2011

WADS put on an afternoon of Magical Stories and family fun at the Gill Nethercott Centre in January. The two stories were The Goblin and the Grocer and Lydia and the Magic Handkerchief and there were craft activities for everyone during the interval. 

The company also put on a radio play of Cold Comfort Farm, a play by Paul Doust, adapted from the novel by Stella Gibbons, at the Gill Nethercott Centre the same weekend. This was inspired by the success of the WADS 50th Anniversary radio play version of Haul for the Shore. As the Cold Comfort Farm blurb said, "It’ll be like watching a radio recording – with you as the studio audience, with the added bonus of a bar and a delicious supper provided by H's Coffee Shop." 

In June, WADS collaborated with The White Hart to put on another murder mystery. A Recipe for Murder was an interactive story about a hotel refurbishment that goes wrong, and was performed either side of a three course dinner at the White Hart. 

In July, WADS put on its second consecutive open air Shakespeare. This time, the play was Twelfth Night, which played to packed audiences at The Lawn (by kind permission of Professor and Mrs Denning).