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Keep up to date with the latest from WT, including details about auditions, reviews, and theatre news below.

Cast Announcement: Love From A Stranger

We are pleased to announce the cast and crew for our June 2025 show. Cast: CecilyAnna AlbieMavisBecca TizzardBruceKeir BustAunt LouiseBecky RobertsNigelMatthew HarcourtDr GribbleHeather MaceachernHodgsonBeckie MoirEthelLucy Rush Production Team: DirectorThomas Atkinson-JoyAssistant DirectorBailey McMenaminProduction ManagerSteve JoyStage ManagerSue De QuidtLightingNeil Goodhand & Gary ReesSound Beverley Hampton & Steve JoyCostumeSue DaykinPropsKevan Daykin Cecily has led a staid and proper existence. After winning a large amount of money in the lottery, she desperately yearns for a lif

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Cast Announcement : Home, I’m Darling

We are pleased to announce the cast and crew for our May 2025 show. Cast: JudySally RowlinsonJohnnyOwen GoodeFranGemma BurgessMarcusNicholas PriestSylviaKatie HamiltonAlexSavannah Bell Production Team: DirectorJerry RadburnProduction ManagerJanice EverettStage ManagerClaire LawrenceLightingMartin KemptonSound Alan JasperCostumeSue De QuidtPropsBob De Quidt The show runs from Thursday 1 May to Saturday 10 May 2025 at Wokingham Theatre. Tickets are now on sale and we look forward to welcoming you there.

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AUDITION NOTICE: Much Ado About Nothing

WT is committed to being a diverse and open organisation. Auditions are open to anyone, regardless of background or experience, and we particularly welcome those who have been traditionally under-represented in theatre. Synopsis It is the late summer of 1940 and the pilots of fighter command are taking a well earned rest and celebrating their victory in the country mansion of Leonata, a Kent landowner. Will Benedick and Beatrice ever overcome their verbal sparring to find true love with the help of Don Pedro? Will Hero and Claudio’s love survive the evil machinations of spiv, Don John? Will Do

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AUDITION NOTICE: Love From a Stranger

WT is committed to being a diverse and open organisation. Auditions are open to anyone, regardless of background or experience, and we particularly welcome those who have been traditionally under-represented in theatre. Synopsis Cecily has spent her twenties in a dull office job. After winning the lottery with her flatmate, she finally has the chance for some adventure. Enter Bruce Lovell, a handsome and charming stranger who sweeps her off her feet. In a whirlwind romance, she recklessly abandons her job, friends, and fiancé to settle in the remote and blissful surroundings of a country cotta

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AUDITION NOTICE: Home I’m Darling

WT is committed to being a diverse and open organisation. Auditions are open to anyone, regardless of background or experience, and we particularly welcome those who have been traditionally under-represented in theatre. IJudy and Johnny are trying to turn their backs on modern day life and live by the values and behaviour of the 1950s. The play explores the gender roles of both eras and the impact of trying to live this pretend lifestyle on relationships, work and happiness. The play won the Olivier award as best comedy in 2019 and is a nuanced examination about some of the lies we tell oursel

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AUDITION NOTICE: Pressure

WT is committed to being a diverse and open organisation. Auditions are open to anyone, regardless of background or experience, and we particularly welcome those who have been traditionally under-represented in theatre. In the tense hours leading up to D-Day, meteorologist James Stagg finds himself at the center of a high-stakes battle over the weather forecast. With the fate of Operation Overlord hanging in the balance, Stagg must navigate conflicting opinions from colleagues like the ambitious Colonel Irving P. Krick, appease the formidable General Eisenhower, and even find solace in the com

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AUDITION NOTICE: The Truth

WT is committed to being a diverse and open organisation. Auditions are open to anyone, regardless of background or experience, and we particularly welcome those who have been traditionally under-represented in theatre. Premiered in London in 2016, this is a brilliantly cruel comedy, and an unsettling tale of infidelity. Two couples. Friendship, suspicion, deceit… and the truth. Michel and his wife Laurence are happily married. Michel’s best friend Paul is also happily married, to Alice. But Michel and Alice are having an affair, and Laurence seems to know that something’s going on. How far wi

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