Auditions Archives – Wokingham Theatre

Audition notice: One Man, Two Guvnors

It may only be the middle of June, but we’re so excited to share audition details for our Christmas show, the incomparable One Man, Two Guvnors. This fast-paced, farcical comedy is based on Carlo Goldoni’s 1743 commedia dell’arte play The Servant of Two Masters and is perhaps best known for the National Theatre’s hughly-successful run starring James Corden. Set in 1960s Brighton, it mixes slapstick humour, mistaken identities, and quick-fire dialogue with a huge amount of ‘fourth-wall’ breaking and audience interaction. Definitely one for actors who like their action fast and fren

Audition Notice: Death and the Maiden

We are pleased to share the audition notice for the first of our new Studio Night productions. Death And The Maiden by Ariel Dorfman won the Olivier award for best new play in 1992 and is a fiercely intelligent, claustrophobic, and morally complex thriller. The story Set in an unspecified country that has recently transitioned from a dictatorship to a democratic government. The play depicts the conflict between a former political prisoner, her husband, and a doctor who may, or may not, have committed horrific crimes under the former regime. It questions how societies move forward after periods

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

Audition notice: An Ideal Husband

We’re pleased to share details for our final show of the 2025/26 season, directed by Emma Merchant. Written by Oscar Wilde in 1895, An Ideal Husband bubbles with romance, fashion, and society gossip. But underneath the froth lies a deeper story of political corruption, blackmail, and the dangers of holding people to impossible standards. Wilde’s heartfelt answer to all of these is love and forgiveness. It’s sad, then, and strangely ironic, that An Ideal Husband was to be Wilde’s last successful play before he himself was arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned in Reading G

Audition Notice: Romantic Comedy

We are very pleased to share audition details for Romantic Comedy, by Bernard Slade, coming to Wokingham Theatre next June. This charming, witty play is about the complex relationship between two Broadway collaborators whose professional partnership evolves into something deeper over the course of nine years. The story begins on Jason Carmichael’s wedding day, when he meets Phoebe Craddock, a mousy Vermont schoolteacher who becomes his new writing partner. Despite Jason’s marriage to society belle Allison St. James, he and Phoebe develop an immediate creative chemistry that produces a string o

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

Audition Notice: Lovesong

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

Christmas Production Auditions: The Unfriend

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

Audition Notice: The Winslow Boy

Terence Rattigan’s The Winslow Boy will be the second show of our 2025-26 season, performed in October 2025. Details for our June auditions are now available below. Synopsis The play is built around the actual court case of George Archer-Shee. George was accused of theft and expelled from the Osborne Naval College. Such was the outrage that the government had to pay £3,000 in compensation to the family. This seemingly trivial case burst into the public domain to demonstrate against the power of authority and those defending the right of the individual to be heard. The details of the case