Director
Wally Wickham

Stage Manager
Steve Bottom

 The Festival Rounds
 Betchworth Festival
  Barn Theatre, Oxted
 24 February 1994

 Divisional Final
 Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon
 26 April 1994

 Area Final
 Thameside Theatre, Grays
 21 May 1994

 English Final
 Evans Theatre, Wilmslow
 4 June 1994

 British Final
 Arts Guild Theatre, Greenock
 25 June 1994

Charity Performance
Harlequin Theatre, Redhill
27 July 1994

• Winning the Betchworth Festival (we was robbed in '93!)
• Awarded best backstage team at the Ashcroft Theatre
• Despite a grey weekend in Essex we really could be on to something here...
• A long trek to Cheshire - and a sports hall for a theatre (complete with squash court for changing rooms!) Bet it was never like this in the RSC...
• An even longer haul to Scotland and no more cries of 'break a leg' as one member of the stage team does just that in rehearsal!
• Overnight in the Ardrossan Hotel - I can't believe it's still standing!
• Inverclyde certainly do the Festival in some style - but we're late for the civic reception (oops!)
• The final victory - I'm sure they'd have heard the cheer in Reigate!

RATS very own 'Scottish Play'!

The All England Festival is an annual national One-Act drama festival creaming the best in amateur theatre from over 100 regional qualifying rounds. The winner then proceeds to the British Final Festival to be pitted against the best of Scotland, Wales and Northen Ireland. The Festival has a long heritage, as have RATS in it, but this time was a little bit different....

After 1700 miles travelling, far too much frantic nervous pacing, countless broken tennis rackets (one broken ankle), a hell of a party to round it off and, well, anyway, we won!

The highlights really are too numerous to mention but here goes...

Chris Hannigan
Tim Sinclair
Steve Bottom

Cast List
OneEye
Rupert
Sven Svensson

Ball Boys Rupert (Tim Sinclair) and OneEye (Chris Hannigan) continue the brutal attack on Sven Svensson (Steve Bottom)

Ooh, he takes it so seriously sometimes!

And we even had to meet the mayor ...

RATS originally performed Ball Boys as part of a presentation of three one-act plays (with The Cagebirds and War) as Theatre Of The Slightly Absurd in May 1993. The original Ball Boys cast had David Purcell taking the role of Rupert but he was unfortunately unable to make the date of the first Festival performance the following February.

At one time or other a few dozen RATS gave valuable assistance backstage. Pictured are Pru