The production will run at the theatre from the 29th January until the 6th March 2027.
It has been announced that Watermill Theatre will launch its 60th anniversary celebrations with the return Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s acclaimed comedy that tells the extraordinary true story of a satirical newspaper created in the trenches of the First World War.
Directed by Caroline Leslie the production returns to the Watermill from 29 January to 6 March 2027, ten years after it first premiered at the theatre in 2016. Since that original production, The Wipers Times has enjoyed three successful national tours and two West End runs.
Based on the true story of a newspaper produced by British soldiers on the Western Front, The Wipers Times follows two officers who discover a printing press in a bombed-out building in Ypres – or ‘Wipers’, as the soldiers called it. With enemy shells raining down around them, they set about creating a newspaper for the troops: resolutely cheerful, gloriously subversive and packed with jokes, spoofs and sketches designed to lift the spirits of men facing the horrors of war.
While casting has yet to be announced, the creative team behind the production includes: set and costume design by Dora Schweitzer, with set design recreation by Steve Wilson and Rhoda Wilson, costume design recreation by Juliette Craft, lighting design by James Smith, sound design by Steve Mayo, composition by Nick Green, musical direction by Paul Herbert, movement direction by Emily Holt, associate set design recreation by Eve Wilson and dialect coaching by Elspeth Morrison.
To book tickets visit: https://www.watermill.org.uk/events/wipers