Our first night at Gawsworth Hall was a huge success and here are a few images from last night’s show. There are still some tickets left so please come and have a fabulous evening. Don’t miss out! Tickets selling now for covered grandstand at this beautiful venue. Telephone 01260 223456.

Our performances at Gawsworth Hall in Cheshire will be one of the highlights of this year’s tour and one we recommend travelling to. The British Shakespeare Company are delighted to have been invited to perform at one of the most beautiful and fitting settings one could image for open-air theatre, the Gawsworth Hall Shakespeare Festival 1st – 5th July 2009. Gawsworth Hall is a charming Tudor manor and was home to Mary Fitton who has been put forward as the Dark Lady of the Shakespeare’s Sonnets. We will perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing at this idyllic and stunning setting. There is a covered grandstand for the audience and the garden and house create the perfect backdrop. See what’s on for more details and booking. Please comment.

UPDATE: After out first three shows in Norway all tickets for the rest of our two week run at the Ramme Shakespeare Festival were sold out! Sorry if you missed out.

Tonight is Midsummer’s Night in Norway and it will remain light all through the night, and highly appropriate that we perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The shows in Norway are excellent and we will be creating a gallery of photographs from Dublin and Norway in the next few days. To give you a flavour…the top photo is Steven Blakeley as Puck, and Kare Conradi and Daniela Lavender. Photographs by Martin Nesheim.

We are delighted to announce that we will be performing at Kentwell Hall in Suffolk from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th July 2009. We will be performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing in the beautiful gardens.

UPDATE: TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE. Telephone 01787 310 207 or full details - click here. Please book early as several venues have sold out.

Tickets for the Leeds Shakespeare Festival are now on sale through Leeds Grand Theatre box office on New Briggate, also online at www.leedsgrandtheatre.com or by telephone on 0844 848 2701. Full details are on the Leeds Shakespeare Festival booking information page.

Please tell your friends and work colleagues and help make the 14th Leeds Shakespeare Festival a real success!

UPDATE: Tickets are also available from Leeds Visitor Centre at Leeds City Railway Station. Telephone: +44 (0)113 2425242.

The British Shakespeare Company are proud to be the international guest company for the Prague Shakespeare Festival at the Prague Castle in the Czech Republic - Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd August 2009. For full details - click here.

UPDATE: Today the world saw Prague Castle as it played host to an historic speech by President Obama. This summer it will be Shakespeare’s speeches that will ring out around this stunning building. How wonderful!

We are delighted to be returning to Arundel Castle for 3 nights in 2009. We will perform Much Ado About Nothing on thursday 27th & friday 28th August, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream on saturday 29th August.

Sir David Frost described last year’s show as “Crisp, clear, outstanding. A wonderful show. A great performance.”

Update: Tickets for Arundel are now on sale and as last year sold out we advice you to book now. Telephone 01903 882173 or in person at the Mill Road Gate entrance.

See Reviews and show photos. Photo: Darryl Curcher

We are delighted to announce we will be working with Sheffield Council to create the 1st Sheffield Shakespeare Festival at the beautiful Sheffield Botanical Gardens on the 17th to 19th August. Although this will only be a 3 day event in the first year we have high hopes that this will be a major venue for a longer festival in our Artistic Directors home county of Yorkshire. Tickets will go on sale Monday 29th June - see booking information click here.

We are delighted to announce that Sterts Theatre in Cornwall will play host to the British Shakespeare Company on the 24^th and 25^th August 2009. This is a beautiful purpose built and covered open air venue in a very beautiful part of the world. This will be our first visit to Cornwall so this is not to be missed and we will perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the 24^th and Much Ado About Nothing on the 25^th. See what’s on for more details. Tickets are now on sale online or telephone 01579 362382 or 01579 362962.

The brilliant Norwegian actor Kare Conradi will join our cast in important cameo roles for our Norwegian run at Ramme Gaard. He is a fantastic Shakespearian actor having trained in the UK at the prestigious LAMDA. By this addition to the cast in Norway we hope the festival will begin to become a bridge between our two nations exploring the relationship Shakespeare has with actors in Norway and creating a truly unique partnership sharing our mutual love of the Bard.

We will also be welcoming three other Norwegians into our cast to play Moth, Mustardseed and the Indian boy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.