A reading of one of the script options for our next production. Hosted by Janet Clark, Director. 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 planned for October 2024.

We are open to new members, so please come and join us if you think you may be interested either in performing or offstage. Please arrive early so we can start at 7.30. There will be a small charge of £3 to go towards cost of hall hire and refreshments are included in this.

Please be sure to note our alternative venue of Badgeworth Hall for the reading. The show will be performed at Witcombe & Bentham Village Hall.

This fourth script reading is for ‘A Thirst For Blood’ by Caroline Stanley. A comedy about life, love and happiness in the realms of the underworld.

Cast required: 11 Female, 6 Male

Synopsis: Dracula is about to turn 1,000 years old and he is disillusioned with modern life.

His Butler, Igor, comes up with a great idea to throw a birthday party for Halloween - to help Dracula gain back some notoriety, reinvigorate his prowess and feel ‘alive’ again!

However, as the party starts to get underway, there are many things Dracula is not impressed by…

The ‘fresh virgin blood’ is not really up to its previous standards and his friends are starting to settle down and move on with their lives - even Igor to his surprise!

Will Dracula fall in love? Will he resign himself to a life of loneliness?
What does the mysterious, gate-crashing Fortune Teller see in store for his future? Who knows?....

A reading of one of the script options for our next production. Hosted by Janet Clark, Director. 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 planned for October 2024.

We are open to new members, so please come and join us if you think you may be interested either in performing or offstage. Please arrive early so we can start at 7.30. There will be a small charge of £3 to go towards cost of hall hire and refreshments are included in this.

Please be sure to note our alternative venue of Badgeworth Hall for the reading. The show will be performed at Witcombe & Bentham Village Hall.

This third script reading is for ‘’Allo ‘Allo’, a comedy by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, based on the hugely successful British television series, which ran for seven seasons, this uproarious comedy relates the adventures of a hapless cafe owner, Rene, in occupied France.

Cast required: 5 Female, 10 Male

Synopsis: Based on the hugely successful British television series, which ran for seven seasons, this uproarious comedy relates the adventures of a hapless cafe owner, Rene, in occupied France. You can see all of your favorite TV characters in the flesh, including Rene's tone-deaf wife Edith, Major-General von Klinkerhoffen and the Gestapo officer Herr Flick!

He and his wife have stashed a priceless portrait stolen by the Nazis in a sausage in their cellar, where two British airmen are also hiding until the Resistance can repatriate them. Communications with London using the wireless that is disguised as a cockatoo add to the many embarrassments this intrepid proprietor endures in the company of his patrons. News that the Führer is scheduled to visit the town inspires tricksters disguised as Hitler to frequent the cafe. Meanwhile, Rene summons all the wit he can muster to save his café and his life.

A reading of one of the script options for our next production. Hosted by Janet Clark, Director. 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 planned for October 2024.

We are open to new members, so please come and join us if you think you may be interested either in performing or offstage. Please arrive early so we can start at 7.30. There will be a small charge of £3 to go towards cost of hall hire and refreshments are included in this.

Please be sure to note our alternative venue of Badgeworth Hall for the reading. The show will be performed at Witcombe & Bentham Village Hall.

This first script reading is a comedy called ‘Murdered to Death’ by Peter Gordon, an hilarious spoof of the best of Agatha Christie traditions, set in 1930’s.

Cast required: Female – 5, Male – 5. All ages, broad range.

Synopsis: The play introduces the inept and bungling Inspector Pratt, who battles against the odds and his own incompetence to solve the murder of the house’s owner. It soon becomes clear that the murderer isn’t finished yet; will the miscreant be unmasked before everyone else has met their doom or will the audience die laughing first?