Wellow Amateur Dramatic Society
Our group was formed in 1981 as a spin-off from
two functions put on by the Village School P.T.A.
We originally called ourselves the Wellow Awful
Dramatic society, but, over the years our regular supporters persuaded us
to drop the Awful and hence we are now known as the Wellow Amateur
Dramatic Society or WADS.
The majority of us live in the village or have
connections with Wellow. Ages range from 8 to 80 and our membership is
currently 36 people. This poses a few challenges when deciding what to do
next, because everybody always wants to take part, doesn't want too many
lines to learn and rarely learn lines properly anyway! That's the fun of
amateur dramatics!
Our aim is to enjoy ourselves in the planning and
rehearsing stage of our productions and to bring live theatre, fun and
laughter to our local friends and neighbours. At which we feel we
definately succeed at......
If you would like to join our group you will be
very welcome, be it behind stage or treading the boards. Just contact our
Chairman Mary Messer on 01225 832732 or Joy Fortune on 01225 319584 or
turn up on a Tuesday night between 8.00pm to 10.00pm to have a laugh/look!
OUR
NEXT PERFORMANCE
Details
yet to be decided - please visit again later
During
our history we have performed a wide variety of performances from
Pantomime, Thriller, Comedy, Farce, Serious to Variety and Music Hall the
list below will hopefully demonstrate the breadth of our "Talents"
The Shows performed to
date:
- 1978 - PTA Victorian Evening.
- 1979 - "Oh what a beauty" a Flower
Show sketch.
- Dec 1981 - Cinderella
- Jan 1983 - Snow White
- Oct 1983 - Victorian Evening
- Jan 1984 - Aladdin
- Feb 1985 - Alice in Wellowland
- Oct 1985 - Packet of Twenties
- Dec 1986 - A Christmas Box, Jack in the
Beanstalk and At the changing of the Year
- Sept 1987 - "A Double Bill" Dark
Brown and Ernies Incredible Illucinations
- Feb 1988 - Puss in Boots
- Oct 1988 - "A Triple Bill" At the
Golden Ram, The Patient and It won't be a stylish marriage
- Mar 1989 - Ali's Barbara and The Sleeping
Cutey
- Oct 1989 - A French Evening
- Feb 1990 - Little Red Riding Hood
- Oct 1990 - What did you sing in the war Daddy?
- Feb 1991 - Humpty Dumpty
- Nov 1991 - Robin Hood
- May 1992 - 90/90 Vision
- May 1993 - Green for Danger, Sold to the
Gypsies and Murder at Muckleby Manor
- Jun 1993 - Wellow weekend - Floor Show
- Feb 1994 - Ali Baba and the forty thieves
- Sept 1994 - Supper Show - "Must the Show
go on?"
- Feb 1995 - The Pied Piper of Hamlin
- Dec 1995 - "Christmas Extravaganza"
The Plot Thickens, Childrens Play and the true story of Good King
Wenceslas
- May 1996 - Supper Show - Flower Show Sketch
and Hanging by a Fred
- Feb 1997 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Oct 1997 - Around the World in Eighty Minutes
- Apr 1998 - "Three Piece Suite" -
Cards, Cups and Crystal Ball, Mantrap and When one door closes
- Feb 1999 - Frankenstien the Panto
- Oct 1999 - An Autumn Collection - Halfway up
the wall, Hard times at Batway Hall and Come now to be joined
- May 2000 - Millennium Miscellany - A Review
- Feb 2001 - Afternoon at the Seaside and Forty
Winks Beauty
- Sept 2001- "Grounds for Murder" a
Murder Mystery Supper evening
- Feb 2002 - Cinderella
- Oct 2002 - "Autumn
Antics"
- May 2003 - "Pick
of the Bunch" Supper Show
- March 2004 - Murder Mystery Supper Evening - "Murder
at the New Vicarage"
- April 2005 - "Bunfight at the O.K. Corral"
- Supper Show
- March 2006 - The Patient by Agatha Christie,
Gosforth's Fete by Alan Ayckbourn
- Dec 2006 - "The Tangled Web" a
murder mystery by Janet Kilgallon-Brook and Fiona J Roberton