We are a small and friendly group, from a wide range of ages and backgrounds who come together to enjoy a good social life and

the thrill of staging real live theatre productions.  New members are the life blood of the group and are always welcome.

Here are a list of the sort of things you might get involved in....

Acting               Backstage                  Choreography                Designing Sets                     Directing                Front of House            

       Van Driving                 Lighting                  Music                       Poster Design                               Production Manager          

Programme Design                           Props                   Publicity                             Refreshments                           Set Building            

                        Set Painting            Stage Management                   Social Secretary                        Wardrobe

Send us an e-mail if you have any questions, or call our Box Office number.   Find us on Facebook and chat with our members and supporters.

Why not come along to a rehearsal on Tuesday or Thursday evening or pop into one of our set building sessions on Sunday mornings.   It may seem daunting, but please DO come inside as so many others have before you.

An Insight into Backstage work

So what do all the above jobs actually involve??  Here is an attempt at a little clarification.

Acting - Learn your lines and then stand on stage, looking as if you know why you are there.

Backstage - Each production requires one whole day of manic action while you work out how the scenery goes together.  Then the rest of the week can be devoted to laughing at actors who can't remember why they are there.

Choreography - Its such fun to think up movements that will expose the casts lack of co-ordination.  If anyone shows signs of getting it right, be sure to have some major changes you can make at the last minute.

Designing Sets -  Interested in styles, fashions, colours and interior design?  Draw lovely pictures that the set builders have not a hope of recreating with mere poster paint, timber and canvas.

Director - Your chance to boss everyone else around and throw the odd tantrum.  Biggest tasks are finding a production manager and spending your nights awake in bed worrying.

Front of House - Simply turn up 30 mins before the performance in your best clothes and smile at the audience when they arrive.  We might remember to thank you for your support if you are really good!

Van Driver -  Wow! Would be really great to have one of these!!

Props - Blue Peter kids apply here.  A great excuse to visit all the junk shops and pound shops in Reading.  Often gets to play with glue, to snoop round other peoples houses and search e-bay.  Can sometimes be a real test of initiative!

Production Manager - You get to do all the legwork while the Director takes the glory.  Suitable for a compulsive organiser.

Programme Design - Good at computer graphics, word processing and an eye for layout? Then this ones for you.  When the cast forget to give you their biographies, you get to make it up!

Refreshments - Like Front of House, but you arrive later and are allowed to chat.

Set Building - Hours of fun with bits of wood and poster paints.  Ensure that everything you make is just too big to fit out through the door.

Social Secretary -  One long party!!

Wardrobe - Like props but you visit the charity shops instead.

Its social, its addictive, its fun.  Join us!

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