Open Stage 2024

Come and enjoy free outdoor weekend performances, workshops and stories on the Garden Theatre stage this summer.

We invited groups from across the UK to see what they’d like to create on our stage. See the full programme below, running on The Holloway Garden Theatre stage on weekends from Saturday 20 July to Sunday 1 September.

All events and performances are free to attend, but you'll need to book.

A limited number of on the day tickets will be available from the Box Office, 30 minutes before each performance. 

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Open Stage performance schedule

All performances take place in The Holloway Garden Theatre and are suitable for all ages, unless otherwise stated.

 

 

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Sunday 25 August 

Actors in Search of a Bard by THE KING’S TROUPE 

12 midday and 2pm, approx. 60 minutes
Hamlet steps into A Midsummer Night’s Dream together with Juliet; Falstaff encounters the three witches from Macbeth in the Boar’s Head Tavern, Malvolio and Julius Caesar find themselves together in the Forest of Arden. The possibilities are endless! We invite you to join the absurdity and step into it with us, as we playfully explore this theatrical challenge through music, song, dance and more.  

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The King’s Troupe are an intergenerational community theatre group that specialises in the performance of Shakespeare. Based in Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire, they have been performing since 2010. They have no audition process and offer an inclusive welcome to all. 

 

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Saturday 31 August

All the Worlds by COTSWOLD PLAYERS

12 midday and 2pm, approx. 60 minutes 
Through a unique mix of Shakespeare’s characters, new writing and song, Costwold Players will take you on life’s extraordinary journey, based on Shakespeare’s famous speech ‘All the world’s a stage’, from As You Like It. A light-hearted, fun, fast and at times poignant piece, created collaboratively by the whole company.

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The Cotswold Players is an amateur theatre group based at The Cotswold Playhouse, Stroud, which is funded, run and maintained by volunteers. They perform five productions a year at the Playhouse which also hosts a wide range of visiting theatre companies and community activities.

 

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Sunday 1 September 

William Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Queered: An Open Rehearsal by PELÉ ROCKET 

12 midday and 2pm, approx. 60 minutes 
Bouncing off the text of this late and lesser-known Shakespeare play, an amateur cast explores scenes from Cymbeline through the lenses of queer life in all its joy and messiness, found family, and forgiveness. Audiences are invited to share the wonder of distilling possibly the wildest of Shakespeare's work into something simple, beautiful, and completely current for our times.

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Mikaela Moody, a queer, trans, disabled and Disfigured musician and aspiring theatre director, has created this collaboration with Red Wade especially for Open Stage after performing as part of the RSC’s 2023 production of Julius Caesar in the Community Chorus and wants to make art that celebrates life.

The Holloway Garden Theatre is generously supported by Charles Holloway OBE.

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