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 […]
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 […]
For their 2024 Spring production the Woodcote Amateur Dramatic Society chose a triple bill of three one-act plays, which turned out to be an inspired decision.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
The Emperor’s New Clothes by Limelight Scripts Produced by Marcia Spiers & Sandy Worsfold The vain Emperor Fancypants cares about nothing except wearing and displaying clothes! The nation’s entire budget is has been squandered on clothes and the royal family is on the brink of abdication! Meanwhile, out in the streets, citizens […]
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