Common Ground Theatre Company is an amateur theatre group based in Lincoln in the UK. The company was born in April 2001 when eight friends met in the Queen in the West pub in the West End of Lincoln to discuss setting up a new community theatre group in Lincoln.

We felt there was a need in Lincoln for a group which would welcome new members – both experienced actors and beginners – and which would aim to produce thought-provoking, high-quality, challenging drama.

From a standing start in April 2001 we staged a very successful production of Bill Naughton’s play ‘Spring and Port Wine’ in November 2001.

Since then we have staged a range of theatrical productions: dramas such as Waiting for Godot, No Exit and Closer; literary adaptations such as The Turn of the Screw, Great Expectations and Sense and Sensibility; Shakespearean works including Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet; and comedies like The Fisherman’s Wife and The Coarse Acting Show. We have even staged a Victorian music hall evening and the world premiere of a new adaptation of the Jeeves and Wooster stories by PG Wodehouse.

Our roots are in the West End of Lincoln but we have members all over the city and in the surrounding villages. We normally rehearse at the church hall of St Mary le Wigford in Lincoln and we currently stage most of our productions at the Broadbent Theatre in Wickenby. Over the years we’ve also performed at Lincoln Drill Hall, Bishop Greaves Theatre at Bishop Grosseteste University, the Millennium Festival Studio Theatre above
the Central Methodist Church and Croft Street Community Centre.