Past Seasons

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1978 – 1979

The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco 

Habeus Corpus by Alan Bennett 

The Philanthropist by Christopher Hampton

The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

Treasure Island by Pantomime

The Way of the World by William Congrev 

Woyzeck by Georg Buchner 

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1979 – 1980

Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas 

A Cuckoo in the Nest by Ben Travers 

The Homecoming by Harold Pinter 

Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett 

Mecca by Ted Whitehead

Night School by Harold Pinter 

Oh, What a Lovely War by Joan Littlewood 

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1980 – 1981

Destiny by David Edgar

Lost Worlds by Wilson John Haire

The Old Country by Alan Bennett 

The Rainmaker by N Richard Nash 

You Call This Progress? by Revue 

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1981 – 1982

Cabaret by Joe Masterhoff

The Gingerbread Man by David Wood 

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

Hot L Baltimore by Lanford Wilson 

Outside Edge by Richard Harris

School for Scandal by Richard Sheridan 

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1982 – 1983

And A Nightingale Sang by Cecil Philip Taylor

Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi by Pam Gems 

Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton

Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Progress Revue by Revue

A View From The Bridge by Arthur Miller 

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1983 – 1984

Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo

The Beaux  Strategem by George Farquhar

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Hostage by Brendan Behan 

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 

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1984 – 1985

Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward

The Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

Groping For Words by Sue Townsend

Marriage by Nikolai Gogol

Not Quite Jerusalem by Paul Kember

The Soldier's Tale by C F Ramuz

Venus Observed by Christopher Fry 

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1985 – 1986

Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan

Cinderella by Pantomime

Hay Fever by Noel Coward

Knuckle by David Hare

One For The Road by Willy Russell

The Provok'd Wife by John Vanbrugh

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1986 – 1987

Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega Carpio

The Gin Game by D L Coburn

The Linden Treeby J B Priestley

Mixed Doubles

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill 

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1987 – 1988

A Chat with Mrs Chicky by Evelyn Glover

The Fascinating Foundling by George Bernard Shaw

How The Vote Was Won by Hamilton & St John

Lent by Michael Wilcox

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Old Tyme Music Hall by Revue

Pack of Lies by Hugh Whitemore

Phaedra by Jean Racine 

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1988 – 1989

Between Mouthfuls by Alan Ayckbourn

The Cherry Orchard  by Anton Chekhov

Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht

La Musica by Marguerite Duras

Playing With Fire by August Strindberg

Princess Ivona by Witold Gombrowicz

The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard

Tonight at 8.30 by Noel Coward 

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1989 – 1990

The Birds Stopped Singing by Lawrence Barker

La Dame Aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas 1

Exception to the Rule by Bertolt Brecht

Funeral Games by Joe Orton

Gamma Gurton's Needle by Anon

Kafka's Dick by Alan Bennett

Passion, Poison and Petrefaction by George Bernard Shaw

Saved by Edward Bond

Treason's Peace by Brian Woolland 

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1990 – 1991

Catastrophe by Samuel Beckett

Come and Go  by Samuel Beckett

A  Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

Footfalls by Samuel Beckett

The Hang of the Gaol by Howard Barker

Human Wishes by Samuel Beckett

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

Rockaby by Samuel Beckett

A Small Family Business by Alan Ayckbourn

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

What Where by Samuel Beckett

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1991 – 1992

Amadeus by Peter Shaffer

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

British Bulldog by Peter Stallwood

Gods or Vermin by Mark Robson

Happy Families by John Godber

Henceforward by Alan Ayckbourn

Rocket to the Moon by Clifford Odets 

She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

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1992 – 1993

Betrayal by Harold Pinter

Box by Len Collin

Daisy Pulls It Off  by Denise Deegan

Huis Clos by Jean-Paul Sartre

My Mother Said I Never Should by Charlotte Keatley

Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker

Richard III by William Shakespeare

The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew by Robert Bolt

What The Butler Saw  by Joe Orton

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1993 – 1994

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Once A Catholic by Mary O'Malley

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Savage/Love by Sam Shepard

Shakespeare Country by Peter Whelan

Something Unspoken by Tennessee Williams

Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams

Sweet Thing by Molly Bertrand 

Toad of Toad Hall by A A Mline

True West by Sam Shepard 

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1994 – 1995

The Bear by Anton Chekhov

Can't Pay, Won't Pay by Dario Fo

Don Perlimplin by Federico Garcia Lorca

The Fire Raisers by Max Frisch

From Here To Absurdity by Rob Allen

Greek by Stephen Berkoff 

Henry V by William Shakespeare in Reading Abbey Ruins

Hunger and Thirst by Eugene Ionesco

The Importance of Being Earnest  by Oscar Wilde

Legacy by Val Patchett

Light Shining In Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill

Measure For Measure by William Shakespeare

Mother's Day by Nevgeny Yavin

Moving On by Christine Lang

Oedipus by Sophocles

The Proposal by Anton Chekhov

The Snow Queen by Magito and Weil

Tartuffe by Moliere

Transylvanians by Jules Horne

The Viaduct by Marguerite Duras

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1995 – 1996

Amelia and the Man by Christine Lang

Bouncers by John Godber

The Brides by Harry Kondoleon

The Changeling by Thomas Middleton

Educating Rita by Willy Russell

The Gate  by Jules Horne

Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse

Murder in the Cathedral by Thomas Stearns Eliot

Nasty Neighbours by Debbie Isitt

Rats and Rotters by Jules Horne

A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney

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1996 – 1997

Macbeth by William Shakespeare in Reading Abbey Ruins

Death of a Salesman  by Arthur Miller

How The Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn

Lake Placid Blue, Metallic by Mic Dover

The Marat-Sade by Peter Weiss

Present Laughter by Noel Coward

Singled Out by William Campbell

Steaming by Nell Dunn

Talking Heads by Alan Bennett

Vinegar Tom by Caryl Churchill 

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1997 – 1998

King Lear by William Shakespeare in Reading Abbey Ruins

A Busy Man by Mic Dover

Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel

Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman

Guernica, Goodbye by William Campbell

Julius Cæsar by William Shakespeare

Mort by Terry Pratchett  (adapted by Stephen Briggs)

Mrs Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw

Placenta Forward by Mic Dover 

Travesties by Tom Stoppard 

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1998 – 1999

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare in Reading Abbey Ruins

The Bacchae by Euripides

Heart and Soul by Mic Dover

The Last Yankee by Arthur Miller

The Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe by C S Lewis

The Pope and the Witch by Dario Fo

The Relapse by Sir John Vanbrugh

Shakers - Restirred by John Godber 

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1999 – 2000

Richard III by William Shakespeare in  Reading Abbey Ruins

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll  (adapted Val Patchett)

Antigone by Jean Anouilh

Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring

The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg by Peter Nichols

Lettice and Lovage by Peter Schaffer

The Very Image by Adrian Czajkowski

Way Out by Val Patchett 

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2000 – 2001

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare  in Reading Abbey Ruins

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (adapted)

Do We Ever See Grace? by Noël Greig

Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

The Greatest Story Never Told by A Czajkowski & A Gauntlett

In the Final Analysis by Adrian Czajkowski

Party Spirit by Helen Wright

Silly Cow by Ben Elton

Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling

The Tin Hat by Sarah O'Donnell

Women in Power by Aristophanes 

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2001 – 2002

As You Like It by William Shakespeare  in Reading Abbey Ruins

An Experiment with an Air Pump by Shelagh Stephenson

For the Love of Tiffany by Adam Gauntlett

The Prune by Jeremy Rowe

Faces by Alison Carroll

Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh

My Sister In This House by Wendy Kesselman

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

School for Scandal by Richard Sheridan

The Arabian Nights by G Oram & A Czajkowski & A Gauntlett & H Wright

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2002 – 2003

Julius Cæsar by William Shakespeare  in Reading Abbey Ruins

Come To by Glynn Oram

Flowers For Mother by Adrian Czajkowski

My Very Own Story by Alan Ayckbourn

Peer Gynt by Henrik Isben

The Art of Success by Nick Dear

Goodnight Children Everywhere by Richard Nelson

The Water Engine by David Mamet

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2003 – 2004

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare in Reading Abbey Ruins

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn

Generation Games by Kerry Murdock

How To Become Famous by Arthur Burke

Rama and Sita by J Rowe & A Carroll

Too Clever By Half by Alexander Ostrovsky

Stepping Out by Richard Harris

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

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2004 – 2005

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (at South Hill Park)

Happy Days by Samuel Beckett

The Crucible  by Arthur Miller

The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross

The Caucasian Chalk Circle  by Bertolt Brecht

Some Scruples by Pauline Bird

50% by Mary Took

Charley's Aunt  by Brandon Thomas

The Government Inspector  by Nikolai Gogol (PYT)

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2005 – 2006

Dracula by Bram Stoker (PYT)

Romeo and Juliet  by William Shakespeare in Reading Abbey Ruins

The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband by Debbie Isitt - Photos

Godspell by John-Michael Tebelak & Stephen Schwartz

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Breaking The Code by Hugh Whitemore

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (PYT)

Blasted by Sarah Kane

In The Village They Are Saying by Mary Took

Hot Chit Chat .com by Arthur Burke

Skylight by David Hare

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2006 – 2007

The First WriteFest  - 22-25 January 2007

Alice in Storyland by Ali Carroll - 28 December 2006 –  6 January 2007

The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht - 16 –  25 November 2006

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare  in Reading Abbey Ruins

Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton

Hannah and Hanna by John Retallack

Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott

The Insect Play by The Brothers Capek (PYT)

Decadence by Stephen Berkoff

People in Cages by David Henry Wilson

The Husband Defeated by Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Shut Up! by Andrew Payne

Just by Ali Smith 

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2007 – 2008

Last Resort by Chris Owen - 26 June – 28 June 2008 (PYT)

Women of Lockerbie by Deborah Brevoort - 19 May –  24th May 2008 - Photos

Four Nights in Knaresborough by Paul Webb - 10 April –  19 April 2008

After Juliet by Sharman Macdonald - PYT -  10 March – 15 March 2008

A Midsummer Night's Dream  by William Shakespeare in Reading Abbey Ruins

Woman in Mind by Alan Ayckbourn

The Veil by Kerry Murdock

Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (adapted by Stuart Paterson) 

2nd Annual Write Fest:

• Second Thoughts  by Geoff Dallimore
• Baby Talk  by Arthur Burke
• Fling Story  by Tom Jensen
• That Day by Laura Blumenthal
• The C Word by Rebecca Smith
• Just You and Me by Arthur Burke 
• Loose Ends by Matthew Stevens 
• The Old Way by x
• Star Crossed Lovers by Richard Stanley

Return to the Forbidden Planet by Bob Carlton

PYT Week

• Can You Hear the Music? by David Campton 
• Rabbit  by David Foxton
• Ernie's Incredible Illucinations  by Alan Ayckbourn
• Rainbow's End by Noel Greig 
• Last Resort by Chris Owen

A Right Mouthful by Liz Carroll 

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2008 – 2009

The 3rd Annual WriteFest - 29– 31 January 2009

I, Bertolt Brecht by Bertolt Brecht

Five Children and It! by E Nesbit - adapted by Ali Carroll 29 December 2008 – 10 January 2009

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare in Reading Abbey Ruins

Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith

Kindertransport by Diane Samuels

The Tamer Tamed by John Fletcher

Macbeth by William Shakespeare (PYT)

Entrapment by Nicola Abraham

Popcorn by Ben Elton

The Dianalogues by Laurel Haines 8- June 2009 - Photos

PYT:

• Stone Soup   by Paul Thain
• Singing Door  by Doris Lessing
• Mugged by Andrew Payne
• Feather Boy by Nicky Singer et al
• Little Sweet Thing by Ron Williams 

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2009 – 2010

Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn 14–24 April 2010

Progress Youth Theatre:

• Travesties by Tom Stoppard Tuesday 23–27 March 2010 
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde - 22–27 March 2010

A Couple of Poor, English-speaking Poles by Dorota Maslowska, translated by Benjamin Paloff - 1–6 March 2010

The 4h Annual WriteFest - 5-7 November 2009 

Closer by Patrick Marber 5-10 October 2009

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare  3-12 December 2009

Don Juan Comes Back from the War by Odon von Horvath (PYT)

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Stephen Briggs 28 Jan -9 Feb 2010 - Photos

The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh 20-29 May 2010

Is This It? (Devised) by Parcans (PYT)

Beary Tales and Bored Office Drones (Devised) by Strobes (PYT)

Death and The Maiden by Ariel Dorfman

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2010 – 2011

Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas - 5–9 July 2011 (PYT)

Enjoy by Alan Bennett - 6–11 June 2011

All My Sons by Arthur Miller - 5–14 May 2011 

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 10–19 February 2011

The Ash Girl by Timberlake Wertenbaker - 10–16 January 2011 - Photos

Ajax by Sophocles -  25 November –  6 December 2010 

The 5th Annual WriteFest - 4–6 November 2010

Breathing Corpses by Laura Wade

Metamorphosis by F Kafka (Adapted by S. Berkoff)

Teechers by John Godber

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 

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2011 – 2012

The Tempest by William Shakespeare at Caversham Court Gardens -  July 2011

Proof by David Auburn - 12–17th September 2011

Blackbird by David Harrower - 17–22 October 2011

The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow - 17–26 November 2011

6th Annual Writefest - 8–10 December 2011

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman - 19–28 January 2012 - Photos

Art by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton - 20–25 February 2012

Lord of the Flies by William Golding - PYT - 19–24 March 2012

Gaggle of Saints, by Neil LaBute and Handbagged, by Moira Buffini - 10–14 April 2012

Mindgame by Anthony Horowitz - 10–19 May 2012

Mine by Polly Teale - 11–16 June 2012 - Photos

What's Wrong With Angry?  by Patrick Wilde - PYT - 2–7 July 2012

Henry IV Part One by William Shakespeare at Caversham Court Gardens - 12– 21 July 2012

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2012 – 2013

Calendar Girls by Tim Firth - 13–22 September 2012 - Photos

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard - 15–20 October 2012

The 7th WriteFest  - 14–17 November 2012

The Love Of The Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker - 10–15 December 2012

The Fifth Elephant by Stephen Briggs, based on the book by Terry Pratchett - 17–26 January 2013 - Photos

Rumours by Neil Simon - 18–23 February 2013

Double Bill: - 18–23 March 2013
The Long Road by Shelagh Stephenson and
WASP by Steve Martin 

Little Shop of Horrors Book & Lyrics by Howard Ashman, Music by Alan Menken - 18–27 April 2013 

Colder Than Here by Laura Wade Monday 20–25 May 2013

Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward - 17–22 June 2013 - Photos

Love's Labour's Lost and Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare - PYT - 8–13 July 2013

Macbeth by William Shakespeare at Caversham Court Gardens 18–27 July 2013

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2013 – 2014

The 8th Annual WriteFest - 17–19 October 2013 - Photos

Moonlight and Magnolias by Ron Hutchinson - 11–16 November 2013

An Absurdist Double Bill - PYT - 9–14 December 2013

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken, adapted by Russ Tunney - 16–25 January 2014

Bold Girls by Rona Munro Monday 17–22 February 2014 - Photos

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, adapted by Harry Gibson - 17–22 March 2014

Murmuring Judges by David Hare - PYT 1–2 April 2014 at Bulmershe Hall

Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde - 24 April–3 May 2014

Not About Heroes by Stephen MacDonald Monday 26th May – Saturday 31st May 2014

God of Carnage by Yazmina Reza, adapted by Christoper Hampton - 23–28 June 2014

The Roses of Eyam by Don Taylor - PYT - 14–19 July 2014

Love's Labour's Lost... And Won by William Shakespeare at Caversham Court Gardens 16–26 July 2014

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2014 – 2015

Darwin & FitzRoy by Juliet Aykroyd - 8–13 September 2014

The 9th Annual WriteFest - 15–18 October 2014 

Noises Off by Michael Frayn - 20–29 November 2014

Mojo by Jez Butterworth - PYT - 8–13 December 2014

The Three Musketeers by Ken Ludwig from the novel by Alexandre Dumas - 15–24 January 2015 

Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton - 23–28 February 2015 - Photos

Animal Farm by Peter Hall, adapted from the novel by George Orwell - 23–28 March 2015

Talking Heads by Alan Bennett - 20–25 April 2015

Killer Joe by Tracy Letts Monday 18–3 May 2015

The Weir by Conor McPherson - 15–20 June 2015 - Photos

Gormenghast by John Constable, adapted from the novels by Mervyn Peake - 7–11 July 2015

The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare - 15–25 July 2015 at Caversham Court Gardens

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2015 – 2016

Two-Way Mirror: a double bill by Arthur Miller - 21–26 September 2015 - Photos

The 10th Annual WriteFest - Wednesday 14–17 October 2015 - Photos

Brontë by Polly Teale - 9–14 November 2015

The Hidden Truth A Devised Play by Progess Youth Theatre - 8–12 December 2015

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Noah Smith - 14–23 January 2016 - Photos

Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling - 15–20 February 2016

Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss Monday 14–19 March 2016

Stones in his Pockets by Marie Jones Monday 11– 16 April 2016

Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams - 16–21 May 2016

Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones - 13–18 June 2016 - Photos

Daisy Pulls It Off by Denise Deegan - PYT - 5–9 July 2016

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare - 13– 23 July 2016 at Caversham Court Gardens