Chapterhouse Theatre Company has two open-air shows in the Midlands this week, Laura Turner’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice at Chatsworth, Derbyshire—said to be the inspiration for the fictional country estate Pemberley, owned by Mr Darcy—on Thursday and Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows at Ashby Castle, Leicestershire on Saturday.
As part of Nottingham’s outdoor theatre season, Cambridge Touring Theatre visits Wollaton Hall with Treasure Island on Thursday and Friday.
Two versions of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew can be seen in the Midlands this week: Madcap Productions presents the play at Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire on Saturday while an all-women cast from Shakespeare’s Globe will be performing outdoors on a traditional, Elizabethan-style booth stage in the Pavilion Gardens, Buxton on Saturday and Sunday.
A new play about King Richard III called R-3: Hunchback or Hero? continues in the Mayor’s Parlour at Leicester’s Guildhall until Sunday.
The touring production of Disney’s The Lion King continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday, 28 September.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre All’s Well That Ends Well continues until 26 September while Hamlet and As You Like It both continue until Saturday 28 September; in the Swan Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean comedy A Mad World My Masters continues until 25 October and Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus until 26 October.