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The Southern Counties Drama Festival - 2010 Adjudicator - Arthur Rochester GODA

The adjudicator for the 2010 festival will be Arthur Rochester. Arthur is a vice-president of the Bromley (Kent) Theatre Guild, comprising 17 member societies, which he chaired for 14 years. In addition to acting and directing for many years at Bromley Little Theatre where he was Artistic Director and with a number of other groups in the south-east, he has appeared in leading roles at the Churchill Theatre, on tour in Southern Spain and regularly at the Minack Open-Air Theatre in Porthcurno, Cornwall.

Having joined the Guild of Drama Adjudicators as an Associate in 2005, his first adjudicating engagement was the Southern Counties Drama Festival of that year and he is delighted to be returning to the Barn Theatre. Other festivals at which he has adjudicated more than once are the Kent Drama Association Full-Length Festival, the Southend-on-Sea Theatre Festival and the Duncan Rand Festival in Rochester, Kent.

Arthur's approach to adjudication is founded on lifelong practical involvement in the amateur theatre. He has participated in drama festivals for more than 30 years and has undertaken virtually every job, both on- and off-stage, receiving festival awards for acting, directing and design. He currently acts and directs primarily at the Beckenham Theatre Centre.