British Final Winners
Winners of the British Final of One-Act Plays, from 1927 to the present day. Hover over a year to see where the final was held.
| 2026 | England | TACT | The Weight of Small Things | Tilly Lane |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | England | Nantwich Players | Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons | Sam Steiner |
| 2024 | England | TACT | The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man | Tom Wright |
| 2023 | England | Total Arts Community Theatre | A Sudden Violent Outburst of Rain | Sami Ibrahim |
| 2022 | England | Total Arts Community Theatre | Metamorphoses | Mary Zimmerman |
| 2019 | England | Edcuation, Education, Education | The Wardrobe Ensemble | |
| 2018 | Wales | The Players’ Theatre | The Bridge | Gabe Torrens |
| 2017 | England | Total Arts Community Theatre | Lear’s Daughters | Elaine Feinstein & The Women's Theatre Workshop |
| 2016 | The Unknown Outcasts | Contractions | Mike Bartlett | |
| 2015 | Scotland | Kirkintilloch Players | Her Slightest Touch | Torben Betts |
| 2014 | Scotland | Fintry Amateur Dramatic Society | Victor's Dung | Seamus O'Rourke |
| 2013 | England | Troupers | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Act 1 | Peter Nichols |
| 2012 | Scotland | Kirkton Players | In The Blinking Of An Eye | Jeremy Hylton Davies |
| 2011 | Scotland | Tryst Theatre Club | Act 1 | Yasmina Reza |
| 2010 | N. Ireland | Lurig Drama Group | Melody | Deirdre Kinahan |
| 2009 | Scotland | Kirkton Players | Two | Jim Cartwright |
| 2008 | Scotland | Stewarton Drama Group | One Good Beating | Linda McLean |
| 2007 | England | Total Arts Community Theatre | Find Me | Olwen Wymark |
| 2006 | N. Ireland | Holywood Players | The Invisible Man | Jennifer Johnston |
| 2005 | Another Theatre Company | After Liverpool | James Saunders | |
| 2004 | England | The Young Theatre (at Beaconsfield) | Ball Boys | David Edgar |
| 2003 | Scotland | Kirkton Players | The Steamie | Tony Roper |
| 2002 | Scotland | Kirkton Players | Bouncers | John Godber |
| 2001 | Scotland | Wick Players | A Bench at the Edge | Luigi Jannuzi |
| 2000 | England | Runnymede Drama Group | Lear's Daughters | Elaine Feinstein & The Women's Theatre Workshop |
| 1999 | Scotland | Kirkton Players | The Dumb Waiter | Harold Pinter |
| 1998 | Scotland | Wick Players | Lone Star | James McLure |
| 1997 | Scotland | Kirkintilloch Players | The Dancing Fusilier | Mike Tibbetts |
| 1996 | England | Barn Theatre Club | – Plaza Suite Act 3 | Neil Simon |
| 1995 | England | Dewsbury Arts Group | The Last Yankee | Arthur Miller |
| 1994 | England | Reigate Amateur Theatrical Society | Ball Boys | David Edgar |
| 1993 | Scotland | Dunaverty Players | A Slight Ache | Harold Pinter |
| 1992 | Wales | Castaway, Aberystwyth | After Liverpool | James Saunders |
| 1991 | N. Ireland | Bangor Drama Club | The Donahue Sisters | Geraldine Aron |
| 1990 | England | Thee Headley Players, Bristol | Bouncers | John Godber |
| 1989 | England | East Essex Players | Day of the Dog | Graham Swannell |
| 1988 | Scotland | Paisley Old Grammarians | The Birthday Party | Harold Pinter |
| 1987 | England | Heath Players, Surrey | Private Lives Act 2 | Noel Coward |
| 1986 | England | The Players' Theatre, Gelligaer | The Forced Marriage | Moliere |
| 1985 | England | Riverside Players | Skirmishes | Catherine Hayes |
| 1984 | N. Ireland | Bangor Drama Club | Winners | Brian Friel |
| 1983 | England | Bournemouth Little Theatre Club | Little Eyolf | Henrik Ibsen |
| 1982 | England | The Players' Theatre, Gelligaer | Sganarelle | Moliere |
| 1981 | England | Harrodian Theatre Company | Playing with Fire | Barbara Field |
| 1980 | Scotland | Paisley Old Grammarians ADS | The Brute | Anton Chekhov |
| 1979 | Scotland | Tryst Theatre, Falkirk | Equus (Act 1) | Peter Shaffer |
| 1978 | Extension Theatre Co | Lessons to Be Learned | Dave Lodge | |
| 1977 | England | The Players' Theatre, Gelligaer | After I'm Gone | Frank Vickery |
| 1976 | N. Ireland | Slemish Players, Ballymena | No Why | — |
| 1975 | England | Maidenhead Players (Christian Council) | Was He Anyone? | N. F. Simpson |
| 1974 | N. Ireland | Clarence Players | Doreen | — |
| 1973 | England | Claverley Players | The Miracle Worker | William Gibson |
| 1972 | England | Wye Players, Hereford | Trevor | — |
| 1971 | England | Wye Players | How's the World Treating You? | Roger Milner |
| 1970 | Scotland | Greenock Players | A Shilling for the Beadle | James Scotland |
| 1969 | Wales | Pontllanfraith W.I. | The Nine Fathers | Leslie Bonnet |
| 1968 | Scotland | Paisley Old Grammarians ADS | The Proposal | Anton Chekhov |
| 1967 | Scotland | Stirling Amateur Dramatic Club | The Birthday Party | Harold Pinter |
| 1966 | Scotland | The George Square Players | The Long Christmas Dinner | Thornton Wilder |
| 1965 | Scotland | Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group | Getting & Spending | Michael J. Chepiga |
| 1964 | Wales | Llyn Safaddan Players | They Simply Fade Away | T.C. Thomas |
| 1963 | N. Ireland | Belfast Drama Circle | Heaven is an Island | — |
| 1962 | Scotland | Greenock Players | Tail Piece | — |
| 1961 | England | Oxford House Players | God is My Mountain | Sybil Hollingdrake |
| 1960 | England | St. Dunstan's Players, Bristol | In the Zone | — |
| 1959 | N. Ireland | Belfast Drama Circle | Liberation | — |
| 1958 | Scotland | Edinburgh People's Theatre | Who Loves Moraig (Act 1) | Jack Ronder |
| 1957 | Wales | Grangetown Boys Club D.G. | Sordid Story | J.A.S Coppard |
| 1956 | Scotland | Greenock Players | The Reeves Tale | — |
| 1955 | Wales | Llyn Safaddon Players | Davy Jones' Dinner | T. C. Thomas |
| 1954 | Octave Theatre Club, Northwood | The Wedding Morning | — | |
| 1953 | Scotland | The Barrhead Players Club | The Masterful Wife | — |
| 1952 | England | Sutton Amateur D.S. | The Heiress (Act 2) | Ruth & Augustus Goetz |
| 1951 | Scotland | The Barrhead Players Club | Displaced Persons | Elizabeth Milne |
| 1950 | England | West Hertfordshire Players Club | The Proposal | Anton Chekhov |
| 1949 | England | Birmingham International Centre | Pullman Car Hiawatha | Thornton Wilder |
| 1948 | Wales | Little Theatre, Aberdare | Birds of a Feather | Thomas Doran |
| 1947 | N. Ireland | Newpoint Civil Defence Drama Society | Jephthah's Daughter | Elma Levinger |
| 1939 | England | Unity Theatre Club, London | Plant in the Sun | Ben Bengal |
| 1938 | England | Midlands Bank Dramatic Society, London | Count Albany | Donald Carswell |
| 1937 | England | Newcastle Central Y.W.C.A. Drama Club | The Willing Spirit | — |
| 1936 | England | Guild of Abbey Players, Abingdon | The Spartan Girl | — |
| 1935 | England | Welwyn Thalians | Not This Man | — |
| 1934 | Scotland | Barr & Stroud Dramatic Society | What Every Woman Knows (Act 1) | — |
| 1933 | England | Birkenhead Institute Old Boys Dramatic Society | The Road of Poplars | Vernon Sylvaine |
| 1932 | England | The Players Club, Beaconsfield | On the High Road | — |
| 1931 | Scotland | Falkirk High School F.P.D.C. | Ardvorlich's Wife | Gordon Bottomley |
| 1930 | England | Hampstead Play & Pageant Union | The Man Who Wouldn't Go To Heaven | F. Sladen-Smith |
| 1929 | England | Liverpool Playgoers | The Devil Among The Skins | Ernest Goodwin |
| 1928 | Scotland | Ardrossan & Saltcoats Players | The Old Lady Shows Her Medals | J.M. Barrie |
| 1927 | England | Welwyn Garden Society | Mr Sampson | John Sherman |
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