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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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30 January 2023
Checkout Girls Comedy 2023

Checkout Girls by Louise Roche – April 2023 Spring Production

For more years than most of us care to remember, the Woodcote Amateur Dramatic Society has entertained us on a regular basis, but seldom, if ever, have they exceeded the entertainment value they provided in bringing to the stage, ‘Checkout Girls’, a comedy by Jean Roche. It was an inspired choice of […]
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4 October 2022
The W I Blues

The W.I. Blues

A write-up by Sam Peates ……………. The WADs Autumn Production, ‘The WI Blues’, written by John Peel was something of a departure from the normal repertoire for this well-established and prolific society. Plays for all-women casts are hard to come by but, as in this case, the choice of play can be […]
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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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