• Brief Encounter: Watermill Theatre Reviews (Thu 14 Oct to Sat 13 Nov).
• Saturday, Sunday, Monday: The Kenton Theatre (Wed 20 Oct to Sat 23 Oct).
• Dustbin Doris: Arlington Arts Centre (Mon 25 Oct).
• Tokyo Rose: Corn Exchange (Tue 26 Oct to Wed 27 Oct).
• All Shook Up: Abingdon Operatic Society (Tue 26 Oct to Sat 30 Oct).
• Our Country's Good: Oxford Theatre Guild (Mon 1 Nov to Sat 6 Nov).

The annual Aldermaston York Nativity Play is back after missing a year in 2020 because of Covid. It's an adaptation of 8 or 9 plays from the 400-year-old York Mystery Cycle plays that tell the story of the first Christmas. We've published the Newbury Weekly News reviews of the play every year since 2000 - you can see them here. The cast comes from Aldermaston and surrounding villages, and many of them have played the same part for years. It's a magical setting in the church of St Mary the Virgin and tickets - available from October - are free from https://aldermastonnativity.co.uk/tickets. Performance dates are 2nd to 5th December.

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Faringdon Dramatic Society's next production is Ladies' Day from 11th to 13th November. An exuberant comedy about four likely lasses from the Hull fish docks on a day trip to the races. Work, love and life are just one long, hard slog for the fish-filleting foursome. But their fortunes are set to change when Linda finds tickets to Ladies’ Day at Royal Ascot the year it relocated to York.

Compton Players return to the stage with Evil Will Come from 18th 20th November. London, 1947. Philip Mackinder is dead. His wife has shot him. In this homage to Agatha Christie, a court hears the evidence, and we see the events leading up to the fateful night. What could have driven a respectable pillar of the community to commit such an evil act?

New Era's next production is Lloyd George Knew My Father from 18th to 27th November. Lord Boothroyd and Lady Boothroyd are the proud owners of Boothroyd Hall which has been in the family for three hundred years. When she learns that a bypass will cut through the Boothroyd land, she decides to take matters into her own hands and threatens to “do herself in when the first sod is turned”.

Jigsaw Stage Productions are bringing The Sound of Music to Wantage (24th to 27th November) and Didcot (2nd to 4th December). The tale of the the world-famous singing von Trapp family.

AmEgos' next production is Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park from 1st to 4th December. Springtime in New York City. After their honeymoon, newlyweds Paul and Corrie move into their Manhattan apartment. She’s determined to create a romantic home, despite bare walls, bad plumbing, eccentric neighbours and a hole in their skylight but when Corrie’s mother arrives things begin to unravel.