The Dell, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s outdoor theatre in Stratford, will play host to a range of community, student and semi-professional productions throughout July and August 2022.
The Dell, on the banks of the river Avon in Avonbank Gardens near Holy Trinity Church, opened as part of the Complete Works Festival in 2006. Entrance is free and no booking is required.
The first performance will be Twelfth Night by the Boaty Theatre Company from Ellesmere Port, Cheshire on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 July.
Gobstoppers Shakespeare’s Circus, a youth theatre formed in Hertfordshire in 1994, will create a storm with The Tempest on Sunday 10 July.
The BRIT School will tackle Hamlet and Macbeth on Saturday 16 July followed by The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet on Sunday 17 July.
Partners Rapt, featuring University of Warwick and Shakespeare Institute alumni, will mash up Shakespeare’s original text with the characters and settings of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Henry the Thorth on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 July.
Stratford-based Sweet Sorrow Theatre, founded in September 2020, will present A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 July.
Three performers from Rendered Retina will portray 18 characters with “instruments, hats and a big box on wheels” in Timon of Athens on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 August.
SAVVY Theatre Company from Croydon plays with some of the central characters when it stages its adaptation Twelfth Night: The Acoustic Sessions on Saturday 13 August.
A “punchy, upbeat reimagining of Shakespeare’s original text, set in West Berlin in the late 1980s” is on offer when German company Shakespeare Reloaded performs Romeo and Juliet Reloaded on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 August.
The final production will be Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group’s The Merchant of Venice on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 August.
Further information is available at the RSC web site.