THE SHAKESPEARE SHOW

We hope everyone who saw Cradley Village Players’ version of Christmas Carol at the New Year enjoyed it as much as we did.  How to follow Dickens?  In this of all years, there can be only one choice, for it can’t have escaped your notice that 2016 is the 400th anniversary of the death of our greatest poet and playwright: William Shakespeare.

Special events are everywhere.  The RSC are staging Hamlet in virtually every country in the world, our own Jill Salmons saw Romeo and Juliet in Auckland and Cradley School are creating a garden for the RHS Malvern Spring Show based on The Tempest.

We’ve decided to take a slightly different route by staging an event we’re calling The Shakespeare Show. It will be a mainly light-hearted affair with a few short extracts from the great man&rshttps://cradleyvillageplayers.comketches inspired by his work - and a reminder of how Shakespeare has enlivened our language as well as our literature.    

The show will be directed by Mary Fielding who was responsible for our hilarious production of Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus last Summer.

We’re staging The Shakespeare Show in Cradley School from Thursday 2nd to Saturday 4th June at 7.30 pm.  All tickets cost £5 and will be available from the Cradley Butchery, online or on the door.