Awards

Boston Playgoers is proud to have won multiple awards and success during its lifetime

The Weir 2013

Hunstanton 2019

Hunstanton 2023

Hunstanton 2024

Boston Playgoers is affiliated to NODA and has enjoyed much success on a regional level at the NODA awards, winning many times and being nominated most years. Our most recent success there was in June 2019, winning best play in our region for 2018’s Love from a Stranger, directed by Jo Warrick.

Playgoers regularly took part in the ‘Skegness Play Festival’ and were very successful. The festival took place in June in the Embassy Theatre before professional adjudicators and drew entrants from all over the country.

Up against the best amateur groups in the country, Playgoers over the years won the ‘Best Play’ award, and our members have won trophies for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Character Actor, Best Character Actress, Best Lighting, Best Set, and ‘The Adjudicators Special Award for Acting’.

Boston Playgoers also had success at a national level in 2013. Following winning seven awards at the Skegness Festival including Best Play, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, the group were runners up at the All Winners Final in Devon with their performace of Conor Mcpherson’s The Weir, set in Ireland, and Rachel Rowett came away with a trophy for Best Actress in the awards ceremony.

Currently, we enjoy going to the Hunstanton One-Act Drama Festival every July and have been fortunate to be nominated for, and win multiple awards since we began attending in 2017.

In July 2017 the group took the one-act play Last Tango in Little Grimley by David Tristram to the Hunstanton Drama Festival in Norfolk, and won the trophy for Best Production. Additionally, one of the cast, Jo Warrick, won the award for Best Supporting Actress. All four cast members were nominated for acting awards. The group won the Best Production award again in July 2018 with Where the Mushrooms Grow (written by member and local playwright Kei Bailey). Daniel Poulson, Abby Johnson and Rachel Rowett were also all nominated for acting awards. The group was delighted to win Best Adult Production for a third time in 2019 with Clever Clogs, again written by Kei Bailey (who also won Best Original Script). Daniel Poulson, Jo Warrick and David O’Brien also won acting awards.

Following a break due to Covid-19, the society took another Kei Bailey script, Sunny Side Up, to the Hunstanton Drama Festival when it resumed in 2022. The group were nominated for Best Adult Production and won awards for Best Supporting Actor (Dan Poulson), Best Technical – Set (Julian and Jo Warrick) and Best Original Adult Script (Kei Bailey).

At The Hunstanton One Act Drama Festival 2023 we had a fantastic weekend! Laura Griffin won Best Original Script for Last Orders. As a society we all recognised what an incredible script this was and were so proud of Laura for their spectacular writing debut. Dan Poulson won Best Supporting Actor (for the third year running). Callum Forman was also nominated for Best Actor. All of our cast put on an incredible performance; the post show review was that it was a “masterclass in amateur acting”.
Laura then followed this with a beautiful script called A Study in Snowdrops, which Boston Playgoers performed at the Hunstanton Festival in July 2024. We were very proud to have the play nominated in the Best Play category, with nominations also for Best Actor (Julian Warrick), Best Actress (Jo Moules) and the set (Dan Poulson). Here’s looking forward to next year, when we will be returning to Hunstanton but also putting on a festival of our own!