Outside Music and Theatre Events: Summer 2010
1066 Country has a wide range of events for all the family to enjoy.
June
Saturday 12 June: CAMRA Real Ale and Cider Festival
Taking place at Tenterden station the annual festival, in partnership with the Ashford, Folkestone and Romney Marsh branches of CAMRA, The Campaign for Real Ale, promises to be a great event at Kent and East Sussex Railway. Visitors can indulge in a diverse range of some of the finest Ale, Cider and Perry around supplemented by a selection of delicious food from a BBQ or the stations licensed refreshment rooms. The festival will get into full swing from midday with the first of four exciting bands performing live on a purpose-built stage that spans the railway track!
This great British tradition is the perfect way to celebrate England's first World Cup match and visitors need not worry about missing kick off, as there will be a giant TV screening of the England v USA game on Saturday at 7.30pm.
July
Friday 02 and Saturday 03 July: Hastings Beer and Music Festival
This ever popular festival, celebrating local beverages and live music takes place in Alexandra Park.
Saturday 03 July and Sunday 04 July: The Comedy of Errors
Performed on an Elizabethan-inspired stage at Hertsmonceux Castle, a small troupe of travelling players breathe new life into this delightfully anarchic play.
15 July: The Importance of Being Earnest
Theatreworks presents Oscar wilde's classic comedy at Hertsmonceux Castle
Telephone: 01323 834479.
Saturday 17 July: Illyria presents Pride and Prejudice
Bodiam Castle is the setting for this classic story. In a social whirlwind of balls, dinners and very eligible officers, Lizzie Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy stand alone as the only sane 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 their mutual happiness?
Saturday 17 July to Sunday 15 August: Summer Spectacular Festival
The Festival takes place when the gardens at Merriments are at their peak with glorious summer colour every where you look. Sculptures will also feature in the gardens during the festival.
Saturday 17 July: The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Festival will start with a Shakespeare Production of The Merry Wives of Windsor with a performance by The Hazlitt Arts Centre.
The scheming Sir John Falstaff attempts to seduce not one, but two married women; but his plans backfire hilariously in Shakespeare's comic farce set in the idyllic surroundings of Merriments Gardens. Sparks fly as Mistress Page and Mistress Ford plan their riotous revenge.
24 July: Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing performed by The Pantaloons at Bodiam Castle. Love and deception are the themes of this exuberant and highly entertaining production.
Booking essential: 0844 2491895
31 July: Romeo and Juliet
Bodiam Castle plays host to multi award winning Illyria, who present Shakespeare's explosive, swash-buckling romance that tells of young love, doomed from the outset as family feuds lead to a chain of events with a devastating conclusion.
Booking essential: 0844 2491895
August
Friday 20 August: The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners, morals and morality. When two Victorian gentlemen assume the name of 'Earnest' to win the affections of two ladies, both determined to marry a man of that name, the scene is set for hilarious confusion in a world of handbags, perambulators, cucumber sandwiches, muffins, butlers, the upper classes and, of course, that theatrical tour de force - Lady Bracknell!
The performance will take place in the garden of Cleveland House in Winchelsea
Telephone: 08444 771000 to book by credit or debit card
e-Mail: will@winchelsea.net
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