Saffron Walden Musical Theatre Company is an award-winning community theatre group which presents popular musicals, operas and light operettas.

Based in Saffron Walden, Essex, the Company presents two shows a year through its adult group and its youth section.

In its history there is hardly a show that SWMTC has not tackled, performing works by all the major musical theatre composers, including Rogers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Lionel Bart and Stephen Sondheim. It has also presented the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan, Franz Lehár and Johann Strauss II.

Adult members of the Company put on a show annually in the spring. Our Youth Group performs in the autumn each year and features performers who range from 11 through to 18. These productions take place in Saffron Walden Town Hall.

Over the years the Company has won many awards. Most recently our 2022 production of Kinky Boots won best Musical in District 7 in the 2022 NODA East Awards. In addition, the 2021 Youth Group production of The Wind in the Willows won Best Youth Production, Best Technical Production, Best Poster and Best Overall Production in District 7 in the 2020/21 NODA East Awards. Going back a few years, our 2020 production of My Fair Lady won best Musical and the 2019 Youth Group production of Barnum won best Youth Production. In our 2018 production of 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' was named by NODA as 'Best Musical’, ‘Best Technical Production’ and best ‘Overall Production in District 7.

SWMTC is proud of the professionalism of its musicals and we often employ professional directors, musicians and choreographers to ensure that our shows are of the highest standards .

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The Company was formed in 1922 as Saffron Walden Amateur Operatic Society. In 2007 it changed its name to Saffron Walden Musical Theatre Company.

Its Youth Group has been presenting shows since 1976.

We are a welcoming society that encourages involvement from anyone, young or old, who would like to be involved in putting on shows, whether as a performer, technician or part of the back stage team. Our commitment has ensured that many of our young performers have moved on to drama schools and work in the professional theatre.