May 2026 – Wokingham Theatre

Romantic Comedy in conversation with Director Mel Hampshire

Bernard Slade’s Romantic Comedy opens at Wokingham Theatre in a few weeks. We’ve sat down with director Mel Hampshire to hear what audiences can expect from the penultimate show of the 2025/26 season at Wokingham Theatre First of all, without giving too much away, tell us what Romantic Comedy is about? It starts off in 1965 in a New York townhouse, the home of acclaimed playwright Jason Carmichael. He has recently fallen out with his writing partner and is about to get married, when Phoebe Craddock enters his life and there is an instant attraction between them. Despite the c

Audition Notice: The Welkin

We are delighted to share audition details for our October show, The Welkin, by Lucy Kirkwoord. The Story Rural Suffolk, 1759. Sally Poppy has been sentenced to hang for a brutal murder, but at the eleventh hour, she claims to be pregnant. The court is forced to pause her execution and summon a jury of 12 local, ordinary women to decide her fate. With a restless crowd gathering outside, the matrons must navigate conflicting testimonies, personal prejudices, and the weight of a system that was never designed for them to question. As tensions rise, alliances shift and suspicions grow… because

Audition notice: Hansard

We are pleased to announce the audition notice for Hansard by Simon Woods, coming to Wokingham Theatre in September 2026. A sharp, witty and quietly devastating story over a single summer afternoon in 1988, when the Tory government were making swingeing changes to the fabric of British society, including the passing of Section 28. A marriage is at breaking point, where words are weapons, but silence can be just as destructive. Hansard premiered at the National Theatre in 2019. It explores how politics affects personal lives through the marriage of Robin, a Tory MP and Diana, his heavy drinki