We’re delighted to announce the cast for our June show, the hilarious farce Ding Dong by Marc Camoletti. Bernard MarcellinLloyd WhiteRobert RegnierStu HayllorMarie-LouiseBecky RobertsJacqueline MarcellinEmma CarverBarbaraCharlotte DruryJuliette RegnierHeather MacEachern The creative team is as follows. DirectorFiona RogersProduction ManagersSteve JoyHayley CrouchStage ManagerRachel PearsonSet DesignFiona RogersCostume leadMary RutterfordPropsMaria ThorpeLighting Design And OperationNeil GoodhandBecca TizzardSound DesignLiz SuttonSound OperationLiz SuttonSteve JoyRehearsal ContinuitySteve

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. Please note that these auditions are now closed. Synopsis We are about to hold a read-through and auditions for Shakespeare In Love, by Lee Hall, which is the final play of our 2022/23 Season. It will be performed 20th to 29th July. The play, with music, follows the fortunes of a young Will Shakespeare as he seeks to improve his work, his love life, and his inances.

The team for our April / May production of Terrence Rattigan’s wartime classic Flare Path are announced below. Cast Countess SkriczevinskyClare BrayMrs OakesPenny DixonPeter KyleMurray LindoSergeant MillerAlex DaykinPercyJoseph ReaCount SkriczevinskyVladimirs LazzrevsFlight Lieutenant GrahamMitchell ThorpePatricia GrahamGemma BurgessMrs Maudie MillerSally RowlandsonSquadron Leader SwansonJonathan Boulding Creative Team DirectorMargery JacksonProduction ManagerDavid AndrewsStage ManagerSophie VallelyASMKim SandersonLighting DesignNigel Lawson DickSound DesignJohn GoldCostumeSue DaykinProp

The actors and creative team for our March production of Things I Know to be True have been announced. Cast FranRachel PearsonBobPeter O’ SullivanRosieSophie EarlePipClea IqbalBenJack MartinMarkThomas Atkinson-Joy Creative Team DirectorJerry RadburnProduction ManagerJanice EverettStage ManagerKim SandersonLighting DesignMartin KemptonLighting OperationBob De QuidtSound DesignAlan JasperCostumeSue De QuidtSet DesignMartin Kempton / Jerry RadburnChoreographyChloé Collins Tickets are currently on sale for WT members and go on general sale on 1st January 2023.

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 We will be holding auditions in January for Ding Dong by Marc Camoletti. Bernard has discovered that his wife, Jacqueline, is having an affair with Robert. Being a reasonable business man, Bernard gives Robert two options to compensate for the affair: either he will sleep with Robert’s wife in order to keep things even, or he will have him killed. A hilarious Fre

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. Please note that these auditions have now closed. Synopsis Our play for next April/May is Terence Rattigan’s Flare Path, which was written in 1941 and is based on his actual experiences as an air gunner with the RAF during the Second World War. The play is set in ‘The Falcon’, a small hotel close to the Lincolnshire RAF base where we are introduced to a number of RAF men and th

Following the EGM on 15th November, we’re delighted to announce Alan Long will continue as Artistic Director his second season, and that preparations will soon begin for our 2023/4 season. Also elected to the board are two new Non-Executive Directors – John Gold and Beverly Hampton. For more information on how WT is managed, please see our Governance page.

Christopher Hampton wrote the play Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which he adapted from the epistolary novel by Choderlos de Laclos in the mid 70s. It was eventually produced  by the RSC in 1985 at The Other Place, Stratford, and was scheduled for just 22 performance with Alan Rickman in the role of ‘Valmont’. Its surprising commercial success led to a transfer to the West End in 1986, and the following year, he wrote the screen play for the much feted film version ‘Dangerous Liasons’ which came out in 1988. The novel, set in pre-revolutionary France in the 1780’s, is about French Aristocrats

Thursday 8th September As a mark of respect for the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, Wokingham Theatre will be closed tonight, and this evening’s performance (8th September) of A Bunch of Amateurs cancelled. We will also be closed on the day of Her Majesty’s funeral. We will be in contact with all patrons affected by the closure in due course, offering refunds or seats for an alternative performance where possible. — The Wokingham Theatre Board

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. Please note that these auditions have now closed. Written by Andrew Bovell, the co-writer of Strictly Ballroom, Things I Know To Be True is a co-production between Frantic Assembly, a company who use movement to explore the visual, lyrical and emotional elements of a play and the State Company of Southern Australia. It premiered in 2016 to great acclaim in both Adelaide and the