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"bringing Shakespeare to life in
an entertaining and exhilarating fashion" Edinburgh Evening News "the perfect setting and the perfect performance" North Devon Journal "The perfect evening" "a touring company which
rises to the challenge of staging plays in the open air and succeeds
triumphantly" "as the bard himself would
have liked it" "A real summer treat" "A fairy tale evening" |
Keep updated about Chapterhouse Theatre Company with our news page. We hope to update about once a week, although important announcements will be made as and when.
| 17th August 2010 | Cast Update | Due to happy but unforeseen circumstances, Ms Sophie Morton has left the cast of Beauty and the Beast. The part of Julia is now being played by Natalie Mossayebi. For more information on Natalie, go to our cast page. |
| 14th July 2010 | Cast Updates | Our 2010 Casts Page is currently being updated with links to more information about this year's group of actors. Follow the link to the left to explore. |
| 13th July 2010 | New press coverage | Pride and Prejudice has received a very positive review in the Tenby Observer. The article is complete with a selection of gorgeous production shots, and you can read it HERE or on our brand new Press Archive page! |
| 6th July 2010 | Beauty and the Beast begins... | Rehearsals for Beauty and the Beast have been in full swing for two weeks now, and the actors are preparing for their dress rehearsal tomorrow in front of a local primary school! The six-strong cast, which includes Georgina Sherrington, best known for her role as Mildred Hubble in CITV's The Worst Witch, are very excited about heading out on the road for their first performance at Claremont on Friday. Book your tickets to see them in action today! |
| 5th July 2010 | Brand new review! | Read the Newark Advertiser's review of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Sconce and Devon Park, as "Chapterhouse Theatre Company put on a midsummer night's treat". Find it HERE |
| 2nd July 2010 | Exciting News | Everyone at Chapterhouse is extremely proud to be able to announce that Resident Scriptwriter Laura Turner has been accepted onto a new writing summer school with the BBC. Laura is absolutely thrilled at this opportunity and can't wait to start! |
| 1st July 2010 | Sell-outs | Pride and Prejudice at Erddig, Wrexham on 30th July and Much Ado About Nothing at Ardgillan Castle, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin on 16th July are now SOLD OUT |
| 28th June 2010 | Another review from The Stage | We are thrilled to have received another positive review for A Midsummer Night's Dream from The Stage - read it here! |
| 21st June 2010 | New arrivals | Actors for Beauty and the Beast have now arrived in Lincoln and begun rehearsals. We are very excited about this year's children's show - see our updated 2010 Cast page for more info on this year's recruits! |
| 18th June 2010 | The Stage Review | Check out The Stage's review of Pride and Prejudice at Leeds Castle! Just click here! |
| 11th June 2010 | Opening Nights! | Last night was the opening night of Pride and Prejudice to a sell-out audience at Leeds Castle, and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Hampton Court Castle. Both performances went spectacularly, and we are very excited about the opening night of The Merchant of Venice this evening at Bishop's Palace, Wells, and Much Ado About Nothing at Catthorpe Manor on Saturday. Book your tickets now! |
| 9th June 2010 | New venues added | Three new venues have been added to our tour schedules: Pride and Prejudice will visit Broxbourne Civic Hall on 7th July, and A Midsummer Night's Dream will be at Hardwick Park on 5th August and at Rhinefield House Hotel on 1st August. Check our tour lists for more information! |
| 8th June 2010 | With thanks | As our rehearsal period nears its end, we would like to say a huge thank you to all our actors and directors, and everyone who has worked so hard on the shows, which are already looking fantastic. A special thank you also to those who have created beautiful new costumes and props for the show, including Jo at Apple Tree Lane Costumes; Cloisters Costumes, Claudia Aliffe and Georgina Nurse. |
| 6th June 2010 | St Augustine's Cancellation | We regret to announce that Much Ado About Nothing at St Augustine's Abbey on Friday 18th June has been cancelled. |
| 30th May 2010 | Stonehouse Cancellation | We regret to announce that A Midsummer Night's Dream at Stonehouse Court Hotel on Saturday 12th June has been cancelled. |
| 26th May 2010 | Leeds Castle Sell Out | Pride and Prejudice at Leeds Castle on Thursday 10th June is now SOLD OUT! |
| 25th May 2010 | Live on air! | Listen out on BBC Radio York this afternoon at 3.15pm as Russell Walker interviews writer and adapter Laura Turner about Chapterhouse's productions of Pride and Prejudice and Beauty and the Beast at York Museum Gardens. Catch her live on 103.7FM or if you miss it, listen online with BBC iPlayer by clicking here |
| 21st May 2010 | Pride and Prejudice Winter Tour 2010 - 2011 | Following the fantastic reception to our forthcoming summer tour of Pride and Prejudice, we are thrilled to announce that the production will be returning to theatres and country houses from November to January for a winter tour with A Christmas Carol. Tour lists will be published on our website soon! |
| 18th May 2010 | STOP PRESS! More sell outs | Summer is finally here (in Lincoln, at least) and tickets have been selling like hot cakes! The performances of Pride and Prejudice at Leeds Castle on Friday 11th and Sunday 13th June are now SOLD OUT. Limited availability does still remain for the performance on Thursday 10th June, so book your tickets now by calling (01622) 880008 to avoid disappointment! |
| 14th May 2010 | STOP PRESS! Hever Castle adds second show |
Pride and Prejudice at Hever Castle on Friday 9th July 2010 is now SOLD OUT. Due to phenomenal demand, we have added a second performance of Pride and Prejudice at the Festival Theatre, Hever Castle, on Friday 25th June 2010 at 8pm. Get your tickets now before they sell out! Tickets are priced at £16.50 and are available from the Festival Theatre Box Office on (01732) 866114 |
| 13th May 2010 | 'Green Parent' magazine |
Chapterhouse have been featured in the latest edition of the
Green Parent magazine, the UK's leading green life magazine. The June/July
2010 issue is a Woodland Special, and Editor Melissa
Corkhill loved what we do, and invites you to visit www.thegreenparent.co.uk,
or you can find copies of the magazine in all good newsagents, health-food
stores and supermarkets from tomorrow! |
| 12th May 2010 | Royal Opening... |
We were thrilled to yesterday be involved in a special
one-off event at Sedgefield's Hardwick Park to celebrate the park's
reopening by HRH Duke of Gloucester, following a renovation project that has
seen the lands restored to their former Regency glory. Chapterhouse
performed An Afternoon of Austen, a specially commissioned piece by
Resident Writer Laura Turner and directed by Rebecca Gadsby, and the actors
paraded around the lake in full period costume. We were delighted to be
involved with this event in connection with Durham County Council, and we
hope to have the opportunity to be involved with many more special events
like this.
Adam Grayson as Mr Collins and Kate Elizabeth Ambrose as Mrs Bennet at Hardwick Park, Sedgefield |
| 12th May 2010 | New shows | New shows are still being added to our tour programme, so keep checking our tour schedules for all the latest information. Performances are selling very quickly, with some performances already selling out, particularly for Pride and Prejudice, which is looking to be a very popular choice! Extra shows are consequently being added, so again, keep checking in with us for the latest information! |
| 10th May 2010 | Jane Austen's Regency World Magazine |
Issue 45 of Jane Austen's Regency World features
Chapterhouse's open-air tour of Pride and Prejudice. Exbury Gardens,
which is thought to be the setting for part of Persuasion, is one of
many beautiful venues across the UK and Ireland that the production will be
visiting. The official magazine of the Jane Austen Centre, Bath, you can
find them online at www.janeaustenmagazine.co.uk,
where you can order copies of the magazine.
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| 9th May 2010 | Rehearsals begin! | Actors for The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Pride and Prejudice have now arrived and begun rehearsals. The website is currently being updated with more information about this year's Chapterhouse casts! |
| 5th May 2010 | Special Offer Coming Soon | An exciting special offer will soon be making its way to members of our mailing list...keep an eye out for it over the coming weeks! If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please send your name, email address and region to admin@chapterhouse.org |
| 29th April 2010 | Actors soon to arrive! | Already it is nearly the bank holiday weekend, and soon the actors for our summer shows will be arriving in Lincoln to start rehearsals. Programmes will shortly be going to print, and keep your eyes on this page over the next few days and weeks, with cast headshots appearing soon! |
| 27th April 2010 | Countryfile's Top 10 Al Fresco Entertainments | Chapterhouse's performances at Alice Holt Forest (A Midsummer Night's Dream on Saturday 26th June 2010 and Beauty and the Beast on Wednesday 4th August 2010) are soon to be featured in the Countryfile website's Top Ten Best Al Fresco Entertainments for 2010! Look out for this and more regional and national publicity in the coming weeks! |
| 23rd April 2010 | STOP PRESS! Leeds Castle 13/6/10 | Pride and Prejudice at Leeds Castle on Sunday 13th June 2010 will now begin at 5.00PM |
| 21st April 2010 | PDF leaflets | PDF versions of all our publicity materials for all our 2010 tours will soon be available online for you to view and download. If you are a venue, an organization or an individual, please do feel very free to print off a leaflet to display in your local area or pass around to friends! |
| 20th April 2010 | Lincoln Shakespeare Festival |
Chapterhouse are thrilled to be involved with the first ever
Lincoln Shakespeare Festival, to be held in Lincoln over the August Bank
Holiday Weekend of Thursday 26th to Sunday 29th August 2010. As part of a
fun-packed weekend of events to celebrate the lifetime of the bard,
Chapterhouse will be performing A Midsummer Night's Dream and The
Merchant of Venice in the beautiful grounds of the Lawn, Lincoln. Check our
tour schedules for more information, and find Lincoln
Shakespeare Festival on Facebook.
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| 16th April 2010 | Casting Complete | Casting is now complete for our summer shows, and biographies of all our cast members will soon be online. Rehearsals are starting in less than a month and we are very excited to be welcoming so many wonderful actors both new and old to Lincoln. |
| 5th April 2010 | Corporate Events | Chapterhouse are very pleased to announce that we will soon be branching out into corporate events. More details to come soon, but if you would like to talk to us about this, please contact us on (01522) 569222. |
| 1st April 2010 | Happy Easter! | Wishing everyone a very happy Easter from Chapterhouse! |
| 30th March 2010 | Facebook update | Keep checking our Facebook page for updates on all our tour listings! Search for: Chapterhouse Theatre Company |
| 23rd March 2010 | Congratulations! | We are very happy to announce the safe arrival of a baby boy for our Press Officer Samantha and her partner Chris! |
| 18th March 2010 | Writing developments for Laura | We are thrilled that our Resident Scriptwriter, Laura Turner, has recently been accepted onto a writing programme at Hull Truck Theatre. She is very exciting about the start of the course, and we wish her the best of luck with this new creative endeavour! |
| 16th March 2010 | Facebook Competition |
Visit our discussion page now
to enter our Picnic and Theatre Under the Stars' free prize draw
competition: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic= Go on, get excited about Shakespeare and simply tell us what your favourite Shakespeare play is and why, and you will be entered into our free prize draw with a chance to win family tickets* to any of our Shakespeare productions and take home a delightful hamper full of glorious goodies! The best answer will be chosen by our experienced panel of Shakespearean judges and you will be contacted to receive your fabulous prize, so please make sure you leave us some contact details! Best of luck and we hope to see you enjoying one of our enchanting productions this summer. *Family tickets include 2 adult + 2 children tickets. Exact contents of the picnic hamper TBC. |
| 8th March 2010 | Chapterhouse on Facebook | We now have a group on Facebook. Join up for information on our Summer 2010 open-air tours, upcoming events and production pictures. Search for Chapterhouse Theatre Company, or follow this link: Chapterhouse Theatre Company on Facebook |
| 10th February 2010 | Chapterhouse reunions... |
As this year's tours are being firmed up, we are very pleased to welcome Georgina Nurse and Richard Ison back to work with Chapterhouse. They both worked with Chapterhouse during the early years of the company, and will be returning to create some wonderful new costumes and props for our 2010 tours. |
| 5th February 2010 | 2011 Season | Further to our last post, we are very excited to announce our fifth and final production for 2011, which will be a revival of our most successful show to date, Sense and Sensibility. More information about the tours can be found on our main page. |
| 20th January 2010 | 2011 Season |
Following so many enquiries, we are thrilled to announce our forthcoming tours for 2011. Our summer season will feature The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Snow White, an exciting new adaptation of Cranford and another show, which has yet to be announced! Keep checking our website for all the latest updates, coming soon… |
| 20th January 2010 | Audition Dates |
First audition dates are now set. These are to be held in
Lincoln on Sat 20th, Sun 21st, Mon 22nd and Tues 23rd of March.
Further dates may be announced but for those interested in joining us in
2010 in the first instance CV's should be sent to Casting, 2nd Floor,
8-10 Guildhall Street, Lincoln, LN1 1TT or to office@chapterhouse.org.
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| 6th January 2010 | New recruit! | Following the announcement of Sam's pregnancy, everyone at Chapterhouse is very pleased to welcome Tara to our office. She will be taking on the responsibilities of Press Officer during Samantha's maternity leave, and is currently in the office getting to grips with everything before going fulltime in February. Welcome to the Chapterhouse office, Tara! |
| 4th January 2010 | Exciting News! | Samantha is delighted to announce the imminent arrival of her first child and is now in full bloom of her pregnancy. Due in March, Samantha will begin her maternity leave in February. Samantha and her partner Chris are extremely excited and looking forward to the new year ahead! |
| 18th December 2009 | Tickets now on sale | Tickets for many of our shows are now on sale at www.seetickets.com. A full list of tour dates will be available shortly. |
| 10th December 2009 | 'A Christmas Carol' 2010 | Chapterhouse Theatre Company are thrilled to announce their Winter 2010 Theatre tour, an exciting new adaptation of A Christmas Carol. The production will be booking from November 2010 to January 2011 at theatres around the UK. Keep checking the site for updates and tour dates coming soon! If you are a venue who would like to book the production, please contact Richard or Gill on 01522 569 222, as there are some dates still available. |
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