"The perfect evening" 
Daily Express

"a touring company which rises to the challenge of staging plays in the open air and succeeds triumphantly"
Dorset Echo

"as the bard himself would have liked it"
Shrewsbury Chronicle

"A real summer treat"
www.bbc.co.uk

"A fairy tale evening"
Dundee Courier

Welcome to Chapterhouse...

Thank you for visiting our website. Our news page is being updated regularly, and we are very excited  about all the new developments. We hope you like the new website and that you will visit us on a regular basis during the run-up to the summer open air season. News can be found both here and at our news link, but to start with, you can click on any of the images below to find out a little bit about this years shows. Tickets are now on sale at www.seetickets.com for a number of venues with more to be added soon. Thank you.

Summer 2010 

Our shows are booking up very quickly and tickets for many of our venues are now on sale at www.seetickets.com. If you would like to host one of our shows, we would very much like to hear from you. Look out for a special announcement about our Winter 2010 tour, coming soon!

Pride and Prejudice
adapted by Laura Turner

The Merchant of Venice

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Beauty and the Beast

by Laura Turner

Much Ado About Nothing

Chapterhouse have two very exciting announcements to herald the start of a brand new year for the company! 

We are thrilled to be able to make an announcement about Summer 2011. As we have been receiving so much interest and so many enquiries, we are now announcing our 2011 Summer tour programme, which will feature : 

‘Cranford’
Written By Laura Turner
Adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell

 ‘The Taming of the Shrew’
By William Shakespeare

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
By William Shakespeare

‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarves’
By Laura Turner

Plus one other exciting new play to be announced very soon! All these productions, will be touring the UK from June until September 2011, with all our shows other than ‘Snow White’ also touring Ireland, so there is lots to look forward to over the coming months (and years!)

Everyone at Chapterhouse is most excited about our 2010 and 2011 programmes – 2010 has barely begun and already we are thinking about next year too!

 We have certainly not forgotten about 2010, however, and Gill and Richard are busy firming up the tour schedules, whilst Sam prepares for her maternity leave. In an exciting new project for 2010, this year, for the first time, posters for all our shows will be available on our website for you to download and enjoy, wherever you are! If you are a venue, a school, a newsagent, or quite simply a theatre-lover, our posters are for everyone and we would like to encourage you all to take the opportunity to print off the designs and display them wherever you would like. If you belong to a group or society, why not share our posters with your group: remember, all group bookings receive a discount! John has been working hard on our stunning new publicity images and materials and we will be finalising venue information in the next few weeks. Posters will be going to print in March, and will reach the website soon after, so keep checking the website for more updates on this and all the other goings on here at Chapterhouse!

‘Cranford’

Relax into a lazy summer’s evening of delightful entertainment as Chapterhouse transports you to the sleepy Victorian town of Cranford. Based on Elizabeth Gaskell’s classic novel, this brand-new adaptation of ‘Cranford’ will bring a smile to young and old alike as the adventures and dramas of life in the countryside are brought to a picturesque venue near you.

‘The Taming of the Shrew’

The battle of the sexes is in full swing as Chapterhouse Theatre Company presents one of Shakespeare’s most controversial comedies, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’. Feisty Katharina meets her match in Petruchio, who slowly manages to woe this so-called shrew of a woman with a somewhat unconventional courtship. Misogynistic merriment will meet the magic of true love under beautiful summer skies at some of the UK and Ireland’s most spectacular venues. Be sure to join Chapterhouse in 2011, as tricks, tantrums and lovers’ tiffs create a hilarious evening’s entertainment.

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

Everyone’s favourite Shakespearean story of frolicking fairies, lovers lost in the woods and the misadventures of a hilarious group of mechanicals, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is sure to bring a smile to young and old alike during the summer of 2011. Join Chapterhouse Theatre Company as they whisk you into the mystical forest where Puck and his fellow fairies wreck havoc with the quarrelling lovers. Complete with period costume, music, song, dance, and a donkey, Chapterhouse’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is not to be missed.

‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarves’

This beloved fairytale will be brought to life for audiences across the UK in 2011 as Snow White finds a rather unusual group of friends, deep in the forest. Children and adults alike will adore this lovely new adaptation of such a familiar story as six 1940s’ children decide to perform their own version of the tale one hot summer’s afternoon. Join the children and their special friend Milky-White the cow for a wonderful afternoon’s entertainment – and don’t forget to come in fancy dress for the Fairytale Parade during the interval!

Should you experience any problems, or notice any errors, please contact theoffice@chapterhouse.org