About Us
The festival has been running for more than twenty years. In
2010 the organisation of the festival was taken over by
Nuneaton Arts Council (the charity registered body that runs
the Abbey Theatre, Nuneaton). This support to the festival, in
the form of providing a performing venue and technical staff,
gave renewed impetus and energy.
The Abbey Theatre has a 250 tiered seating auditorium, front
of house bar and refreshment counter, and 4 backstage
dressing rooms. It undergoes frequent maintenance and
upgrading of it's technical facilities and for the techies
amongst you, details of those facilities can be found on the
theatre website.
The 2016 festival attracted the largest number of entries in
the event’s history.
There were fourteen entries performed over five sessions and
an estimate of 90 actors and backstage staff being involved.
It is the aim to extend the festival to run over a full week of
six sessions by 2018.
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