There is so much to see and do in Stratford upon Avon. Timeout list 17 great things to keep you occupied and there are also a host of National Trust properties to visit in the area.
Stratford Upon Avon Literary Festival
Updated: Jul 23, 2024
RSC Co-Artistic Directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey have announced the autumn/winter 2024/25 productions at the RSC. Three big Shakespeare productions:
Othello 11 Oct - 23 Nov
Twelfth Night 5 Dec - 18 Jan
Hamlet 8 Feb - 29 Mar
The Xmas family production is a new staging of
The Red Shoes 7 Nov - 19 Jan
Finally, by Shakespeare contemporary Christopher Marlowe
Edward II 21 Feb - 5 Apr
and a new play by David Edgar
The New Real 3 Oct - 2 Nov
Throughout the summer The Holloway Garden Theatre is returning to Stratford with an outdoor production of ‘As You Like It’. Performances run from 18 July to 1 September.
Just opened in the main theatre is ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ with favourite Shakespeare character Falstaff at the centre, played wonderfully by John Hodgkinson. It’s a lively, colourful production with lots of very funny moments as the ladies of the town plot against his amorous advances.
Also this summer, the RSC presents a new play ‘Kyoto’ described as a political thriller and Sheridan’s 18th century classic comedy ‘School for Scandal’ promising big wigs and even bigger laughs.
Two more Shakespeare plays feature later in the summer season - ‘an outdoor production of ‘As You Like It’ in the Swan Theatre gardens and the rarely performed ‘Pericles’ with Alfred Enoch in the lead role.
From The Guardian (13/6/2024) - 5 star review
With abounding silliness, this is a comedy so polished it gleams. A summer belter.
At the Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, until 7 September