RADS 1st 2026 entry is Check Please directed by Chloe Reid.

Dating can be hard. Especially when your date happens to be a raging kleptomaniac, or your grandmother's bridge partner, or a mime. Check Please follows a series of blind dinner dates that couldn't get any worse - until they do. Could there possibly be a light at the end of the tunnel?

The cast is as follows:

                                                

Girl: Suzie Merritt

Guy: Cameron Wallace                              

Female Dates: Coral Lincoln                                 

Male Dates: Archie Amery                             

Stage Manager: Alex Caffery                             

RADS 2nd 2026 entry is To be, or not to bother? directed by Anthony Monarch.

To be, or not to bother? is the eighth of the hugely popular Little Grimley series, which follows the antics of a hapless Amateur Dramatic Society desperate for audiences.

This time, the dramatic quartet decide to tackle an evening of Shakespeare, with memorable results. The world’s greatest playwright. The world’s worst amateur dramatic society. What could possibly go wrong?

The cast is as follows:

Gordon: Andrew Spivey

Margaret: Karen Davies

Bernard: Charles Lambert

Joyce: Rachel Hall

Stage Manager: Alex Caffery

Thu 23rd to Sat 25th July and

Wed 29th July to Sat 1st August 2026

Directed by Beki Stevenson

Venue: Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond

Tickets: £16 - £18

(includes £1 Restoration Levy)

by Jonathan Rand

by David Tristram