres and getting into print.

For more information about the festival

Lost Theatre's Five Minute Festival is open to plays of a duration of up to 5 minutes.

We live in an age when no-one has time.  Average viewers spend 3 and 7 minutes on an internet video.  Advertisers get whole stories into 30 seconds. Reduced Shakespeare squeezed the bard’s works into 70 minutes.  Hamlet thought brevity the soul of wit, the Japanese that haiku was the highest form of art.  Can you join the masters and create a piece of theatre – comical, tragical, dialogue-based, musical, physical to bewitch an audience and make five minutes memorable?  It’s the ultimate challenge, and if you dare try there’s a world of possibilities.  The Lost Theatre want you in their Five Minute Festival. 

Deadline: 2 August

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Masterclass aims to offer young people between 17-30, exceptional creative opportunities and experiences with leaders of the theatre industry. A year-round programme of talks, workshops, special projects and career advice is intended to give people insight into all aspects of theatre from writing and directing to acting and producing. Masterclass strives to provide all the events for free, so that people of all abilities, status and background can be inspired by and learn from masters of the craft.

Click here to see programmes of events

BritishTheatre.com aims are very simple, created by Marcus Markou
to connect people actively involved in the theatre with each other. If along the way, people want to promote stuff, exchange ideas and start discussions then that's fine too. The site allows you to create your own profile page and even customise it - like on MySpace.com. In fact, you can view this as a kind of MySpace.com for the UK theatre community.

You can also upload photographs, publish a blog, upload video (either directly from your computer or from YouTube.com/Google Video) and create your own groups within this group.

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