A reading of the third and final script option for our next production will take place at Badgeworth Village Hall on 2nd August at 7.30 p.m. This is open to members and potential members who may be interested in taking part. Joining in with the reading is optional. The production dates are now set at Witcombe and Bentham Village Hall for the 17th, 18th and 19th of January 2024.

Please be sure to note our alternative venue of Badgeworth Hall for the reading. A choice will be made at the end of this final reading as to which play we will be putting on. Auditions to be held the next Wednesday, 9th August at Badgeworth and the selected cast will get together on Wednesday 16th again at Badgeworth. Following this rehearsal we will switch to Thursday evenings at Witcombe and Bentham Village Hall at 7.30pm.


‘A Bunch of Amateurs’ by Ian Hislop & Nick Newman.

A comedy for 4 female and 3 male cast members.

Keen to boost his flagging career, fading Hollywood action hero Jefferson Steele arrives in England to play King Lear in Stratford – only to find that this is not the birthplace of the Bard, but a sleepy Suffolk village. And instead of Kenneth Branagh and Dame Judi Dench, the cast are a bunch of amateurs trying to save their theatre from developers. Jefferson’s monstrous ego, vanity and insecurity are tested to the limit by the enthusiastic am-dram thespians. As acting worlds collide and Jefferson’s career implodes, he discovers some truths about himself – along with his inner Lear!

A reading of the second of the script options for our next production will take place at Badgeworth Village Hall on 26th July at 7.30 p.m. This is open to members and potential members who may be interested in taking part. Joining in with the reading is optional. The production dates are yet to be confirmed, but probably November 2023 or early 2024.

Please be sure to note our alternative venue of Badgeworth Hall for the reading. This is not where the show will be performed.

‘Out of Focus’ by Peter Gordon

Cast: 4 male, 5 female.
Set: Single interior. Church Hall, present day.

A new, updated version of the play was published in August 2009.

An unfortunate over-booking of the Church Hall results in a gathering of a wonderful mix of local characters, ranging from Evonne, the nervous Vicar's wife, to Leonard, a man intent on delivering a talk on steam locomotives to anyone who will listen!

Eventually they all unite to produce a pantomime but, as rehearsals proceed, alliances are forged and switched as the opening night looms. Events culminate backstage after the final performance.

We will be Reading through playscripts together in an informal environment at the Badgeworth Village Hall to help the director, Ian Clark, decide on which production to do for Winter 2023/24 (actual production dates to be confirmed). Note the actual production will not take place at Badgeworth.

Please come along if you would be interested in any capacity. Non members welcome.

Comfort and Joy
By Mike Harding

Casting: 5 male, 5 female

It’s Christmas. Relatives you hardly ever see and who are now very different from you arrive at your house for the festivities. No-one receives a present that is at all appropriate. Culinary disasters abound. Long-buried resentmen’s rear their ugly heads as the alcohol flows and tongues are loosened. Comfort and Joy, Mike Harding’s comedy, is painfully — but always amusingly — familiar.