Year
Nat
Winners
Participants
Venue
Location
Adjudicator
.
.
.
England
Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
2012
SCO Kirkton Players
Total Arts Community Theatre (The Tempest by William Shakespeare )
The Clarence Players (The Droitwich Discovery by TBC)
Kirkton Players (In the Blinking of an Eye by Jeremy Hylton-Davies )
Blackwood Little Theatre (Biscuits by TBC)
Torch Theatre
Milford Haven , Wales
Ian Sarginson GoDA
2011
SCO Tryst Theatre ‘C’
Old Town Theatre Company (The Recidivists by TBC)
The Newpoint Players (Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down by TBC)
Tryst Theatre ‘C’ (Art (Act I) by TBC)
New ‘Tabs’ Players (A Kind of Vesuvius by TBC)
Wyvern Theatre
Swindon , England
Mike Tilbury GoDA
2010
NIR Lurig Drama Group Cushendall
Oasis Youth Theatre (One Million To Stop The Traffik by Mark Wheeller )
Lurig Drama Group Cushendall (Melody by Deirdre Kinahan )
Thistle Theatre Company (The Hitch-Hiker by Lucille Fletcher )
The Unknown Theatre Company (Cotton Girls by Scott Tobin )
The Village Theatre
Pitlochry , Scotland
Dr Russell Boyce BA DSD FRSAMD FRSE
2009[2]
SCO Kirkton Players
Total Arts Community Theatre (Moll Flanders by J Machen )
The Clarence Players (A Little Something For The Ducks by Jean Lennox Toddle )
Kirkton Players (Two by Jim Cartwright )
New "Tabs" Theatre (But Yesterday by Jimmy Chinn )
Ardhowen Theatre
Enniskillen , Northern Ireland
Walker Ewart GoDA
2008
SCO Stewarton Drama Group
St Paul's Drama Group (Happy Jack by John Godber )
The Holywood Players (The Bay at Nice by David Hare )
Stewarton Drama Group (One Good Beating by Linda McLean )
Blackwood Little Theatre (Last Tango in Blackwood by David Tristram )
Taliesin Arts Centre , Swansea University
Swansea , Wales
Chris Jaeger GoDA
2007
ENG Total Arts Community Theatre
Total Arts Community Theatre (Find Me by Olwen Wymark )
Theatre 3, Newtownabbey (The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter )
Wick Players (The Pushcart Peddlers by Murray Schisgal )
The Players Theatre (Gelligaer) (The Bridge by Gabe Torrens )
Solihull Arts Complex , Solihull
Birmingham , England
Scott Marshall GODA
2006
NIR Holywood Players
St. Ursula Players (Me and My Friend (Act 1) by Gillian Plowman )
Holywood Players (The Invisible Man by Jennifer Johnston )
Kirkintilloch Players (Shakers Re-Stirred by John Godber & Jane Thornton )
Phoenix Theatre Company (Mediocrity by Anton Robert Krueger )
Perth Theatre , Perth
Perth, Scotland
Brian Marjoribanks
2005
ENG Another Theatre Company
Another Theatre Company (After Liverpool by James Saunders )
( )
Kirkton Players (Plaza Suite [Act III] by Neil Simon )
Tenby Players (Interior Designs )
Riverside Theatre , Coleraine
Coleraine , Northern Ireland
Michael O'Hara
2004
ENG The Young Theatre (at Beaconsfield)
The Young Theatre (at Beaconsfield) (Ball Boys by David Edgar )
Theatre 3, Newtownabbey (Elegy for a Lady by Arthur Miller )
Tryst Theatre (Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene )
New Tabernacle Players (Asylum by Alex Baum)
Aberystwyth Arts Centre ,
Aberystwyth , Wales
Chris Yeager
2003
SCO Kirkton Players
St. Austell Players (On the Road Again by Lawrence Allan )
Theatre 3, Newtownabbey (The Rats )
Kirkton Players (The Steamie abridged version by Tony Roper )
Players Anonymous (The Bespoke Overcoat )
Gaiety Theatre ,
Douglas, Isle of Man
2002
SCO Kirkton Players
Runnymede Drama Group (Bed by Jim Cartwright )
( )
Kirkton Players ('Bouncers' abridged version by John Godber )
New Tabernacle Players (The Train )
Eden Court Theatre
Inverness
Richard Wilson
2001
SCO Wick Players
Riverside Players (The Art of Remembering by Adina L Ruskin)
Bangor Drama Club (Say Something Happened by Alan Bennett )
Wick Players (A Bench at the Edge by Luigi Jannuzi )
Car Boot Theatre Company (Extraordinary Revelations of Orca )
,
Belfast
Billy Burns MBE, BA (GODA)
2000
ENG Runnymede Drama Group
Runnymede Drama Group (Lear's Daughters by Elaine Feinstein and The Woman's Theatre Company)
( )
Kirkton Players (Laundry and Bourbon by James McLure )
Players Theatre (Return Journey )
North Wales Theatre , Llandudno
Llandudno , Wales
Irene Rostron
1999
SCO Kirkton Players
Total Arts Community Theatre Co. ( )
( )
Kirkton Players (The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter )
Phoenix Theatre Company (Blah Blah Blah )
,
,
1998
SCO Wick Players
Pump House Theatre Company ( )
( )
Wick Players (Lone Star by James McLure )
Phoenix Theatre Company (The Donahue Sisters )
,
,
1997
SCO Kirkintilloch Players
Broseley Amateur Dramatic Society ( )
( )
Kirkintilloch Players (The Dancing Fusilier (Original Play) by Mike Tibbetts )
Phoenix Theatre Company (Low Comedy Woman )
Northern Ireland
,
1996
ENG Barn Theatre Club, Welwyn Garden City
Barn Theatre Club, Welwyn Garden City (Plaza Suite [Act III] by Neil Simon )
( )
Stromness Drama Club (The Measures Taken by Brecht )
Telstars Theatre Company (Albert )
,
,
1995
ENG Dewsbury Arts Group
Dewsbury Arts Group (The Last Yankee by Arthur Miller )
( )
Tryst Theatre (September in the Rain by John Godber )
Telstars Theatre Company (A New Interest In Life )
,
,
1994
ENG Reigate Amateur Theatrical Society
Reigate Amateur Theatrical Society (Ball Boys by David Edgar )
( )
Lochcarron ADS (From Here to the Library by Jimmie Chinn )
Players Anonymous (Count Albany )
Arts Guild Theatre
Greenock , Scotland
1993
SCO Dunaverty Players
Runnymede Drama Group (Fragments by Murray Schisgal )
( )
Dunaverty Players (A Slight Ache by Harold Pinter )
Castaway, Aberystwyth (Three More Sleepless Nights )
Ardhowen Theatre ,
Enniskillen , Northern Ireland
Roma Tomelty
1992
WAL Castaway, Aberystwyth
Dewsbury Arts Theatre ( )
( )
George Square Players (The Donahue Sisters by Geraldine Aron )
Castaway, Aberystwyth (After Liverpool by James Saunders )
,
,
1991
NIR Bangor Drama Club
Players Theatre, Skelmersdale ( )
Bangor Drama Club (The Donahue Sisters by Geraldine Aron )
Tryst Theatre (Teechers by John Godber )
Castaway, Aberystwyth (The Maids by Jean Genet )
,
,
1990
ENG The Headley Players, Bristol
The Headley Players, Bristol (Bouncers by John Godber )
( )
Old Grammarians ADS (Kissed with a Loving Seal by Eric Paice )
( )
,
,
1989
ENG East Essex Players, Southend on Sea
East Essex Players, Southend on Sea (Day of the Dog by Graham Swannell )
( )
Crossmichael Drama Club (Can You Hear the Music by David Campton )
( )
,
,
1988
SCO Old Grammarians ADS
Players Theatre, Skelmersdale ( )
( )
Old Grammarians ADS (The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter )
( )
,
,
1987
ENG Heath Players, Box Hill, Surrey
Heath Players, Box Hill, Surrey (Private Lives [Act II] by Noël Coward )
( )
Tryst Theatre (Childhood )
( )
,
,
1986
WAL Players Theatre, Rhondda
Headley Players, Bristol ( )
( )
Lochcarron ADS (Once Upon a Seashore )
Players Theatre, Rhondda (The Forced Marriage by Molière )
,
,
1985
ENG Riverside Players, Heswall
Riverside Players, Heswall (Skirmishes by Catherine Hayes)
( )
Falkirk Players (The American Dream by Edward Albee )
Parc and Dare Theatre Company (One O'clock From the House )
,
,
1984
NIR Bangor Drama Club
Barn Theatre Club, Welwyn Garden City ( )
( )
Liberton Kirk Drama Group (Rise and Shine by Elda Magill Cadogan )
Bangor Drama Club (Winners by Brian Friel ) Note 1 ,
,
1983
ENG Bournemouth Little Theatre club
Bournemouth Little Theatre club (Little Eyolf by Henrik Ibsen )
( )
Eastwood Entertainers (The Mayor of Torontal by Gwenyth Jones )
( )
,
,
1982
WAL Players Theatre, Rhondda
Barn Theatre Club, Welwyn Garden City ( )
( )
Tryst Theatre (The Scheming Lieutenant by Richard Brinsley Sheridan )
Players Theatre, Rhondda (Sganarelle by Molière )
,
,
1981
ENG Harodian Theatre, London
Harodian Theatre, London (Playing With Fire by Barbara Field )
( )
Eastwood Entertainers (The Fish )
Berwyn Amateur Theatre Club (A Night Out )
,
,
1980
SCO Old Grammarians ADS
Maidenhead Players ( )
( )
Old Grammarians ADS (The Brute by Anton Chekhov )
Ynysybwl Theatre Group (The Real Inspector Hound )
,
,
1979
SCO Tryst Theatre
Barn Theatre Club, Welwyn Garden City ( )
( )
Tryst Theatre (Equus [Act I] by Peter Shaffer )
Ynysybwl Theatre Group (Visitor From Forest Hills )
,
,
1978
ENG Extension Theatre Company
Extension Theatre Company (Lessons To Be Learned by Dave Lodge )
( )
George Square Players (The Orchestra )
Players Theatre (See You Tomorrow )
,
,
1977
WAL Players Theatre, Rhondda
Riverside Players, Heswall ( )
( )
Broadford Drama Group (A Respectable Wedding by Bertolt Brecht )
Players Theatre, Rhondda (After I'm Gone by Frank Vickery )
,
,
1976
NIR Slemish Players, Ballymena
St Ursula Players, Bristol ( )
Slemish Players, Ballymena (No Why by Unknown)
Thurso Players (The Lady Aoi by Yukio Mishima )
( )
,
,
1975
ENG Maidenhead Players [Christian Council]
Maidenhead Players [Christian Council](Was He Anyone by N. F. Simpson )
( )
Dunaverty Players (Rise and Shine by Elda Magill Cadogan )
( )
,
,
1974
NIR Clarence Players, Belfast
Maidenhead Players ( )
Clarence Players, Belfast (Doreen by Unknown)
Larbert High School F P D S (One Season's King by George MacEwan Green )
( )
,
,
1973
ENG Claverley ?
Claverley Theatre Club (The Miracle Worker by William Gibson )
( )
George Square Players (Barnstable )
( )
,
,
1972
ENG Wye Players, Hereford
Wye Players, Hereford (Trevor by Unknown)
( )
The Florians, Inverness (Mutatis Mutandis by David Campton )
( )
,
,
1971
ENG Wye Players, Hereford
Wye Players, Hereford (How's the World Treating You by Roger Milner )
( )
Old Grammarians ADS (Hey Johnnie Cope by Jimmy Logan )
( )
,
,
1970
SCO Greenock Players
Whitley Bay Theatre Club ( )
( )
Greenock Players (A Shilling For The Beadle by James Scotland )
( )
,
,
1969
WAL Pontllanfraith W I
Sands Players (USA Airforce) ( )
( )
Troon Players (Philipp Hotz's Fury by Max Frisch )
Pontllanfraith W I (The Nine Fathers by Unknown)
,
,
1968
SCO Old Grammarians ADS
Y.M.C.A. Players, Hereford ( )
( )
Old Grammarians ADS (The Proposal by Anton Chekhov )
( )
,
,
1967
SCO Stirling Amateur Dramatic Society
South Norwood A.T.W.G. ( )
( )
Stirling Amateur Dramatic Society (The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter )
( )
,
,
1966
SCO George Square Players
Rickmansworth Players ( )
( )
George Square Players (The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder )
( )
,
,
1965
SCO Edinburgh Graduate Theatre
Stewart & Lloyds A.D.S. ( )
( )
Edinburgh Graduate Theatre (Getting and Spending by Michael J. Chepiga )
( )
,
,
1964
WAL Llynsafaddan Players
Harlequins Theatre Co. Carshalton ( )
( )
Stirling Amateur Drama Club (Himself When Young )
Llynsafaddan Players (They Simply Fade Away by T C Thomas )
,
,
1963
NIR Belfast Drama Circle
Southampton Student Players ( )
Belfast Drama Circle (Heaven Is An Island by Unknown)
Kirkwall Arts Club (The Long and the Short and the Tall by Willis Hall )
( )
,
,
1962
SCO Greenock Players
Link Players, Manchester ( )
( )
Greenock Players (Tail-Piece by Unknown)
( )
,
,
1961
ENG Oxford House Players
Oxford House Players (God Is My Mountain by Sybil Hollingdrake )
( )
Riverside Former Pupils D C, Stirling (What Every Woman Knows - Act I by J.M. Barrie )
( )
,
,
1960
ENG St Dunstan's Players, Bristol
St Dunstan's Players, Bristol (In the Zone by Eugene O'Neill )
( )
George Square Players (The Crucible - Act III by Arthur Miller )
( )
,
,
1959
NIR Belfast Drama Circle
Y.M.C.A. Players, Hereford ( )
Belfast Drama Circle (Liberation by Unknown)
Nairn Drama Club (Idea for a Play by Richard Tydeman )
( )
,
,
1958
SCO Edinburgh People's Theatre
( )
( )
Edinburgh People's Theatre (Who Loves Moraig [Act I] by Jack Ronder )
( )
,
,
1957
ENG Grangetown Boys' Club D G, Middlesbrough
Grangetown Boys' Club D G, Middlesbrough (Sordid Story by J.A.S Coppard )
( )
Greenock Players (Ae Market Nicht )
( )
,
,
1956
SCO Greenock Players
( )
( )
Greenock Players (The Reve's Tale by Unknown)
( )
,
,
1955
WAL Llynsafaddan Players
( )
( )
Huntly Gordon School F P D C (Still Waters by Delsie Darke )
Llynsafaddan Players (Davy Jones Dinner by T.C.Thomas)
,
,
1954
ENG Octave Theatre Club, Northwood
Octave Theatre Club, Northwood (The Wedding Morning by Arthur Schnitzler )
( )
Torch Theatre Club (A Surgeon for Lucinda by Jimmy Scotland )
( )
,
,
1953
SCO Barrhead Players' Club
( )
( )
Barrhead Players' Club (The Masterfu' Wife by Agnes Adam )
( )
,
,
1952
ENG Sutton Amateur Dramatic Club
Sutton Amateur Dramatic Club (The Heiress [Act II] by Augustus Goetz & Ruth Goetz )
( )
Glasgow Jewish Institute Players (Lucrezia Borgia's Little Party by A J Talbot )
( )
,
,
1951
SCO Barrhead Players' Club
( )
( )
Barrhead Players' Club (Displaced Persons by Elizabeth Milne )
( )
,
,
1950
ENG West Hertfordshire Players' Club
West Hertfordshire Players' Club (The Proposal by Anton Chekhov )
( )
Paisley Old Grammarians A D S (The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley )
( )
,
,
1949
ENG Birmingham International Centre
Birmingham International Centre (Pullman Car Hiawatha by Thornton Wilder )
( )
Paisley St John's Church Dramatic Club (Wind Along the Waste by Thomas Maclachlan Watson )
( )
,
,
1948
WAL Little Theatre, Aberdare
( )
( )
Barrhead Players' Club (A Bit of Land by Agnes Adam )
Little Theatre, Aberdare (Birds of a Feather by Thomas Doran )
,
,
1947
WAL Newport Civil Defence Dramatic Society
( )
( )
Torch Theatre Club (Possession )
Newport Civil Defence Dramatic Society (Jephthah's Daughter by Elma Levinger )
,
,
1940 to 1946
Break of 7 years for the duration of World War II
1939
ENG Unity Theatre Club, London
Unity Theatre Club, London (Plant in the Sun by Ben Bengal )
( )
Stirling Amateur Dramatic Club (Shells )
( )
,
,
1938
ENG Midland Bank Dramatic Society, London
Midland Bank Dramatic Society, London (Count Albany by Donald Carswell )
( )
Ardeer Recreation Club Drama Section (In The Zone by Eugene O'Neill )
( )
,
,
1937
ENG Newcastle Central Y W C A Drama Club
Newcastle Central Y W C A Drama Club (The Willing Spirit by Unknown)
( )
Newbattle Burns Club Dramatic Society (Hewers of Coal by Joe Corrie )
( )
,
,
1936
ENG Guild of Abbey Players, Abingdon
Guild of Abbey Players, Abingdon (The Spartan Girls by Unknown)
( )
Forfar Dramatic Society (The Dreamer )
( )
,
,
1935
ENG Welwyn Thalians
Welwyn Thalians (Not This Man by Unknown)
( )
Edinburgh Elocution Club (Martha )
( )
,
,
1934
SCO Barr & Stroud Dramatic Society, Glasgow
( )
( )
Barr & Stroud Dramatic Society, Glasgow (What Every Woman Knows [Act I] by J.M. Barrie )
( )
,
,
1933
ENG Birkenhead Institute Old Boys Drama Society
Birkenhead Institute Old Boys Drama Society (The Road of Poplars by Vernon Sylvaine )
( )
Golspie Women's Rural Institute (Glensheugh by Joe Corrie )
( )
,
,
1932
ENG The Players' Club, Beaconsfield
The Players' Club, Beaconsfield (On the High Road by Anton Chekhov )
( )
Edinburgh Women's Athletic Club (Symphony in Illusion by James Wallace Bell )
( )
,
,
1931
SCO Falkirk High School F P D C
( )
( )
Falkirk High School F P D C (Ardvorlich's Wife by Gordon Bottomley )
( )
,
,
1930
ENG Hampstead Play & Pageant Union
Hampstead Play & Pageant Union (The Man Who Wouldn't Go To Heaven by F. Sladen-Smith )
( )
Falkirk High School F P D C (Singing Sands )
( )
,
,
1929
ENG Liverpool Playgoers
Liverpool Playgoers (The Devil Among the Skins by Ernest Goodwin )
( )
Edinburgh Elocution Club (The Wooin' O't by W.D. Cocker )
( )
,
,
1928
SCO Ardrossan & Saltcoats Players
( )
( )
Ardrossan & Saltcoats Players (The Old Lady Shows her Medals by J.M. Barrie )
( )
,
,
1927
ENG Welwyn Garden City Society
Welwyn Garden City Society (Mr Sampson by John Sherman)
( )
Blaigowrie & Rattray A O D S (Campbell of Kilmhor by J.A. Ferguson )
( )
,
,
