Enjoy A Summer of Stage, Screen and Festival Fun at Sherwood Forest

It’s another busy summer ahead at RSPB Sherwood Forest with a whole season full of entertainment at the North Nottinghamshire nature reserve.

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Outdoor Theatre in Sherwood Forest

This Is My Theatre return to Sherwood Forest for not one but two stage shows with Robin Hood’s woodland providing the perfect backdrop.

On Thursday 27^th June, they will perform their adaptation of the classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

The company will be back in Edwinstowe on Friday 2^nd August with their take on William Shakespeare’s mystical romance A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Tickets for each performance are priced at £20 for adults and £10 for children (£16 and £8 for RSPB members).

Also coming back to Sherwood Forest in July is a weekend of outdoor cinema, including the film that was destined to be shown in the outlaws’ backyard: Robin Hood – Prince of Thieves.

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Films in the Forest

The Films in the Forest weekend gets underway on Friday 26^th July with The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

On Saturday 27^th July, there will be animated adventure Brave at 1pm, the earth-shaking dino thriller Jurassic Park at 4pm and Prince of Thieves at 7pm.

It concludes on Sunday 28^th July with Disney’s Robin Hood at 12pm and swashbuckling comedy romance The Princess Bride at 3pm.

Tickets for each film are priced at £15 per person (£12.50 RSPB members).

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Robin Hood Festival

The 38^th Robin Hood Festival gets underway on Saturday 3^rd August with the Knights of Nottingham Medieval Jousting Display Team headlining the show in the festival arena.

Their all-action re-telling of the legend of Robin Hood has delighted audiences since the team made their festival debut in 2022.

The festival continues across each weekend in August with Fantasy in the Greenwood, complete with orcs and walking trees, on the 10^th and 11^th August.

Sherwood Forest is part of Nottinghamshire’s only National Nature Reserve (NNR) and there’s a weekend devoted to wildlife awareness and activities on 17^th and 18^th August.

Then, on the August Bank Holiday Weekend (24^th-26^th August), The Sherwood Outlaws deliver their fabulous arena show with dazzling hand-to-hand combat displays and their trademark blend of comedy and drama.

The weekend also includes the Nottinghamshire Day Festival, celebrating much of what makes the county great.

Across the Festival weekends will be a host of other brilliant performers including perennial favourites The Medieval Maniax, storytellers Past Imagined, entertainers Bill Brookman and Nathaniel Bagshot and Tudor history re-enactment troupe The College of Chivalry.

There will also be traders and craftspeople, offering the chance to pick up a unique or unusual gift from a day the at Festival.

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All the information about the Robin Hood Festival, Films in the Forest and This Is My Theatre can be found on our website or at visitsherwood.co.uk. This blog was supplied by RSPB Sherwood Forest and Budby South Forest.