Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies

Tickets are now on sale for FEATS 2010. You can order them by phone on (Germany) 0151 5229 5530. From outside Germany, phone +49 151 5229 5530.

The latest FEATS newsletter is now available to download.

Angela Dodds, 1 September 1943-15 November 2009

Angela was honorary secretary to the FEATS steering committee for many years. She will be greatly missed by her family and by the FEATS community.

We reproduce here the tributes paid to her in the FEATS newsletter.

The groups invited to take part in FEATS 2010 in Bad Homburg have all replied. The provisional participants can now be announced (although changes are possible before curtain-up in May).

DAW – the Drama Association of Wales – announces its brand new Web site. It has news, views, information on the services provided by DAW, and notices of future events in the DAW calendar.

The nightmare of sound engineers: the CD skips, the CD player has gone to sleep and “forgotten” the cued-up track, or your stab at a fiddly Play button in the semi-darkness misses its target.

Here’s a recommendation from the FEATS Webmaster.

It’s ten years since www.feats.org (as it was at the time) saw the light of day. In that time Web technology has changed considerably; but until now the Web site was still very much handcrafted, and didn’t take much advantage of the new possibilities. Now the Web site has had a facelift, under the bonnet as well as on the surface.

FEATS 2010 is organised by Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre e.V. (or FEST to its friends) and will take place from 13 to 16 May at the Kurtheater in Bad Homburg, a charming small town nestling at the foot of the Taunus hills and forests, some 20 km north of Frankfurt.

The FEATS newsletter for June 2009, with reports and reviews of FEATS 2009 in Brussels, is now published. Download it here in PDF or Microsoft Word format.

FEATS 2009 in Brussels saw the innovation of a youth festival, “FEATlets”, running in parallel with the adult festival. The awards were presented as follows.