Summer is finally here and so is our Dream! Last weekend WTG resurrected its outdoor summer show with Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The sun was shining, the evenings were warm, the refreshments tent was pitched – and it’s happening all over again this weekend. So book your tickets, pack your
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A reminder that auditions for the autumn production, After The Dance, will be held on Sunday 28th July (3-5pm) and Tuesday 30th July (7.30-10pm) at Braywood School Hall, Oakley Green Rd, Oakley Green, Windsor SL4 4QF. Rehearsals: Tuesday and Thursday evenings from the end of August 2019. Sunday rehearsals to
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As rehearsals and each of the acts and scenes for the Dream shape up, and the company start learning lines, discovering their characters, working out exits and entrances – we are finding plenty of fun, many moving moments and lots of magic in this most remarkable play by Shakespeare.
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This year, access to the Guildhall – our usual venue for the autumn play – has been restricted, resulting in us being able to perform there for four nights only instead of five, omitting the Wednesday. Therefore, discussions concerning the possibility of staging the Wednesday show in the Castle
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Last week I was delighted to meet with a mix of both established and new Windsor Theatre Guild members for casting for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (coincidentally and wonderfully on Shakespeare’s birthday). It is with great pleasure that I share the cast list of our talented and welcoming players
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Off the back of our spring production, Sense & Sensibility, we can reveal that we sold the highest number of tickets in recent years, beating all other recent productions. This is no slight on the previous plays staged by the Guild over the past few years; it
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We may have just said goodbye to the Spring production and announced audition dates for the Summer Shakespeare, but we have more news… The Windsor Theatre Guild’s Autumn show at the Guildhall will be After the Dance by Terence Rattigan and directed by Adrian Tang. Adrian directs for
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Nature has now sprung into life with the spring equinox and the clocks going forward. And so time and our minds turn to the great outdoors. As I venture back in to my garden after what seems like a long, cold winter, I am reminded that flowers, plants – and
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Sense and Sensibility rehearsals are going really well and the cast are being very creative. Everyone is bringing their own ideas to scenes and the characters are taking shape nicely. It is exciting to see the cast working so hard and fully embracing the era and etiquette, as well as
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For those who aren’t aware, 2019 sees the return of Windsor Theatre Guild’s open-air summer Shakespeare performance. Long-standing members of the Guild will know that this has been a tradition for years, but had to be put on hold for a while, due to our regular venue
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