CONGRATULATIONS to Farnworth Little Theatre, who were awarded the Festival Shield for Best Production at the Wilmslow Guild One Act Play Festival.

Kath Booth from FLT won the award for Best Individual Performance in the Festival, which ran for three nights at the Wilmslow Guild.

Farnworth staged A Kind of Alaska by Harold Pinter. The play, directed by John Price, was inspired by Dr Oliver Sacks' account of his work with patients suffering from sleeping sickness. Booth played Deborah, a 16-year-old whose body is frozen into immobility until 29 years later she comes to life and tries to adjust to a changed world.

The play is also entered for the Hale One Act Drama Festival on June 6 and the Greater Manchester Drama Federation Festival of One Act Plays at the Theatre Royal, Ramsbottom, on June 13.

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