Shows

'The Bourbons and Other Crackers'

Saturday 28th June. Commemoration Hall, Wadhurst. See the Current Show page for more details!

'End of Year Show'

Summer 2004

Review by Ron Lewis, NODA Representative and Wadhurst Dramatic Club Committee Member

"Congratulations to each and every one of you for providing such a memorable evening of mirth at the Wadhurst Youth Centre.

Every production, however large or small, only succeeds when the cast exudes enthusiasm and the joy of taking part - WytKidz you showed this in BUCKETS!! I am quite certain that every member of your audience was carried along with your vitality.

Can I also congratulate you on your observation of little snippets of "real life". We've seen it, perhaps done it, and thanks to you, we can now laugh at ourselves when we find ourselves doing it!

One thing we must all remember when acting (and this goes for adults as well) when speaking one a "one to one" basis on the stage you are also speaking to the 'ard of 'earing old Grandad sitting right up at the back in the very last row. There is nothing more embarrassing, when in the middle of a "Romantic Love Scene" - dear old Grandad is heard snoring his head off because he can't hear you!

Wadhurst Dramatic Club has produced outstanding performances for the joy of our village for many years, and on the strength of your talents so wonderfully shown to us "oldies" on the 14th July, the Club - thanks to you - will survive. Well done!"

'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

Summer 2003

The main events of the play occur in the woods, so the WYTKidz took to the great outdoors - and set their play in a field! With a hedge as a backdrop and "backstage" tents, the cast did a fantastic job of getting across the chaotic and enormously funny action of this much-loved romantic comedy.

The complicated love triangle... rectangle involves four humans: Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius. They all love and are loved in return, but thanks to the intervention of Puck, the fairy, they begin to argue. Meanwhile, Oberon, King of the fairies, is also quarelling with his wife Titania. He orders Puck to prepare a "love potion" to remedy matters. But Puck is careless and this leads to all sorts of problems as the wrong men love the wrong women and vice versa. Even more amusingly, Oberon puts the potion on Titania's eyelid and the first person she sees when she awakes is Bottom, the tradesman, who has an ass's head (also thanks to Puck).

The cast were fantastic and they made these hilarious scenes even more so... The culmination of the action in Bottom and Co's version of the (unintentionally) uproarious 'Pyramus and Thisbe' became funnier and funnier throughout the run!

'WYT in the Willows'

Summer 2002

Mole develops spring fever and gives up on his house-cleaning to wanders in the fields and meadows. Yes, the first of the WYTKidz forays into the great outdoors was their own re-working of Kenneth Graham's classic. Picture the scene - a field, a marquee, great costumes and a fantastic, entusiastic cast and the scene is set...

Mole finds himself by a river and meetsRat, who invites Mole into his boat, something Mole has never seen before. Suddenly Mole discovers friendships, picnicking, and playing. One of his new found friends, Toad, is locked up for dangerous driving, and has lost his home to the stoats and weasels. So Mole, Ratty and Badger go to Toad Hall to try to help him. Toad escapes from prison and in a fantastic climax the whole cast enacted their battle to regain Toad Hall. This was a great debut and set a very high, and well deserved, standard for future productions.