Lyneham Stage Club

Lyneham Stage Club is the theatre club of RAF Lyneham. There has been a theatre club at RAF Lyneham for over 45 years, even before a theatre was built!

Today the Club is a mix of service and civilian personnel, dependents and local folk and provides entertainment for the Station and the local area. Our company includes actors and actresses, stage crew, light and sound technicians, set builders, and Front of House staff, all are volunteers - doing it for the love of theatre.

We are blessed with the superb facilities of the Juliana Goss Theatre, here at RAF Lyneham, probably one of the best theatre buildings in the Royal Air Force.

We aim to produce three productions a year; The Pantomime in January, a set of short plays in May, and a full length play in the autumn.

Please see our contact page if you would like to ask about joining the club - no experience is required.

 

Why the ‘Juliana Goss Theatre’?

Juliana Goss was a keen and talented actress, director and producer who arrived at RAF Lyneham when her husband Ken was posted here in 1963. She joined the existing club which had no premises, and wasted no time spearheading a plan to convert the Salvation Army canteen building into a theatre. The Little theatre opened in 1964. Juliana was not content though, and continued to badger successive Station Commanders for a purpose built theatre. It worked, and construction began late in 1967. The imaginatively named New Theatre opened on March 5th 1969, with a production of the play ‘Tom Jones’.

On October 2nd 1977 Juliana died. A few weeks earlier she had agreed to plans to rename the Theatre after her, and it has been known as the Juliana Goss theatre ever since.