The City of Plymouth Speech & Drama Festival
2024
We are very pleased to announce that the Speech and Drama Festival opens on Monday November 12th and runs for 6 days, closing at lunch time on Friday 17th November. As usual, it is being held at the Future Inn, PL6 5ZD. Directions to the Future Inn are available on this page.
Adjudicator
We are pleased to announce that our Speech and Drama adjudicator is:
Rebecca Thompson
On graduating from Bristol University with a degree in Drama and English, Rebecca worked for BBC Radio Four’s Drama Department. After further journalism and corporate work, Rebecca studied for her Licentiate Teacher’s Diploma and has been teaching Speech and Drama privately and in schools for over 25 years. Additionally a voice and presentation skills coach in the region, she teaches in private and state schools, colleges and businesses and is a facilitator for Speaking and Listening Courses in the South Gloucestershire region; in addition she facilitates communication training in schools across the country. Rebecca has been actively involved in theatre in the South West and is an Adjudicator for the Rose Bowl Awards for Amateur Drama and Music; she also continues to direct plays with young people. Rebecca is passionate about developing communication skills amongst people of all ages and abilities; she sees the Festival movement as an excellent way of achieving this goal.
Return of Cups and Trophies
Auditing and preparing returned cups ready for presentation is a mammoth task and requires a lot of time, effort and space.
The cups and trophies need to be returned by October 1st 2024, and are those which had been presented in the previous years.
Cups and trophies should be engraved with the name of the performer who had won the class and had been presented with the award. Similarly, the names of all performers in duet, trio and quad classes should be engraved on the award.
If you have any queries regarding the return of your cup or trophy, please use our contact form and select Cups and Tropies.
Supervision of Performers
Please remember that for the duration of the festival all teachers, parents, guardians and carers are responsible for the continuous care and supervision of their own children or pupils. If they are unable to attend personally, they must delegate their responsibilities to an identified adult and ensure that their children or pupils are aware of the identity and name of the person responsible for their care. This includes supervision throughout all Festival venues, performance and practice and changing areas that are be provided. The carer of a performer must be over 18 years of age.
For your information, please read Plymouth Festival’s Safer Festivals Statement which can be downloaded from the bottom of every page.
The Festival Performance
The Festival experience differs from the examination situation in that it offers participants the opportunity to perform on a public stage in front of an audience and receive a mark and feedback from a qualified adjudicator.
The adjudicator will therefore look for a complete performance, including attention to dress, entrances and exits, announcing and acknowledging both applause and, where appropriate, the accompanist.