Outdoor Suffolk venue Thorington Theatre has unveiled it’s 2023 line up of shows, kicking off with live music and taking in Shakespeare, comedy, and opera.
The theatre in a forest opened in 2021, using wood from surrounding area to create an auditorium in a crater caused by a second world war bomb.
The 2023 line up is the venue’s busiest to date and includes:
- May 26 – Trials of Cato – live music from a Welsh / English trio that formed in Beirut, and whose debut album won the 2019 Radio 2 Folk Album of the Year Award
- May 28 – Robin Hood – a family play presented by Illyria theatre
- June 2 – The Odyssey – a new adaptation of Homer’s classic tale by Troubadour Stageworks, incorporating live music
- June 10 – Mother Tree – an aerial show performed by Kim Wildbourne about motherhood, nature, and maternal mental health combining theatre, aerial silk, and spoken word
- June 11 – Bad Dad – a family play written by comedian and children’s author David Walliams
- June 13 & 18 – The Wind In The Willows – a family adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s well-known tale, combined with traditional folk music
- June 16 – The Comedy Store Players – a two hour show of improvised comedy from the famous London comedy club
- June 17 – Orpheus Dismembered – Storytelling for grown ups, told by Ben Haggarty and with music by Jonah Brody, drawing on the rawest forms of Greek mythology
- July 13 – Hoolie McNish and Michael Pedersen – poetry and storytelling
- July 15 & 16 – Twelfth Night – Duke’s Theatre company present Shakespeare’s farcical tale, with original music
- July 31, August 2 & 4 – Loki, Lord of Mischief – Immersive family theatre from Wild Geese theatre
- August 7, 9, & 11 – Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens – music family theatre in this prequel to J M Barrie’s better known children’s tale
- August 9 & 10 – Hamlet – a condensed version of the Bard’s greatest tragedy, performed by US touring company Project Shakespeare
For the full programme and further details visit the Thorington Theatre website.
