Our 2025/26 season opens with the psychological thriller ‘Dead Guilty’ by Richard Harris. We sat down with director Chris Westgate to hear what audiences can expect from this production that is sure to open our new season with a bang… Without giving too much away, what is ‘Dead Guilty’ about? It’s a modern psychological thriller. Well, I say modern, it’s now 30 years old, but when it was written it was an incredibly contemporary, modern piece. But I’ve had to set it very much in 1994, because if you set it in the present day, you would have to introduce a mobile phone, and that would mean ther

We are very pleased to share the full cast for our Christmas Show, Steven Moffat’s The Unfriend. “Thanks to all who auditioned,” says director Fiona Rogers. “There was a lot of interest and we sincerely hope that those who were not cast this time will audition for some of the other fantastic plays in our forthcoming season.” The cast is as follows: PeterAdrian McDougallDebbiePenny DixonElsaRachel PearsonNeighbourDavid RileyPC JunkinPaul IttaAlexJack MitchellRosieAnnabel Brittain Fiona Rogers • Directorpinkfrogers74@gmail.com Sue De Quidt • Production Manager

We are very pleased to share the full cast for Wokingham Youth Theatre’s production of Frankenstein. An eighteen-year-old girl, Mary Shelley, dreams up a monster whose tragic story will capture the imaginations of generations to come. A young scientist by the name of Frankenstein breathes life into a gruesome body. Banished into an indifferent world, Frankenstein’s creature desperately seeks out his true identity, but the agony of rejection and a broken promise push him into darkness. Rona Munro’s brilliant adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece places the writer herself amongst

We are pleased to share audition details for our March 2026 show, Laura Wade’s hilarious and modern comedy, The Watsons. We’ve sat down with director Hedda Bird to hear what’s in store. The story Laura Wade’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel sparkles with Austen’s wit and humour. Every scene you would expect from a Jane Austen novel is here, but not in quite the way you might expect it. This is about what happens when the writer loses the plot and the characters resent discovering they are not real, but there must still be proposals, rejections, declarations of love and even a ball

We are very pleased to announce the cast and crew for our production of Terence Rattigan’s beautiful play, The Winslow Boy, directed by Jenny Brown. Thanks, as always, to everyone who auditioned, with both our director and production manager praising the “particularly high” standard of auditionees. The cast is as follows: Ronnie WinslowTommy Adams / Archie CassidyVioletSallyanne SteathamGrace WinslowSusanne LeeArthur WinslowSteve HallCatherine WinslowRhianna InmanDickie WinslowJamie WatkinsJohn WatherstoneClive ElkingtonDesmond CurryPaul GittusMiss BarnesEllen KilvingtonFredA

Auditions for our January 2026 show will be taking place this summer. Abi Morgan’s ‘Lovesong’ is a beautiful story of one couple, told at two different points in their lives: as young lovers in their 20s and as worldly companions looking back at a lifetime spent together.  This is the story of an old couple’s love life inspired by the TS Eliot poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The story This is an extraordinary depiction of a very ordinary relationship, where past and present selves collide. All relationships have their ups and downs, where the optimism of youth and newlywed squa

A VE Day retelling of Shakespeare’s most famous romantic comedy will be rounding off  the June 2024/25 season at Wokingham Theatre. We sat down with Director Alan Long to hear what audiences can expect from our production of Much Ado About Nothing. Without giving too much away for those who aren’t familiar, can you tell us a bit about the story? In many ways, it’s one of the original rom coms, featuring all the classic rom com tropes. People fall in love, there is a problem, people fall out of love, there is a genius solution and all is well. It’s your basic rom com structure! But in this case

The creative opportunities for getting involved with a Wokingham Theatre production extend far beyond acting, with the technical teams backstage providing the beating heart of theatre life. As we approach our 2025-26 season, our Technical Director Gary Rees, wants to lift the curtain on backstage opportunities, and take some of the fear out of people who may wish to learn a new technical skill, but are nervous about what it might entail.  We sat down with him to hear what opportunities there are for getting involved with technical theatre and how to sign up, whatever your level of experie

We are very pleased to announce the cast and crew for the first production of our 2025/26 season, Richard Harris’ Dead Guilty, directed by Chris Westgate. “Thanks to all who auditioned for Dead Guilty,” says Chris. “There was a lot of interest and the usual high standards at a Wokingham Theatre audition, with competition for every part. I sincerely hope that those who were not cast this time will audition for some of the other fantastic plays in our forthcoming season as there are some great roles available.” Julia DarrowLaura HartleyMargaret HaddrellRosalind

Steven Moffat’s The Unfriend will be the third show of our 2025-26 season, performed in December 2025. Details for our July auditions are now available below. Steven Moffat is an award-winning writer whose internationally successful television shows include Doctor Who, Sherlock and Dracula. The latter two were co-written with actor and writer Mark Gatiss, who made his stage directorial debut with The Unfriend. Synopsis While on holiday, Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver, USA. She’s less than woke but kind of wonderful. They agree to stay in touch- because