In this year’s Hereford Drama Festival, held over three days at The Courtyard Theatre last week, the Phoenix Youth Theatre won a hat-trick of awards and are through to the Quarter Finals of the All-England Theatre Festival.

Performing ‘The Monkey’s Paw’, an original play written for them by their Director, Brian Jackson (adapted from the Edwardian short story by W W Jacobs) they won the Stennett Trophy for Best Youth Team. Zoe Doughty collected the Janis Lewer Trophy for Best Individual Youth Performance. That also makes it ‘three-in-a-row’ for Phoenix Youth who have won ‘Best Youth Performance’ in each of their three years appearing in the Festival.

They crowned the week by being awarded the County Adult Drama Festival Challenge Cup against all-comers to go forward to the All-England Quarter Finals being held on April 9th at the Swan Theatre in Worcester.