Play Reading
| Convenor | Contact | Meetings | Status |
| Richard Brett | PlayReading | 1st Thursday morning of the month | Full |
At the Play-Reading Group we read plays aloud, generally taking one part each. We also discuss the plays that we read.
Our meetings are held roughly once a month, usually at 10 am on a Thursday morning in a member's house. They last for around two and a half hours.
There is a nominal charge to cover the cost of hiring a set of scripts for the plays that we choose.
We welcome enquiries from new members who would like to join the group. However, the group is at present full so it may become necessary to form a second group.
The plays we have read in 2024
| Simon Brett | Murder in Play |
| David Summer | A Convenient Murder |
| Michael Palin | The Weekend |
The plays we read in 2023
| Ian Hislop & Nick Newman | A Bunch of Amateurs |
| Bettine Manktelow | Spygame |
| Oscar Wilde | Lady Windermere's Fan |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Round and Round the Garden |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Living Together |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Table Manners |
| Frank Vickery | Trivial Pursuits |
The plays we read in 2022
| Shelagh Stephenson | Ancient Lights |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Man of the Moment |
| Phyllis Nagy | The Talented Mr Ripley |
| Charlotte Hastings | The Wayward Spirit |
| Noel Coward | Hay Fever |
| Simon Williams | Laying the Ghost |
| Rae Shirley | Merry Regiment of Women |
| Brian Friel | Dancing at Lughnasa |
| Charlotte Jones | In Flame |
| Murder Mystery Evening | |
The plays we read in 2021
| J.B. Priestley | They Came to a City |
| Anton Chekhov | The Cherry Orchard |
| David Hare | Racing Demon |
| Tennessee Williams | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Agatha Christie | Cards on the Table |
| Woody Allen | Play It Again, Sam |
| Norman Robbins | A Tomb With a View |
| Emlyn Williams | A Murder Has Been Arranged |
| Alan Ayckbourn | House |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Garden |
| Bettine Manktelow | Murder Weekend |
| Michael Palin | The Weekend |
The plays we read in 2020
| Alan Bennett | Habeas Corpus |
| J.B. Priestley | An Inspector Calls |
| Colin Calvert | Building Bridges |
| Angela Lanyon | Death on Dartmoor |
| Robert Brown | Beware of the Agapanthus |
| Martin Claire | The Great Mallard |
| Geoff Bamber | Reading Between the Lines |
| Oscar Wilde | An Ideal Husband |
| John Galsworthy | Joy |
| Paul Howard Surridge | The Brother's Wife |
| Oscar Wilde | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| Henry James (adapted) | The Turn of the Screw |
| Ian Hislop and Nick Newman | A Bunch of Amateurs |
| Terence Rattigan | While the Sun Shines |
The plays we read in 2019
| Rick Abbott | Play On! |
| Hugh Whitemore | Breaking the Code |
| Tudor Gates | Ladies Who Lunch |
| Patricia Highsmith | The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Way Upstream |
| Charlotte Hastings | The Wayward Spirit |
| J. B. Priestley | An Inspector Calls |
| David Summers | A Convenient Murder |
The plays we read in 2018
| J. B. Priestley | Time and the Conways |
| Peter Gordon | Murdered to Death |
| Bettine Manktelow | Death Walked In |
| Penny Gold | The President's Holiday |
| Noel Coward | This Happy Breed |
| Noel Coward | I'll leave it to you |
| Brian Friel | Dancing at Lughnasa |
| Terence Rattigan | Love in Idleness |
| John Chapman | Kindly Leave the Stage |
The plays we read in 2017
| Bettine Manktelow | Curtain up on Murder |
| Michael Palin | The Weekend |
| Agatha Christie | A Murder is Announced |
| Woody Allen | Play It Again, Sam |
| Norman Robbins | A Tomb with a View |
| Norman Robbins | Prepare to Meet Thy Tomb |
| Simon Moss | The Merry Widower |
| Bettine Manktelow | Spygame |
| Alan Bennett | Habeas Corpus |
The plays we read in 2015-16
| Alan Bennett | Getting On |
| Oscar Wilde | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Neighbourhood Watch |
| N. Richard Nash | The Rainmaker |
| Noel Coward | Present Laughter |
| Charlotte Jones | In Flame |
| Ray Cooney | Funny Money |
| Francis Durbridge | Sweet Revenge |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Improbable Fiction |
| Leslie Sands | Cat’s Cradle |
| Bettine Manktelow | Murder Weekend |
| Kate Atkinson | Abandonment |
| Bill Naughton | Spring and Port Wine |
