The history of WADS

The 1971 productions were Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley plus a double bill of The Bridge by Joe Corrie and An Immortelle by Phillip Johnson

In 1972, there were two plays but four playwrights. WADS staged The White Sheep of the Family by L du Garde Peach and Ian Hay (pictured) and The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz

This was the year of Mad about Men by Peter Blackmore and Dear Octopus by Dodie Smith (pictured)

In 1974, WADS presented The Secret Tent by Elizabeth Addyman and Goodnight Mr Puffin by Arthur Lovegrove (pictured)

As well as two WADS productions - The House by the Lake by Hugh Mills (pictured) and Relative Values by Noel Coward - Junior WADS also put on a production, This was Johnny Salter by Aidan Chambers

The clue's in the name. Hobson’s Choice by Harold Brighouse was the only production that WADS staged in 1976

Normal service was resumed in 1977 with the staging of two plays - When we are Married by JB Priestley and The Paragon by Roland and Michael Pertwee (pictured) - WADS’ second visit to Michael Pertwee

WADS staged It’s Never too Late by Felicity Douglas and also put on another Noel Coward. This time, it was Blithe Spirit (pictured)

It was back to the sixties, as WADS reprised Bonaventure by Charlotte Hastings (pictured), which they first staged back in 1962. They also put on Lloyd George Knew my Father by William Douglas Hume, a playwright they first visited in 1964

There was only one production in 1980 - George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, celebrating the 21st anniversary of WADS’ first public performance

The two productions of 1981 were Wanted One Body by Raymond Dyer and The Deep Blue Sea by Terence Rattigan

1982 saw WADS' first foray into old tyme music hall. Meanwhile, the plays this year were Move Over Mrs Markham by Ray Clooney and John Chapman and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (pictured)