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5th Annual Rush Drama Festival
Millbank Theatre, February 21 - March 1, 2008
Results as announced by
Festival Adjudicator, Martin Maguire, on March 1st 2008

Award Recipient Play
Best Play - Open Nenagh Players  Tom, Dick and Harry by Ray and Michael Cooney
2nd Place - Open Moat Club, Naas Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
3rd Place - Open Kilmeen Drama Group The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh
Best Play - Confined Kilrush Drama Group The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh
2nd Place - Confined Bridge Drama Group I Do Not Like Thee, Dr Fell by Bernard Farrell
3rd Place - Confined Tinahealy Drama Group One Last White Horse by Dermot Bolger
Best Director - Open Frank Kirke - Moat Club, Naas Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Best Director - Confined Pat Whelan - Bridge Drama Group I Do Not Like Thee, Dr Fell by Bernard Farrell
Best Actress - Open Rachel Murphy - as Violet Play On by Rick Abbott (Ballycogley Players)
Best Actress - Confined Clodagh Cecil - as Hester Swain By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr (Ballycogley Players)
Best Actor - Open Donie Walsh - as Billy The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh (Kilmeen Drama Group)
Best Actor - Confined Tony Hickey - as Joe I Do Not Like Thee, Dr Fell by Bernard Farrell (Bridge Drama Group)
Best Supporting Actress - Open Elaine Connolly - as Auntie Eileen The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh (Kilmeen Drama Group)
Best Supporting Actress - Confined Ellie Condon - as Slippy Helen The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh (Kilrush Drama Group)
Best Supporting Actor - Open Brendan Hughes - as Solomon The Price by Arthur Miller (Estuary Players)
Best Supporting Actor - Confined Alan O'Neill - as Bartley The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh (Kilrush Drama Group)
Adjudicator's Award
Open
Pat Connaughton - as The Fox Crystal and Fox by Brian Friel (Bunclody/Kilmyshall Drama Group)
Adjudicator's Award
Confined
Tara Murphy - as Eileen One Last White Horse by Dermot Bolger (Tinahealy Drama Group)
Technical Award
Open
Moat Club, Naas - Design Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Technical Award
Confined
Tinahealy Drama Group -
Sound, Light & Staging
One Last White Horse by Dermot Bolger
Memorial Award
(Kathleen Hanratty Award)
Papa and his dog Crystal and Fox by Brian Friel (Bunclody/Kilmyshall Drama Group)

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Rush Dramatic Society Company Limited, The Millbank Theatre, Chapel Green, Rush, Co. Dublin, Ireland