Welcome to our website, which gives details of our forthcoming production, together with other information that will be of interest to our patrons.
Firstly, we are pleased to welcome a new director to our organisation for this year. joins us with an enviable reputation. He has directed many productions in and around our area, over a number of years, including several Shakespeare plays.
This year's production will be . One of Shakespeare’s late plays, it starts off with all the hallmarks of a tragedy, but ends happily a generation later. Along the way, it offers episodes of high drama and gentle comedy. It is set partly in the court of the king of Sicily, and partly in the home of a poor shepherd community in Bohemia some 15 years later. Come and find out what happens when a king suddenly loses his best friend, his wife, his son and his daughter; when a simple shepherd finds a baby and a casket of jewels abandoned in a storm, and when a prince’s beloved turns out to be a thoroughly unsuitable match!
Jonathan describes it as 'a tale to be told round a campfire on a long winter’s evening'. Hence our setting of a gypsy encampment: we will be performing the play as if by a group of gypsies, complete with costume, music and dance. It promises to be a scintillating spectacle!
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For or further information,
please contact the Box Office on 01285 711 714
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