Here are some of our friends about to embark on their (long) summer outdoor tours with mostly spoken-word productions and reinvented classics, which don’t cross our usual festival listings:
May 8-Sep 15 | MacHamLear / Bad Dad / Sense & Sensibility (Heartbreak Prods)
May 10-Jun 10 | Sense & Sensibility (Open Bar Theatre/Fullers)
May 14-Jul 15 | The Battling Butlers (Bash Street Theatre)
May 19-Sep 16 | As You Like It / Robin Hood (Three Inch Fools)
May 20-Sep 10 | Pride & Prejudice / Twelfth Night / Robin Hood (Illyria)
May 22-Sep 9 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Handlebards)
May 27-Jul 15 | The Battling Butlers (Bash Street Theatre)
May 29,-Sep 3 | Peter Rabbit / Midsummer Night’s Dream / Wind in the Willows (Quantum Theatre)
Jun 1-Sep 3 | Emma / Alice / Comedy of Errors (The Pantaloons)
Jun 5-Sep 1 | Twelfth Night (Duke’s Theatre Co)
Jun 2-Sep 3 | Romeo and Juliet (Lord Chamberlain’s Men)
Jun 7-Jul 7 | Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Squares)
Jun 9-Sep 3 | Secret Garden / Midsummer Night’s Dream / Sense & Sensibility / Importance of Being Earnest (Chapterhouse)
Jun 18-Aug 13 | Much Ado About Nothing (Oddsocks Theatre)
Jun 30-Aug 20 | Love’s Labours Lost / School for Scandal (Changeling Theatre)
Jul 1-Sep 3 | Peter Pan (Slapstick Picnic)
Jul 15-Aug 13 | Nightingale (New Creations Collective)
Jul 20-Aug 20 | Pandora’s Box (The Last Baguette)
Jul 22-Aug 28 | Alice in Wonderland (Sixteenfeet Prods)
Jul 23-Aug 27 | Loki / Sir Gawain (Wild Geese Theatre)
Aug 1-Sep 2 | The Jabberwocky & Other Nonsense (Calf2Cow)