Last night LIDOS came away from the Festival Awards Evening with a batch of awards for the pantomime Jack in the Beanstalk, including the top awards for Best Pantomime and Best Stage Presentation. Cast from the panto. with all the awards The Best Panto award As well as the two prestigeous awards there was recognition for Matt Stirk with the Best Programme award. There were also individual awards for Sophie Massa, Best Principal Boy, and Bryan Craven, Best Pantomime Dame. Kazia collects Sohie's award Bryan collects his own award !! Congratulations to all the winners and nominees. Also congratulations to the LIDOS Chairman, Simon Field, on his award for Best Cameo performance in "An Imaginary Invalid" with STARS The Wharfedale Festival of Theatre exists to promote, celebrate and encourage good amateur theatre in the area, and is a friendly festival with a unique "community" feel. It is open to amateur dramatic and operatic societies and youth and schools groups and, though centred in Wharfedale as the title suggests, performances given in the Leeds, Harrogate, and Bradford areas are also eligible to enter. The five categories of the Festival are Drama (Adults), Musicals (Adults), Pantomimes (Adults), Drama (Youth & Schools) and Musicals (Youth & Schools). Each competition has its own awards for individual performances as well as awards for direction, stage presentation and music where applicable. We even have a special award for the most welcoming ambience front of house! The other important aims of the Festival are to get together and celebrate the different schools', societies' and groups' achievements at the annual Awards Evening (which the Press call "the local Oscars") and to encourage members of all our participating schools, societies and groups to attend each others' productions.
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