Past Shows

 

2026

• Hamlet - Open Air at Reading Abbey Ruins - July
• PYT Presents .... Progress Does Pinewood - July
• Playhouse Creatures - June
• Home, I'm Darling - May
• The Picture of Dorian Gray - April
• 19th Writefest - March
• PYT 75th Anniversary Production - February
• Monologues and Bubbly, an elegant theatrical fundraiser - January

2025

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles - November
• Titus Andronicus - October/November
• Gagarin Way - September/October
• Parade - June
• The Cripple of Inishmaan - May
• Lovesong - March
• Night Watch - February

2024

• Screwed: A Midlife Christmas Crisis - December - Youth Theatre
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - November
• 18th Writefest - October
• The Importance of Being Earnest - Reading Abbey Ruins - July
• Progress premieres - June
  • Moles by Sarah Wright
  • Dirt by Caroline White
• Under Milk Wood - April/May
• The Last Quiz Night on Earth - March
• Albion - January/February

2023

2022

• Life is a Dream - December
• Liar's Teeth - November
• 16th WriteFest - November
• The Pride - October
• Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense - September
• Great Expectations - July - Reading Abbey Ruins
• Angels in America - June/July
• Catch-22 - May
• Yous Two - March/April
• The 15th Annual WriteFest - February
• Dark Sublime - January

2021

• Babe, the Sheep-Pig - December
• Radiant Vermin - November 
• Secret Life of Humans - October
• Romeo and Juliet - July - Reading Abbey Ruins
• Rotterdam - June - Programme
• Lessons in Life - May
• Scratch Reading (April 2021) - April
• Brewster's Millions - April
• Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons - March - Programme
• The F Word - January

2020

• Youth Theatre Week - November
• Women Centre Stage - October
• New Writing Week - October
• The Haunting of Hill House - February
• Wyrd Sisters - January

2019

• Romeo and Juliet - December
• Hangmen - November
• The Children - October
• 14th Annual Writefest - September
• King Lear - July - Reading Abbey Ruins
• When They Go Low - July
• Top Girls - June
• Premieres: Equivocators, Peter’s Wife - May
• One Million Tiny Plays About Reading - April
• A Doll's House - March
• Jerusalem - February
• Blood and Ice - January

2018

• The Oresteia - December
• Birdsong - November
• 13th Annual WriteFest - October
• Jesus Christ Superstar - September
• Scenes Cut From Other Plays / Do My Boobs Look Big In This? - August
• Much Ado About Nothing - July - Reading Abbey Ruins
• Poetry of War - July
• Happy Jack - June
• Progress Premieres: SH!T & Recovery Position - May
• Little Gem - April
• Mother Courage and Her Children - March
• A Clockwork Orange - February
• Maskerade - January

2017

• The Picture of Dorian Gray - December
• Buddy Cop 2 - November
• Hamlet - October
• 12th Annual WriteFest - September
• The Wind in the Willows - July - Caversham Court Gardens
• The Tempest - July
• Betrayal - June
• Murder, Margaret and Me - May
• Progress Premieres: The Writer Bird & The Swastika Party - April
• His Dark Materials - March
• Accidental Death of an Anarchist - February
• No Naughty Bits - January

2016

• Wolves - December
• 11th Annual WriteFest - November
• Dracula - October  
• The Long and the  Short and the Tall - September
• A Midsummer Night's Dream - July - Caversham Court Gardens
• Daisy Pulls it Off - July - Progress Youth Theatre
• Humble Boy - June
• Suddenly Last Summer - May
• Stones In His Pockets -  April
• Marat/Sade - March
• Steel Magnolias - February
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - January

2015

• The Hidden Truth - December - Progress Youth Theatre
• Brontë - November
• The 10th Annual Writefest - October
• Two-Way Mirror - September
• The Merry Wives of Windsor - July - at Caversham Court Gardens 
• Gormenghast - July - Progress Youth Theatre
• The Weir - June
• Talking Heads - April
• Animal Farm - March
• Gaslight - February
• The Three Musketeers - January

2014

• Mojo - December - Progress Youth Theatre
• Noises Off - November
• The 9th Annual WriteFest - October
• Darwin and Fitzroy - September
• Love's Labour's Lost… And Won - July - at Caversham Court Gardens 
• The Roses of Eyam - July - Progress Youth Theatre
• God of Carnage - June
• Not About Heroes - May
• Lady Windermere's Fan - April
• Trainspotting - March
• Bold Girls - February
• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - January

 

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