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Click the buttons on the left for details and a synopsis of each play. Some of the plays can be ordered from Amazon.co.uk "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 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 (Adam Farrell), Best Young Actress (Jo Cox), 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) "...our production won four Awards at the 2013 Saltburn Drama Festival. The awards were for Best Production, the Audience Award ('The Edge' received more votes than all the other eight entries put together), the Best Youth Production and my two young actors (Natasha Graham and Noah Harrison) shared the Award for Best Youth Actor. (Saltburn '53 Drama Group - 'The Edge' 2013) P E R F O R M A N C E D I A R Y 2 0 1 2 Old Buckenham Players - Village Hall, Old Buckenham, Norfolk Courtenay Players - The Charter Hall, Okehampton, Devon CCHS Jet Theatrix Drama Club - Palace Theater, Cumberland County High School, Crossville, Tennessee Fintry Amateur Dramatic Society Youth - SCDA Stirling District Festival, Menzies Hall, Fintry; SCDA Eastern Division Youth Final, Bowhouse Community Centre, Grangemouth; Menzies Hall, Fintry; SCDA Scottish Youth Final, Ryan Theatre, Stranraer Providence Christian School - Monarch, Alberta, Canada Glenrothes Theatre Company - Rothes Halls, Glenrothes, Fife Caversmill Theatre Company - AETF Stoke-on-Trent One Act Festival, Mitchell Memorial Arts Centre, Stoke-on-Trent Waddington Dramatic Society - Village Hall, Waddington, Lincoln Portsoy Players - Town Hall, Portsoy, Aberdeenshire Holland Tennyson Players - Community Hall, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire Burton and South Derbyshire College - Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire Oilfields Fine Arts Department - Oilfields High School, Black Diamond, Alberta, Canada Faust International Youth Theatre - Macaulay Studio, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wan Chai, Hong Kong New Zealand Peninver Junior Players - SCDA Argyll Kintyre District Festival, Campbeltown Grammar School, Campbeltown, Argyll; SCDA Western Division Youth Final, Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock Valley Players - Saltburn Bandstand & Saltburn School, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire P E R F O R M A N C E D I A R Y 2 0 1 3 Wiscasset Middle School Drama Club - Wiscasset, Maine, USA (28 & 29 March) Saltburn '53 Drama Club (Youth) - AETF Saltburn Drama Festival, Saltburn Community Theatre, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire (22 March) Saltburn '53 Drama Club - Saltburn Community Theatre, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire (24 April) Saltburn '53 Drama Club (Youth) - AETF North East of England Divisional Quarter Finals, Frazer Theatre, Knaresborough, Yorkshire (27 April) Kegworth Players Youth Arts - NANDA Youth Festival, Chilwell Arts Theatre, Chilwell School, Beeston, Nottingham (11 May) Kegworth Players Youth Arts - Village Hall, Kegworth, Derbyshire (15 & 18 May) Elgin Amateur Dramatic Society (Youth) - Moray Arts Club Festival, Elgin Town Hall, Elgin, Morayshire (18 March) Glenrothes Theatre Company - Rothes Halls, Glenrothes, Fife (16/17 May) Northern Lights Academy - Rigolet, Labrador, Canada (March) McGavin Drama Club - SCDA Ayrshire District Festival, Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock (21 Feb) Glenrothes Theatre Company - Rothes Halls, Glenrothes, Fife (11-13 Dec) Greenock Players - SCDA Inverclyde District Festival, Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock (22 Feb) updated June 2013 |
Plays by Ron Nicol: 43 tried, tested and published One Act Dramas & Comedies, One Act Plays for Young People, Full Length Plays and Pantomimes. Most of the one act plays are suitable for drama festivals, five have won writing prizes, and productions at English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, American and Canadian festivals have won more than eighty awards between them. There have been over 250 productions of Ron's plays and pantomimes in the UK, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Holland, Germany, Luxembourg and Minorca. Productions for 2012 and 2013 are listed in the PERFORMANCE DIARY below.
