One Act Festival

The LOST Theatre Company has run the One Act Festival annually for the past 24 years.

One of the primary aims of the festival is to encourage new talent, offering the chance for new writers and directors to air their work on the London fringe in a friendly and appreciative environment.

This year the Festival is pleased to return to the Tabard Theatre from the 7th to 19th April. A lively fringe venue that already has an established reputation for encouraging new writing. It is a black box space just a minute walk from Turnham Green station.

Running over two weeks, the One Act Festival presents a diverse and stimulating programme.

This year LOST is pleased to announce that the festival adjudicator will be Mr Jeremy Kingston.

Jeremy has been a theatre critic on The Times for the past twenty years, before which he was the theatre critic of Punch magazine for 10 years. He was born in London and brought up in various Home Counties. He started his theatrical career working at the Criterion Theatre where Waiting for Godot was running. This inspired him to write his first stage play No Concern of Mine (with John Fraser and Alan Dobie) which premiered at the Westminster Theatre. Three further plays followed; Signs of the Times (with Kenneth More and Liza Goddard) ran at the Vaudeville Theatre for six months; Oedipus at the Crossroads (King's Head Theatre) & Making Dickie Happy (Rosemary Branch Theatre). During his career he has written Radio & TV plays as well as being the restaurant critic for What's On for 6 years. He is the author of a novel Love Among Unicorns (Constable) and two children's books: The Dustbin Who wanted to be a General and The Bird who Saved the Jungle (Faber). His first book of poems, On the Lookout, is to be published in 2008.

The application process for the 2008 One Act Festival is now closed.

LOST Theatre Company