For more than a century, the School of Arts has been where this city comes to make and watch live performances. Five productions a year, every one of them cast, built, lit and run by people who live here. Come and see what your neighbours have been up to.
The Wagga Wagga School of Arts Community Theatre, known to everyone as SOACT, is a not-for-profit company run by and for the people of this region. Each year we stage five productions, from intimate plays to full musicals, on two stages: our own Basement Theatre and the larger Civic Theatre across town. We are amateur in the proper sense of the word, which comes from the Latin for love. Nobody here does this for a wage. We do it because there is nothing quite like building something with your hands and your friends and then watching a full house lean in. More than [number] productions later, we are still at it, and still glad you came.
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Years on stage
2,194
Production satged
773
Members
5,200
Seats filled each year
SOACT is an incorporated association governed by a committee elected each year by the membership. We take that responsibility seriously: the company belongs to its members, and it is our job to steward its finances, its building and its future so that the curtain keeps going up.
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On stage, behind it, or in the seats, SOACT runs on people who simply turned up one day and said yes. No experience needed, just an interest. Auditions, set building, lighting, costumes, front of house, or a membership that puts you in the thick of it.
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