The adjudicator for 2026 will be Frances Colyer

Syllabus and Fees can be found here

All entries must be by Play and Perform

The closing date for entries is Sunday 25th January 2026

All payments will be card only.

Please attend at least 15 minutes before your class is timed to start and check in with the door stewards.

A copy of all pieces chosen must be available for the adjudicator. These must be labelled with the following information: Name of performer, Title, Author, Source/Publisher

The general public are admitted at a cost of £5.00 (all day.) Senior concessions £4.

Teachers of those performing, accompanists, festival patrons and children under 16 are admitted free.

If unable to attend please give as much notice as possible. Fees cannot be refunded.

Waldegrave School, Fifth Cross Road, Twickenham, TW2 5LH

Frances trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London (Teacher’s Diploma in Speech & Drama). She worked as an actress at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, Palace Theatre Watford, & Cork Opera House, Eire. She has undertaken Theatre-in-Education work at the Cockpit Theatre and the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry.

Frances has worked at the BBC as a presenter of the schools television programme “Merry Go Round” & BBC Radio programme “Discovery” and as a presenter/announcer for Border Television, Carlisle. Overseas posts include English language teaching in Padua & Rome, Italy and she was a Visiting Fellow in Drama at the University of West Indies, Barbados.

She has recently retired from teaching speech & drama at Berkhamsted School and is still a LAMDA teacher and Speech adjudicator for The British & International Federation of Festivals for Music, Dance & Speech and an examiner for The English Speaking Board and a member of Equity & S.T.S.D.