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Open-Air Theatre
Friday 13 June - Friday 25 July 2025
Wollaton Hall & Deer Park
The popular Open-Air Theatre season returns to Wollaton Hall & Deer Park this summer with a programme of new and traditional performances.
You are invited to pack your picnics, camping chairs and blankets to enjoy theatre in the great outdoors!
What's On
Friday 13 June | Gates 5pm, show 6pm
Illyria Theatre Company: The Wind in the Willows
Mole yearns for adventure, Rat adores boats and Badger likes peace and quiet. Into their lives bursts Toad who loves very fast cars and just can’t seem to help getting into trouble. But can the animals reform Toad’s character and evict the squatters from his ancestral home to restore justice to the world? Kenneth Grahame’s perennial classic is brought to the stage in Illyria’s inimitable style.
Thursday 19 June | Gates 6pm, show 7pm
The Lord Chamberlain's Men: Twelfth Night
Orsino, Duke of Illyria, is desperately in love with Countess Olivia. But she, in mourning for her brother, has sworn off all men. Suddenly Viola, separated from her twin brother in a shipwreck and now disguised as a man, enters Orsino’s court as his servant and turns everyone’s world upside down. Sent to woo Olivia on Orsino’s behalf, Viola is stunned to find herself the object of Olivia’s affections and, as Olivia falls in love with Viola, so Viola falls in love with Orsino.
Romantic confusion, mistaken identity, practical jokes and riotous disorder abounds in Shakespeare’s hilarious and lyrical romantic comedy about love, its many and glorious facets, and the mess it can make of us all.
Friday 25 July | Gates 6pm, show 7pm
Three Inch Fools: The Most Perilous Comedie of Elizabeth I
Elizabethan theatre is flourishing. But will a brand-new Tudor musical romp, in which Good Queen Bess takes to the stage herself, be the making of this heroine or spell the beginning of her downfall?
The stage is set for regicidal rivalries, devious dramatics, and plotting playwrights. Beset by misunderstandings and a script that…let’s just say…needs some work, this production promises to be largely historical, always hysterical. As the old saying goes…thy show must go-eth on!
Gates open one hour before the performance starts. Please bring rugs or low-back seating. Performances will go ahead in all but the worst weather. The stage is located in the Formal Gardens at Wollaton Hall & Deer Park:
Plan your visit here: www.wollatonhall.org.uk/visit and see the accessibility page: www.wollatonhall.org.uk/accessibility
Adults: £20
Children (5-16)/NUS students: £14
Family (2 adults, 2 children): £60
The Wind in the Willows (13 June 2025) |
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Twelfth Night (19 June 2025) |
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The Most Perilous Comedie of Elizabeth I (25 July 2025) |
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