Welcome to CADS - Royston's amateur drama group!

Our last production prior to that was the "Two Short Comedies" show, which consisted of a live performance of Nick Warburton's one-act comedy Don't Blame it on the Boots  - our award-winning entry to the 2023 Welwyn Drama Festival - followed by a screening of the film Seven Movies by Roy Maddox, which won three awards at the 2021 Welwyn Drama Festival, and received glowing praise from adjudicator Walker Ewart! If you missed the film at the festival, you can catch it on YouTube at https://youtu.be/MyL2L04uefA

In 2022, the one-act drama The Blonde Bombshell by local author Roy Maddox, was awarded Best Unpublished Play after it was performed for the very first time at that year's Welwyn Drama Festival. The group came fifth overall in a very strong field of fourteen plays.

Our production in 2021, Strangers on a Film - which won two awards (including Best Individual Performance)  and received three other nominations at that year's Cambridge Festival of Drama - was subsequently recorded for radio and was first broadcast on Royston Radio at 2.00 p.m. on Wednesday 23 August. (It gets repeated from time to time, so do listen out for it!) We also performed it as part of a unique evening's entertainment at the 2021 Royston Arts Festival, and you can listen to it, too, on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/fMVDxa9912Y

We also produced, during lockdown, two versions of our virtual cabaret CADaret!, which we posted on YouTube, one during the 2020 Royston Arts Festival, and one in time for the Christmas period. These were both a mixture of songs, poems, sketches, monologues and general silliness,  recorded on film and edited together for posting. Both are still available; to view them, search for "CADaret" on YouTube, or just click here

We have a varied programme and always welcome new members. Our pantomimes are always child-friendly, focussing on family entertainment (for which we've gained an excellent reputation locally in recent years). Our performers (children and adults) are all local amateurs, yet we all aim for high quality in as many aspects as possible - acting, script, lighting, sound, special effects, and of course our live band...

NEWS - CADS & King James Academy Royston
In March 2024 the Trust that manages KJAR asked CADS to remove the shipping containers that store their scenery, costumes and equipment from the school site. After negotiation and meetings involving the Head Teacher, School Operations Manager, Royston District Councillor Matthew Barnes and members of CADS, an agreement has been reached which will allow the containers to remain in place until Summer 2025. The annual pantomime in January 2025 can therefore take place as normal. We are now actively looking for an alternative performance space in Royston for the pantomime and are staging a smaller production at Icknield Walk First School in November 2024.