LATEST NEWS:
(updated 5.7,25)
KASJOG
Come and Sing
The Pirates of Penzance
Sunday 14 September We will rehearse for a semi-staged, concert performance at 4pm, with audience welcome,
The day will run from 10 to 6:30 at the Lancaster Hall, Send and be led by Dick Stockton.
Tickets for taking part now available!
Register here
More information here
KASJOG
Show for 2026
We are working hard to bring you news of our 2026 show!
We can tell you it will be at The Cecil Hepworth Playhouse, Walton-on-Thames from 22nd to 28th February 2026.
The show is likely to La Vie Parisienne, but we have a few matters to clarify before confirming this.
Audition and Launch Event will be in October 2025.
Look out for more news soon!
My Fair Lady
NODA Review
We did It!
"This KASJOG production was, quite simply, a delight from start to finish, with great direction from James Palmer and a superb team effort from his fabulous cast!"
"This was an absolutely first class production, with perfect casting of Jenny Jordan as Eliza Doolittle and Keith Kimnell as Professor Henry Higgins, without such perfect principals I imagine My Fair Lady would not hit the spot."
Read the full review here
KASJOG
KNAPHILL AND ST JOHNS OPERATIC GROUP
We are an amateur light operatic group with members from all walks of life from the Woking, Surrey, area.
GET INVOLVED!
We are always happy to hear from new on stage and off stage members wanting to join us. Can you sing? Can you act? Do you want to be on stage? Do you want to help with scenery, props and everything backstage? Send us an email We'd love to hear from you!
Read more about us below.
KASJOG is a member of NODA (National Operatic and Dramatic Association)
KASJOG is a Registered Charity: Charity Number 1047524
RECENT SHOWS
The Gondoliers
2024
Stage Director: Peter Melville
Musical Director: David Chapman
Our 2024 show was another popular Gilbert & Sullivan opera The Gondoliers.
Show pictures can be seen here
We all had a good time with quite a few laughs at the topical amendments to the original script.
"Director Peter Melville had tweaked the lyrics to some of the songs to bring them very amusingly up to date." NODA
Summer Variety Show
2024
THE 2024 SHOW WAS A SELL OUT!
It was a wonderful evening and we all enjoyed ourselves - performers and audience.
"KASJOG at its best!"
"Fantastic evening - you're all very talented."
"Wonderful!"
"Really good show - when is the next one?"
Next years show:
30th & 31st May 2025
at the Lancaster Hall, Send.
My Fair Lady
2025
Stage Director: James Palmer
Musical Director: Mark Turvill
The 2025 show ended on 8th March to full houses, rapturous applause, and delighted audiences. We are pleased with the new venue and we have received brilliant reviews:
"The production illustrated the broad range of talent available to the creative team who weaved their magic to ensure polished performances" NODA
News of the 2026 show will follow soon.
If you can't wait, come to our 2nd Summer Variety Show on 30th & 31st May. Details here.
THE KASJOG STORY
Knaphill and St Johns Operatic Group (KASJOG for short!) started life as an Adult Education evening class at The Winston Churchill School, St Johns, way back in 1968. Our first (and favourite) production was Gilbert & Sullivan’s Trial By Jury.
In 1994, after having separated from Adult Education, KASJOG became a registered charity which coincided with a decision to move to the Rhoda McGaw Theatre, a huge step-up in terms of the scope of technical and production opportunities. It was also decided that the repertoire would extend to include light opera and so a process of alternating Gilbert & Sullivan’s works with operas such as Die Fledermaus, Orpheus in the Underworld and The Merry Widow (our first production at the Rhoda McGaw Theatre) began. In 2025 our main show moved away from Woking to the Cecil Hepworth Playhouse in Walton-on-Thames. We now have two shows a year, the second being a Summer Variety Show, first held in 2024, and another is planned for 30/31st May 2025.
KASJOG’s mantra is to entertain in as professional a manner as possible, but to have fun at the same time. Each show brings its own possibilities and challenges and there is no shortage of anecdotes about missed entrances, forgotten lines, misplaced props, un-cooperative scenery and high jinks in the lighting box! However, the cast and crew are always ready to accept a challenge, the biggest of which has been our production of Carmen and for which we won a coveted NODA Award of Excellence. Another challenging production was our first musical, Brigadoon, which required Scottish and American accents, a sword dance and 11 scene changes in two acts.
KASJOGGERS
“Kasjoggers” come from all walks of life and cover a wide age range. We are like one big happy family, with all the differing personalities and characters you would expect, with the one thing in common: a love of singing (and dressing up in funny clothes, putting on make up and dancing about the place, not to mention going to the pub afterwards or sharing a joke, a cup of tea and a biscuit during a break in rehearsals!).
Rehearsals
KASJOG rehearses at the Maybury Centre in Woking on Mondays and Thursdays at 8pm. Membership is not confined to residents of Knaphill and St Johns: some of the cast come from as far afield as Leatherhead and Kingston.
Monday Meet Up
From April on the first Monday of each month, members can be found at a local pub, keeping their ‘spirits’ up until the next production begins rehearsal at the beginning of October!