News

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

18 February 2015

A note from the Chair!

Hi all Thanks for a good post panto turnout last Thursday.  Just to confirm that we have this Thursday off so no meeting. Our next production will be 14/15/16 May 2015.  Bobby Thomas has offered to produce an Alan Ayckbourn play called Neighbourhood Watch which looks fun having read a bit of the […]
12 February 2015

A ‘Thank You’ from Carole Wylie – Pianist – Snow White and the Magnificent Seven Dwarfs Panto 2015

and more Comments from the cast of Snow White and the Magnificent Seven Dwarfs Panto 2015 The Magnificent Panto To all you people in the WADs – You should be playing to the Gods. For you have acted, sung and danced While Horse Tornado round you pranced. The back stage crew were working hard […]
27 December 2013

Sleeping Beauty… the pantomime of your dreams!

A Dream of a Pantomime! OH YES IT IS! Once upon a time, in Muddleby on the Marsh, a beautiful princess is born. The entire kingdom is delighted, apart from the evil Witch Hazel, who places a curse on the princess at her christening which means that by her 18th birthday, she […]
27 June 2013

Directors Workshop 2012

Great picture of John and Sandra at the directors workshop! (Excerpt courtesy of the ODN Newsletter June 2013) The Oxfordshire Drama Network (ODN) Director’s Workshop was run with insightful comments and humour by professional Director, Carol Metcalfe. Carol Metcalfe was the Founder and Artistic Director of the Bridewell Theatre for 10 years […]
3 December 2012

WADS Outing Saturday 24 November 2012

On Saturday 24th November, many WADS made the trip to the Wycombe Swan to see “Radio Times, the Musical”, set in a wartime BBC radio studio during a variety show. The stars were Gary Wilmot and Sarah Crowe, alongside a multi-talented troupe who could all sing, dance and play musical instruments. The […]
3 December 2012

Pam Moren-Brown

Many WADs members attended a Memorial Service at Dorchester Abbey, followed by a Funeral Service at Oxford Crematorium on Monday 26th November. Pam had been a long-standing member of WADs contributing her immense creative powers through costume and set design and script writing, the latter including a very successful pantomime version of […]