EVENTS

As You Like It, March 27^th through to April 5^th.  

Main house production. 

Directed by Chris Bealey, who gave us last season’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Steampunk style, and set in the Summer of Love of 1967. Take a trip from the stifling court into the depths of the forest where conventions – and costumes – are cast off, and the trees cloak reality. As You Like It has all the elements of Shakespeare’s great comedies: cross-dressing, unrequited love, an evil Duke taking the place of a banished one, brothers locked in combat, and, of course, a philosophical Fool. The cast’s antics are infused with music and song, rousing the Sixties’ spirit.

Next the Mad Red Theatre School take to the stage on April 7^th, with their production of Hamlet. The Undiscover’d Country, directed by Rebecca Chapman. First produced as part the Hostry Festival in October 2013, the Maddermarket’s education department, Mad Red, perform an abridged version of Hamlet’s journey to that ‘undiscover’d country from whose bourn no traveller returns’.

On 8^th April, the Norwich Players and friends will be entertaining us with a Shakespearian variety show: Shakespeare’s Greatest Bits. An evening of the best songs, sonnets and speeches from the world’s greatest wordsmith performed on our world famous Elizabethan style stage. Delight in this exceptional anthology of Shakespearean humour, music, love and hate performed by an ensemble of our most talented performers. 

Sing along to popular covers inspired by the Bard such as Kiss Me Kate and West Side Story.

For those who prefer the outdoors, on Sunday 12^th April we premier our Sonnet Walks: Strolling With Shakespeare. Enjoy a walk around historic Norwich and hear some of Shakespeare's sonnets performed in the open air by members of the Norwich Players. Each walk takes about an hour and ‘strollers’ depart every fifteen minutes from the theatre.

So whether you enjoy your Shakespeare stripped back and simple, with a modern twist, or in unexpected places there will be something in the programme of events to inspire you to join us in celebrating the birthday of the great man and all his amazing legacy.