Wokingham Theatre

George, a professor at a small college, and his wife, Martha, have just returned home, drunk from a Saturday night party. Martha announces, amidst general profanity, that she has invited a young couple, the opportunistic new college professor his shatteringly naïve new bride, to stop by for a nightcap. When they arrive the charade begins. The drinks flow and suddenly inhibitions melt. It becomes clear that Martha is determined to seduce the young professor, and George couldn’t care less.

George and Martha’s bitterness toward one another is provoked by the enormous personal sadness that they have pledged to keep to themselves: a secret that has seemingly been the foundation for their relationship.

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf

Arrogant, self centered and sharp tongued Jason Carmichael, successful co-author of Broadway romantic comedies, is facing two momentous events: he is about to marry a society belle and his collaborator is retiring. Enter Phoebe Craddock, Vermont schoolteacher and budding playwright. Quicker than a flash, Jason acquires a talented and adoring collaborator in the mousy Phoebe. Fame and success are theirs for ten years and then Jason’s world falls apart. His wife divorces him to go into politics and Phoebe, her love for Jason unrequited, marries a breezy journalist and moves to Paris. Jason goes into professional, financial and physical decline as a newly chic Phoebe returns, solo and successful.

Romantic Comedy

Sir Robert Chiltern is the perfect politician: honest, upright, and adored by his wife. At least, that’s what everyone thinks. But when the scheming Mrs. Cheveley saunters into his life armed with a scandalous secret from his past, his squeaky-clean reputation starts to look a little grubby. Sir Robert must rely on his best friend, the charming and perpetually unbothered bachelor Lord Goring, to help untangle the mess of blackmail, betrayal, and the gap between public virtue and private vice.

Will the blackmail schemes be foiled? Will husband and wife reconcile? And will the dandy bachelor finally find love?

An Ideal Husband

WT Associate Company Midas Theatre return to Wokingham Theatre with the Tony Award-winning Urinetown: The Musical. In the not-too-distant future, a crippling drought has caused a water shortage so awful that the government has enforced a ban on private toilets. Everyone is forced to use public bathrooms, all under the watch of one giant, evil corporation, profiteering by charging admission for one of humanity's most basic needs, with transportation to the much-fabled Urinetown as punishment for those who fail to comply. Amid the desperation, an unlikely hero plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom!

A touching, unnerving, and darkly comic satire on corruption, catastrophe, and musical theatre itself, Urinetown is an "audacious and exhilarating" take on a future that could await us all ...