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Woking Drama Festival Returns for Its 65th and Final Year

4th October 2024

There’s less than one week to go until the 65th and final Woking Drama Festival kicks off at the Rhoda McGaw Theatre!

This annual one-act festival is one of the largest of its kind in the UK and showcases talent from a variety of theatre groups locally and from further afield.

Theatre groups from the Woking area held the very first WDF back in 1959, leading to the establishment of the Woking Drama Association. Sixty-five years on, the WDA has a membership comprising of 15 local drama, light operatic, musical, dance and youth theatre groups that can be seen treading the boards on our stage this month.

Across two weeks, 18 amateur productions will be adjudicated by Chris Jaeger GoDA. At the end of the two weeks, three groups will be recalled to perform their play once more, culminating in the announcement of a winning piece.

This year marks the 65th and final Woking Drama Festival. Join us to share in the magic of amateur theatre and celebrate the culmination of over half a century of local talent!

Programme of Plays

Tue 8 Oct

Pyrford Little Theatre “Permission to Cry” by David Campton

Alternate Shadows Theatre Group “Situation Vacant” by Brian Walsh (New Play)

Wed 9 Oct

The Thursday Night Project “Ladies Day” by Amanda Whittington

Brightlight Theatre Company “Songkeeper” by Jamie Lakritz (New Play)

Thu 10 Oct – Send Amateur Dramatic Society “A Visit From Miss Prothero” by Alan Bennett

Ad Hoc “The Camberley Triangle” By A A Milne

Fri 11 Oct – Applause Youth Theatre Company “Antigone” A version by Owen McCafferty of the play by Sophocles (Youth)

Woking Youth Theatre “Branson” by Scott Cosnett (New Play, Youth)

Sat 12 Oct – Actables “Mayhem in Paris” by Members of The Actables (Not in competition) Reed”s School “Pity” by Rory Mullarky (Youth)

Bishopstoke Players “Lying In State” by Adrian Barrett (New Play, PG)

Tue 15 Oct – Woking Youth Theatre “Across The Veil” by Bruce Hazelton (New Play, PG)

Wed 16 Oct – Back To Front Theatre “Reckoning” by Kathy Mead

Lion And Unicorn “Departures” by Robert Sheppard (New Play, PG)

Thu 17 Oct – Pranksters Theatre Company “Fear and Misery of the Third Reich” by Bertolt Brecht Renegate Addlestone Theatrical Society “The Timeless Adventures of Alice” by Ndullee Stevens (New Play)

Fri 18 Oct – The Thursday Night Project “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams

Guildburys Theatre Company “Final Curtain” by Robert Sheppard (New Play)