2018

2018 marked the 60th anniversary of WADS, which has been bringing community theatre to Whitchurch ever since. The first commemorative event was one of WADS’ Poetry and Prose evenings at the Parish Hall in April. The summer show was John Vanbrugh’s 1697 Restoration comedy The Provok’d Wife. 

The blurb said, “Mad in Chelsea? WADS took one look at the play about the hitherto virtuous Lady Brute who is provoked to infidelity by her sour husband Sir John Brute and thought, this story of the lives and loves of a group of massively entitled people with too much money and too much time on their hands in and around London’s most exclusive postcodes, who spend most of their time discussing their relationships with their friends, shopping and drinking, all sounds very Made in Chelsea. So they cast it in this very modern and equally shallow world.”