Devised & performed by Christopher Saul, one of the country’s leading Shakespeare performers with a career spanning 60 years and including numerous productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Globe Theatre.
Join Chris as he takes you on a journey through his career, with backstage tales, funny stories and wonderful theatre gossip all nuanced with beautifully quoted Shakespeare.
If you love theatre, love Shakespeare and would love to hear about one man’s journey through life being followed by the bard, then this is a treat you can’t afford to miss!
Join Jerome as he recounts the hilarious story of his boating holiday along the magnificent River Thames with his two companions and Montmorency the dog. Come and join in the fun as Giles Shenton expertly takes the helm and pilots you through the ridiculous tale of men behaving badly while messing about in boats!
Open-air performance (indoor if wet)
Here we are in Plasticland…there’s rubbish everywhere, and that’s no good! Join Fungi Frida as she travels along the Wood Wide Web to meet a host of mycological superheroes and find the perfect mushroom ally to help us clean up the plastic - she can’t do it without you!
‘Fungi Frida and the Myco Heroes’ is an hour-long, energetic, silly, interactive outdoor performance full of songs, games, clowning, and puppetry for 0-10 year olds and their families all about fungi and how they can help us save the environment!
Open-air performance (indoor if wet)
Here we are in Plasticland…there’s rubbish everywhere, and that’s no good! Join Fungi Frida as she travels along the Wood Wide Web to meet a host of mycological superheroes and find the perfect mushroom ally to help us clean up the plastic - she can’t do it without you!
‘Fungi Frida and the Myco Heroes’ is an hour-long, energetic, silly, interactive outdoor performance full of songs, games, clowning, and puppetry for 0-10 year olds and their families all about fungi and how they can help us save the environment!
Booking details coming soon!
Described as “Downton Abbey with gardening tips”, Old Herbaceous is the humorous love story of a single-minded yet gentle man with a passion for plants and is a charming one man play which has entranced sell-out audiences all around the country over the last five years.
As Old Herbaceous, renowned actor Giles Shenton truly lives the part of the legendary Head Gardener, Herbert Pinnegar, inviting you to feel included in a private chat from a bygone, comforting age. Keeping you engrossed, amused and emotionally engaged from start to finish, Old Herbaceous will leave you with a feeling that, perhaps, all’s right with the world.
Open-air performance (indoor if wet)
Booking details coming soon!
It's 1969 and a woman looks back on her life in London. From the Boer War to The Summer of Love, Flo Smith, daughter, sister, wife, mother, widow and grandmother recalls with horror, humour, tears and joy those turbulent times at home and in the world beyond her front door.
Booking details coming soon!
Devised & performed by Christopher Saul, one of the country’s leading Shakespeare performers with a career spanning 60 years and including numerous productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Globe Theatre.
Join Chris as he takes you on a journey through his career, with backstage tales, funny stories and wonderful theatre gossip all nuanced with beautifully quoted Shakespeare.
If you love theatre, love Shakespeare and would love to hear about one man’s journey through life being followed by the bard, then this is a treat you can’t afford to miss!
Booking details coming soon!
Mark Carey, writer of Into The Breach and What's Wrong with Benny Hill has teamed up with Giles Shenton, producer of Old Herbaceous, Three Men in a Boat, Fagin?, and My Dog's Got No Nose to bring you a spooky thriller set in the same theatre dressing room, during the same play, at the same theatre, but 60 years apart.
During both periods, the theatre is hosting a performance of Hamlet where "time is out of joint."
In this new comedy by Simon Downing we find Falstaff, played by Giles Shenton (Old Herbaceous & Three Men in a Boat) in his bedroom in the Boars Head being nursed by Mistress Quickly.
The creditors arrive demanding payment. Will Falstaff resort to marrying Mistress Quickly in order to pay off his debts? Will he turn teetotal? Will he mellow in his old age? Find out the answers to all these important questions that Shakespeare never bothered to answer and join Falstaff and Mistress Quickly for an evening of jollity, frivolity, a definite lack of coequality and more Shakespearean insults than ever previously heard on a theatrical stage!
Booking details coming soon!
Devised & performed by Christopher Saul, one of the country’s leading Shakespeare performers with a career spanning 60 years and including numerous productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Globe Theatre.
Join Chris as he takes you on a journey through his career, with backstage tales, funny stories and wonderful theatre gossip all nuanced with beautifully quoted Shakespeare.
If you love theatre, love Shakespeare and would love to hear about one man’s journey through life being followed by the bard, then this is a treat you can’t afford to miss!
Booking details coming soon!
Family Christmas fun with amazing magic, seasonal songs and some of the worst Christmas jokes ever to be pulled out of a cracker!
Don't miss the chance to get Christmas off to a flying start!
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