The Nomad Theatre

The story started in 1934 when The Nomads staged their first play, Journey?s End, in the Guildford Borough Hall. From then until 1957, performances were held in local halls and rehearsals took place in various different places ? leading to the name Nomad Players.

In 1957, the society was given some land with a building on it which up till then had been used as a builder?s store and this was converted by the members into a small theatre. In 1980 a wooden hut was bought to house the bar, props store, paint store and wardrobe

By the time the group celebrated its Diamond Jubilee in 1994 it was running a weekly children?s drama workshop ? the Nomes. While the Young Nomads had been active for 20 years. It was also becoming obvious that the old theatre would need replacing and plans were being drawn up, but financing such a project was always going to be a problem. Happily, the National Lottery had just appeared on the scene and Nomad Players Ltd were one of the early applicants.