National Student Drama Festival

Times Online: "There is nothing like a brush with death to concentrate the mind. For the Sunday Times-sponsored National Student Drama Festival, it came just before Christmas, when the Arts Council decided to cull one in five of its regularly funded organisations. The NSDF was one of the lucky few to win an appeal against the loss of its grant, thanks in part to a national campaign led by festival graduates - many of whom have made careers in theatre - and, crucially, support from both this newspaper and the festival’s Scarborough home."