Aberfeldy Drama Club won five of the top eight awards at the Perthshire Drama Festival, which ended in Birnam Arts on Saturday evening 26 February.
The festival was part of the Scottish Community Drama Association’s 79th national festival of one-act plays, with six clubs entering nine plays.
The Aberfeldy A team won the Hunter Trophy for the top play in the festival for the fourth successive year with its presentation of ‘Bondagers’ Act I by Sue Glover, set on a Scottish Border farm in 1860.
The play won awards for best staging and set, best depiction of Scottish life and character and best moment of theatre. The directors were Anna and Gilbert Price.
Perth Drama Club was second with You Don’t Know Me by Carolyn McCole, set in a geriatric alzheimer’s in-patient ward in the 1980s, directed by Helen Mitchell.
Aberfeldy B was the first winner of the Allan Proctor Trophy for the third placed play with Whispers, by Eric McDonald, set in a theatre dressing room in the present day. The director was David Brown.
The adjudicator was Dr Russell Boyce a former lecturer at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and a long supporter of the amateur drama movement.
The top two plays at Birnam now take part in the Northern Division Festival at Birnam Arts on 24-26 March, when they will be joined by winning teams from Aberdeen, Angus and Orkney to compete for a place in the Scottish final.

The Trophy Winners were (back row) from left - Carol Michalak (chairman Perthshire SCDA); Sandra Batty; Pamela Howat; Claire Bee; David Brown and (front row) - Lawrence Blair-Oliphant (presenter of trophies); Anna Price; Russell Boyce (adjudicator); Helen Mitchell and Allan Proctor.
Photograph by D M Phillips, Blairgowrie