After a very successful run at our home venue ending on 28th March, Wargrave Theatre is very honoured and excited to be moving its production of THE UNFRIEND by Steven Moffat to the Mill at Sonning from 14th to 18th April 2026.
The play is being transferred to the Mill at the invitation the Mill’s Artistic Director, Sally Hughes, after she came to see our highly successful production of ‘A Bunch of Amateurs’ in 2025. It is a fantastic opportunity for WT to perform in a professional environment and showcase our productions and talent to a wider audience, and to help The Mill during their dark period between productions.
The Mill are marketing tickets for these performances through their normal channels, so if you didn’t get to see the show in Wargrave, or you would like to see it again with the same cast but at a different theatre, click here to buy tickets for performances at the Mill at Sonning.
The cast of Wargrave Theatre’s THE UNFRIEND. L to R: Conor Black, Aidan Black, Graham Wheal, Sara Beazley, Ann Roberts (Director), Rhianna Inman, Jo Cole, and Henry Marchant.
This hilarious comedy, which is being directed by Ann Roberts, centres around the Lindel family: while Peter and Debbie are enjoying a cruise – a celebration of twenty years of marriage, and a break from their annoying teenagers, Alex and Rosie – they befriend fellow passenger, Elsa Jean Krakowski, an eccentric American, Trump-loving, widow from Denver, USA. There’s something slightly unsettling in her friendliness and eagerness to stay in touch, but they agree – because no one ever really does, do they?
Back home in the comfort of suburbia a few months later, Elsa suddenly invites herself to stay. As they know nothing about her, Debbie decides to Google her. Too late, they learn the truth about Elsa Jean Krakowski. What kind of deadly danger have they allowed to take up residence in their guest room? How do they protect all that they love from mortal peril? And can they bring themselves to say anything about it? Sometimes, the truth is just too impolite, like Peter’s exchanges with the annoying neighbour from next door who just wants Peter to look at a photograph of the garden wall, and PC Junkin, who appears through the back door – what, or who, does he want?
The Unfriend takes a hilarious and satirical look at middle-class England’s disastrous instinct always to appear nice. The play had a highly successful run at Chichester, before transferring to the West End for a sell-out run with Lee Mack in the leading role.