The history of WADS

1983 was a real WADS fest. Not only did the company perform three plays - Suspect by Edward Percy, The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard and Ring Around the Moon by Christopher Fry - the company also staged its second olde tyme music hall

Once again, WADS performed three plays as well as putting on an old tyme music hall. The plays were Fools Rush In by Kenneth Horne, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, adapted from Lewis Carroll’s book, and Spring and Port Wine by Bill Naughton

The Sound of Murder by William Fairchild and Say Who You Are by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall were the two plays this year. Plus, there was the now statutory olde tyme music hall

By now, the old tyme music hall seemed to be an unstoppable feature of a WADS year. Plus, the company put on productions of Outside Edge by Richard Harris and Alice Through the Looking Glass, again adapted from Lewis Carroll’s original

Another manic year. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, The Madam by Gwen Cherrell and See How They Run by Philip King, plus another music hall

This year saw Dick Whittington - WADS’ first panto (oh yes it was) - Dracula (adapted from Bram Stoker's novel by Stephen Hotchner), as well as another music hall and the first ever poetry and prose evening

1989 saw productions of Separate Tables by Terrence Rattigan (pictured), a triple-bill of Saint Michael Comes to Shepherd's Bush by James Parish, Rattling the Railings by Peter Terson, and Death, by WADS’ own Paul Nethercott plus Cinderella

The nineties opened with All Things Bright and Beautiful by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, followed by a double bill of act three of Noel Coward’s Blythe Spirit (pictured) and Alan Ayckbourne’s Gosforth’s Fete

The Tulip Tree by NC Hunter, What Shall We Tell Caroline? by John Mortimer (pictured) and - for the second year running - Gosforth’s Fete by Alan Ayckbourn were the plays for 1991

This year saw two productions aimed predominantly at children - adaptations of Aladdin and The Wind in the Willows - plus I'll be Back Before Midnight! by Peter Colley, as well as a poetry and prose evening

This was the year of Daisy Pulls it Off by Denise Degan and a comedy double bill of Harlequinade by Terrence Rattigan and Rattling the Railings by Peter Terson (first performed by WADS in 1989)

1994 saw an adaptation of Sleeping Beauty by Katie Kingshill and Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country adapted by Emlyn Williams