The Caretaker
by Harold Pinter (Spring 2007)
Classic Pinter themes - isolation, menace, manipulation - combine with moments of genuine, if sometimes dark, humour when a vagrant enters the lives of two very different, but strangely close, brothers. An intense experience for the small cast, the production was acclaimed by small, but highly appreciative, audiences.
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare (Summer 2007)
Staging this production in the Castle Grounds made it easy for audiences to imagine themselves transported to the magical island setting of what was probably Shakespeare's last play. The direction skilfully exploited its combination of romance, tragedy and comedy, its ambiguities and its dramatic effects.
Mountain Language
by Harold Pinter (Autumn 2007)
In place of a performance run at The Electric Theatre this autumn, the Herald Players entered the Woking Drama Festival with a specially prepared production of this hard-hitting examination of how the suppression of a local language can be used as a technique of political oppression.