Scottish Community Drama Association

Scott Salver

Play on Words is one of many projects organized and managed by the Playwriting Committee. One of the other activities run by this committee is the annual Scott Salver competition, which is run in conjunction with the National One-act Plays Festival. Plays entered for this competition are judged on reading, with members of the Playwriting Committee reading and judging all the plays. The winner is traditionally announced at the Scottish Final of the One-act Festival.

Scott Salver 2007

The 2007 winner of the Scott Salver is 'Principal Girls' by Emma-Louise Akiens from Stranraer. The play was performed by Stranraer Drama Club in the Wigtown District Festival. Runner-up was 'Wreckers' by Graeme Macdonald from Kirkwall. It was performed by Palace Players in the Orkney District Festival. Placed third was 'Final Entrance' by Isabella C Rae from Cambuslang. It was performed by EKO Players in the Glasgow District Festival. Fourth was 'The Violin' by Tim Tricker, fifth 'Home' by Pam Mackenzie and equal sixth were 'Jolly Good Fun' by Mike Newbold and 'Checkmate' by Russell Adams, who was last year's winning author.
The above seven plays have been entered for the 2007 Geoffrey Whitworth competition.
A total of seventeen plays were entered for the Scott Salver competition in 2007, of which nine were plays for young casts.

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Geoffrey Whitworth Trophy 2007

The chief judge of this year's Geoffrey Whitworth playwriting competition has announced the results reached by himself and his two assistant judges. They are as follows:

Winning play: 'The People That Live In Boxes' by Les Clarke of Bournemouth

Highly Commended: 'Waiting' by Christopher Morgan of Ealing
Highly Commended: 'Wreckers' by Graham MacDonald of Kirkwall, Orkney

Commended: 'In the Rubble of Paradise' by James Chalmers of Little Neston
Commended: 'Fancying Sheep' by Vic Mills from the Drama Association of Wales
Commended: 'Beneath the Visiting Moon' by Nora Brown of Blairgowrie
Commended: 'The Violin' by Tim Tricker of Aberdeen
Commended: 'No Vinegar Please' by Salie Lamont from the Drama Association of Wales

There was a bumper entry of thirty scripts this year, which were judged by reading.

The trophy was presented to Les Clarke at the close of the Saturday evening's performances at the British Final Festival at the Solihull Arts Centre on 30 June.

Charles Barron, who has served as Principal Judge for seven years, and his two assistant judges, have decided that they will retire. The Scottish Community Drama Association, which administers this competition on behalf of the four UK organisations, is extremely grateful to Charles and his assistants for the continued professionalism of their assessments and there is no doubt that they will be sadly missed.

A brief summary of the above eight plays will shortly appear in the SCDA website's catalogue of prize-winning plays. To see the catalogue, click here.

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