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Season 3 – Summer 2025
Once you have booked your event below please click on the Plan Your Visit button below for guidance on the day and check out the menu to make your visit even more memorable. The venue opens an hour and a half before the performance starts to order drinks, food and get comfortable.
Ilyria Theatre Company
Pride & Prejudice
22 June 2025
14h30-17h00 Gates open from 13h00
Join us as we celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday! In a whirlwind of balls, dinners and very eligible officers, Lizzy Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy stand alone as the only sane, thoughtful people – and they hate each other! Or do they? Can she see beyond his pride, and can he overcome her prejudice, in order to achieve happiness? If your idea of Jane Austen is stuffy costume drama then this sparkling adaptation is guaranteed to change your mind. Bring your friends and family and have a ball as the irrepressible Illyria sharpen their claws to bring you Jane Austen at her vibrant, bitchy best!
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Sweet Sorrow Theatre Company
Much Ado About Nothing
08 September 2024
Start time 14h30
War is over. Claudio and Hero fall in love, bells toll. Benedick and Beatrice reunite, mischief ensues. Don Jon wants revenge.
Featuring hysterical eavesdropping, a raucous dance party, and disastrous deception – join our lovers as they discover who gets their comeuppance and who gets their happily ever afters.
Wychavon Outdoor Cinema
Top Gun: Maverick – PG12A
01 September 2024
Start time 20h00
Set 30 years after its predecessor, it follows Maverick’s return to the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program (also known as U.S. Navy-Fighter Weapons School – “TOPGUN”), where he must confront his past as he trains a group of younger pilots, among them the son of Maverick’s deceased best friend Lieutenant Nick “Goose” Bradshaw, USN.
Tickets must be booked using the link provided. No one will be allowed access to the event without a ticket.
Doors open at 18h30 for pre-movie drinks and food and to watch the stunning sunset! If the weather is unsuitable for the inflatable screen, the show will need to be cancelled. Keep an eye out here for updates if the weather looks ominous. An email will be sent if the event is cancelled.
Ilyria Theatre Company
Romeo and Juliet
18 August 2024
Start time 15h30
The Montagues and the Capulets are at war. Their feud has been long and bitter. But when Romeo, Montague’s son, gatecrashes Capulet’s party in disguise, everything changes. There he meets Juliet, Capulet’s daughter, and the pair fall into an intense, forbidden love that sets in motion a chain of events leading to a devastating conclusion.
From a secret rendezvous to a fateful duel, Shakespeare masterfully explores the enduring power of love, revenge and fate. But the surprising thing about this iconic tale is that it’s extremely funny too! A passionate, poetic and utterly gripping performance by Illyria in the great outdoors.
Boxtree Productions
The Wind in the Willows
7 July 2024
Start time 14h30
When Mole gets fed up of cleaning her home she decides to leave her burrow and head out on adventure! She meets Ratty and Toad and Badger and discovers a love of the river and the joy of the open road. However, that egocentric Toad is convinced to steal a car by those meddling weasels! Toad is arrested and the Weasels take over Toad Hall to turn it into a theatre for their own amusement! It falls to Mole and Ratty, Badger and Toad to take back Toad Hall! Will they do it?
Join Boxtree Productions on the riverbank this summer to find out, as they celebrate their 10 year anniversary with a performance of Kenneth Grahame’s beloved story! Featuring hilarious comedy, magic and fantastic toe-tapping songs be sure of an evening of wonderful open-air theatre that the whole family will enjoy.
GLADS
A Midsummer Day’s Sportsday
30 June 2024
Start time 14h30
GLADS is the Greater Lenches Amateur Dramatic Society. Running shows by the local community for the area for almost 20 years.
It’s the finals of the International Village Sports Day Competition. It’s also midsummer’s day. This is a tale almost as old as Shakespeare’s own.
Two great rivals of the Village Sports Day coaching world go head to head with their teams. Coach Pond’s mixed doubles team is under threat as the athlete, Mia, has been told by her dad that she has to wang wellies with Demitri for Coach Tinkler. Coach Tinkler’s mixed doubles team is under threat as Zander cooks up a plan for Mia to run away with him. This leaves Zander’s teammate, Ella, pining for the naughty boy Demitri to partner her in the wheelbarrow race. But don’t worry, Coach Pond will rely upon his trusty water carrier to deliver his special “Cupid’s sports drink” to the right people that will sort everything out.
Meanwhile, Pond’s merry band of very sporting athletes go head to head with Tinkler’s very competitive squad in high octane village sports. Who will win the Tombola Draw? Who will come out on top after the Tug of War? Will Coach Pond and Coach Tinkler ever see eye to eye?
We’re very excited for GLADS first open air performance. We hope you’ll join us for an afternoon of suspenseful sporting competition, passionate rivalries, and family friendly silliness!
Running time (approx): 2hrs (inc 20 minute interval)
Suitable for ages 5+ (younger children also welcome!)
Please note there will be no food or drinks available to buy at this event. You are welcome to bring your own.
Ilyria Theatre Company
Doctor Dolittle
16 June 2024
Start time 14h30
Doctor Dolittle leads a simple life as the village doctor in sleepy Puddleby-On-The-Marsh. He often undercharges his patients, or even treats them for free, so he is terribly poor. But one day, with the help of his wise old parrot Polynesia, he makes an extraordinary discovery: that he can talk to animals.
As news of his talent as an animal doctor spreads, animals across the world send messages asking for his help. So he borrows a leaky old ship and embarks on a thrilling quest to cure illness, spread kindness, and better understand animals everywhere. He is joined on his adventures by a loyal animal crew: Jip (a dog), Chee-Chee (a monkey), Dab Dab (a duck), and Gub Gub (an ever-hungry, cake-loving pig) –who together may even help him fix his money problems once and for all!
Hugh Lofting’s timeless classic celebrates the power of empathy and inspires audiences young and old to see the world through the eyes of animals. This funny, exciting family musical is performed with flair and wit by Illyria in the great outdoors.
Running time (approx): 1hr 10mins (inc 20 minute interval)
Suitable for ages 5+ (younger children also welcome!)
Ilyria Theatre Company
Robin Hood
From the earliest ballads of Robin Hood, some pre-dating Chaucer, Illyria has created a fast-moving, fun-packed family show.
While good King Richard is away fighting the crusades, his friend Robert Fitzooth, under the assumed name of Robin Hood, resolves to relieve corrupt landowners of their wealth, to ruin the inept Sheriff of Nottingham and to do all he can to prevent the power-mad Prince John from seizing the throne.
Featuring tales of camaraderie, good against evil, swashbuckling action and riotous comedy, this remains one of Illyria’s most popular ever titles. You’ll definitely laugh, you’ll probably cry – and if you’re not cheering at the archery competition involving the entire audience then you must be dead. We also guarantee you will learn new uses for the phrase “Don’t Do This At Home.”
Running time (approx): 1hr 50mins (inc 20 minute interval)
Suitable for ages 5+ (younger children also welcome!)
Rain or Shine Theatre Company
Shakespeare’s – The Comedy of Errors
Once upon a time, cruel fate decreed that a family should be torn asunder in a violent shipwreck. The mother lost to the waves, the father and one twin and his bondsman one way, and the other twin and his bondsman another…
Years later, in search of their lost family, Antipholus and his bondsman, Dromio, arrive in the port of Ephesus, a city reputedly full of rogues, cheats and sorcerers. Although this is their first visit, merchants greet them as acquaintances, women pursue them as lovers, and everybody knows their names!
Pack your bubbly, chairs and picnics and witness the comical confusion and chaotic capers of Shakespeare’s hilarious masterpiece!