Lorn Drama Festival 2024

This year’s festival features a range of comedy plays with teams from Appin, Campbeltown, Oban, Benderloch, Taynuilt and Seil. There are several youth teams from primary Age (Lochnell’s two Roman plays) to High School as well as youth sections of the TADDS and Seil Drama Club. TADDS juniors are bringing a huge cast for Ernie’s incredible Illlucinations by well-known playwright Alan Ayckbourn and it is a first entry by an

Oban High School team, performing An Inconvenient Crime.

Accent players are returning to the festival with Fate’s Thread, a dark comedy set partly in a graveyard with a recently deceased businesswoman coming to terms with her death with the help of two friendly ghosts. Festival stalwarts Benderloch and North Connel Drama Club, are performing Trapped!, a coarse acting comedy, where things don’t go according to plan.

There is a wealth of writing talent on display too with both Seil plays having been written by club members. Rude Mechanicals is written by John Colston and performed by the youth team. Four girls decide to put on a play in an old country house and nothing could possibly go wrong – or could it? The Seil adults are performing A Bird in the Sand by Caroline Morgan, a three handed comedy.

One of the Lochnell plays is also written by one of the extremely talented school pupils.

Appin’s Magnificent Seven are coming to Oban after triumphing in the North Lorn Drama Festival. Their comedy production of Market Values concerns a con man trying to sell a dodgy house to an unsuspecting couple.

Tickets for the festival can be bought online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/ lorn-drama-festival