This is the 34th Wallingford Corn Exchange Drama Festival, one of several festivals in the region where you can see amateur dramatics at its best and hear and learn from a professional adjudicator about acting. Each group is given 1 hour to build their set, perform their play and strike the set. There will be two plays each night and an adjudication at the end. And on the Saturday night the winners and prizes will be announced, including a punters’ prize that audience members can award.

You Never Can Tell is a fast-paced, cleverly plotted social comedy set in an English seaside town at the turn of the 20th century. The play centres around the unconventional Clandon family - feminist author Mrs Clandon and her three outspoken children - who have recently returned to England after years abroad.

When they encounter their long-estranged father by chance, what follows is a riotous tangle of mistaken identities, romantic misunderstandings, and spirited debate about love, class, and modernity.