News

All WADS notices to members and snippets of information to keep WADS members up-to-date.

2 February 2026
Once Upon a time in Pantoland poster

Once Upon a time in Pantoland

WADS MAGIC IN PANTOLAND. The Woodcote Amateur Dramatic Society’s Pantomime for 2026, ‘Once Upon a Time inPantoland,’ written by Alex Jackson, played to full audiences at the Village Hall for sixperformances over the last two weekends in January. This production may have been aslight departure from the normal pantomime fare, but any […]
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26 May 2025
A Bunch of Amateurs

A BUNCH OF AMATEURS? YOU MUST BE JOKING!

How do you take Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ the greatest ‘Tragedy’ ever written and turn it into a side-splitting comedy, laced with expletives? This is what Ian Hislop and Nick Newman have done with ‘A Bunch of Amateurs’, Woodcote Amateur Dramatic Society’s Spring production for 2025. In so doing, the authors have presented […]
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14 January 2025

ALADDIN’S LAMP SHINES BRIGHT FOR WADS

After a gap of nearly five years the decision of the Woodcote Amateur Dramatic Society to stage their 55 th Panto was fully justified as their production of Alan P Frayne’s Aladdin illustrated their undoubted flair for this unique and eccentric British tradition. The change to a pre-Christmas format did nothing to […]
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25 November 2019
WADS News Notices Updates

Announcement: No Pantomime in January 2020

WADS are sad to announce that there will be no Pantomime this year! This was an extremely hard decision for us to make but due to lower membership numbers and no experienced members available to manage the pantomime production we are unable to perform our traditional pantomime this coming January. A pantomime […]
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25 February 2019
WADS News Notices Updates

WADS are sad to announce that there will be no Pantomime this year!

WADS are sad to announce that there will be no Pantomime this year! This was an extremely hard decision for us to make but due to lower membership numbers and no experienced members available to manage the pantomime production we are unable to perform our traditional pantomime this coming January.
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25 February 2019

Cinderella 2019 – A wonderful review

WOODCOTE AMATEUR DRAMATIC SOCIETY’S 2019 PANTOMIME CINDERELLA The snow which carpeted Woodcote to a depth of four inches, followed by minus temperatures, making pavements treacherous and most side-roads almost impassible, failed to deter the hardy locals who turned out in droves to ensure that the annual Woodcote pantomime played to sell-out audiences […]
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