Plays by Ron Nicol: 35 tried, tested and published plays and pantomimes - 12 One Act Dramas & Comedies, 9 One Act Plays for Young Performers, 4 Full Length Plays and 10 Pantomimes. Most of the one act plays are suitable for festivals, five have won writing prizes, and various productions have collected a total of forty festival awards between them. For details and a brief synopsis of each play, please click the category buttons on the left.
(photograph by Anne Massie)

Ron Nicol - playwright:

"Ron Nicol is not only one of our most prolific playwrights, but a highly respected one, who is a fine wordsmith." (Amateur Stage - May 2007)

"We performed your wonderful play and managed to win the Junior Section of the Highland Division. It was really good to find something in which we could cast the whole of our P6/7 and which allowed our strong players to perform. The humour, balance and pace really allowed us to show what they could do. Thanks." (Auchtertyre Primary School - 'The Spiriting of Burd Ellen' 2005)

"We are thrilled to say that The Young Oxted Players swept the board at last night's Southern Counties Drama Festival and won Best Young Actor, Best Young Actress, Best Stage Presentation, Best Junior Entry and Runner Up for the whole Festival! Five awards for one play appears to be an all time record at the festival. Our thanks to you for such a wonderful piece of theatre that had the audience totally gripped." (Young Oxted Players -'The Edge' 2008)

"The audience and the adjudicator loved the play and the reception we got from the audience was fantastic ... I would say the best audience reaction out of the whole festival. We are chuffed to bits. I hope you have a great success with the play. We've certainly had!" (Peninver Players - 'Pig Tale' 2010)

Ron Nicol - drama adjudicator:

"We learned a lot from the adjudicator, Ron Nicol, who was approachable, knowledgeable and obviously very used to dealing with young people."    (Splinters Youth Theatre at the Aberdeen District Festival 2002)

"What also made the festival a pleasure was listening to the public adjudications of Mr Nicol. He was fair, even-handed and any criticisms were kindly delivered and balanced with constructive and positive advice to the groups and individuals concerned." (The Shetland Times March 2005)

"Ron Nicol - highly professional adjudicator"  (The Arran Voice March 2010)

                                        Production Diary - 2010

                                      'Beware The Jabberwock'

Playhouse Children's Theater Company, Belfast, Maine, USA (16-25 April)

Wooster School, Wean Performing Arts Center, Danbury, Connecticut, USA (21 & 22 May)
                                   
                                         'A Bird In The Bush'

Latimer Players Drama Society - Memorial Hall, Thurcaston, Leicester (22-24 April)
                                              
                                              'The Edge'

Greenock Players - SCDA Inverclyde District Festival, Arts Guild Theatre, Greenock, Renfrewshire (18 - 20 February)

Blairgowrie Junior Players - SCDA Perthshire District Festival, Birnam Institute, Perthshire (25-27 February); SCDA Northern Division Youth Final, Webster Theatre, Arbroath, Angus (13 March); Town Hall, Blairgowrie, Perthshire (25 March)

Aberdour Youth Theatre - SCDA Fife District Youth Final, Buckhaven Theatre, Fife (6 March); Primary School, Aberdour, Fife (24 April)

Evolve Theatre - Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Venue 260), theSpace on the Mile @ Jury's Inn, Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh (6-14 August) click to find out more

                                            'Going Home'                                  

Stowaways - Stow College, Glasgow (30-31 March)

                                  'Murder At the Cathedral'

Kirk Ella Dramatic Society - AETF Hull and East Riding District Festival, Village Hall, North Ferriby (25 March); Village Hall, Anlaby, Hull (2 July)

                                                'Pig Tale'

Peninver Junior Players - SCDA Argyll Kintyre District Festival, Campbeltown Grammar School, Campbeltown, Argyll (18 & 19 February); SCDA Western Division Youth Final, Lochside Theatre, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire (20 March); Village Hall, Peninver, Kintyre (27 March)

Hope Christian School of Albuquerque - Eastern New Mexico University Theater Festival, Portales, New Mexico (February)

Glenrothes Theatre Company - Rothes Halls, Kingdom Centre, Glenrothes, Fife (13 & 14 May)

Young Portonian Theatre Company - Bowhouse Community Centre, Grangemouth, Stirlingshire (15 & 16 May)

Hyde Little Theatre Youth Group - Hale One Act Play Festival, Club Theatre, Altrincham, Cheshire (16 June); Partington Theatre One Act Play Festival, Partington Players Theatre, Glossop, Derbyshire (8 July)

                                          'The Snow Queen'

LyneUp - Graham Institute, West Linton, Peebles-shire (3-6 March)

Katherine Lady Berkeley's School, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire

Barn Theatre, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire (18 Dec 2010-2 Jan 2011)

                                  'The Spiriting of Burd Ellen'

Thistle Theatre Company, Arts Guild Theatre, Greenock (19 & 20 Nov)

updated July 2010

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