August 2025 – Wokingham Theatre

Dead Guilty: Director Q&A with Chris Westgate

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

Cast announcement: The Unfriend

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

Cast Announcement: WYT presents Frankenstein

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

Audition Notice: The Watsons

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