Friday 21st – Sunday 23rd June
Friday 28th – Sunday 30th June

Friday and Saturday performances 7pm
(6pm gates open for picnics)
Sunday performances 2pm
(1pm gates open for picnics)

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR by William Shakespeare
Directed by Mary Swan | Performed by The Proteans

Outdoors at The Walled Garden, Down Grange for the Basingstoke Festival 2013
The Proteans follow up the runaway success of last year's 'The Taming of the Shrew' with another of Shakespeare's comic masterpieces, all told with slapstick humour, songs and their own unique brand of theatrical magic. 

Ticket reservations on 01256 354541 Tickets: £10 full | £6 students & children

Music by David Nield, book and lyrics by Jeremy James Taylor and Frank Whately
Directed by Amanda Affleck-Cruise and Ross Harvie
Musical Direction by Tim Cumper

The new Basingstoke Youth Theatre in association with Proteus Theatre Company, Central Studio and Anvil Arts present over 30 talented local young people in a stark and moving account of child deprivation in London in the 1850s especially commissioned for the Basingstoke Festival 2013.

Tickets: £8 full | £6 concessions | £6.00 children & students

For tickets call: 01256 844244

Wednesday 25th September | 7.30pm
ROMEO AND JULIET

The Watermill Theatre present Romeo and Juliet.

By William Shakespeare
Adapted by Beth Flintoff
Directed by Clive Judd

As adulthood looms and the pressures of academia mount, two students find themselves entangled in an emotionally charged and inevitably tragic relationship.

Tickets: £10.50 full | £9.50 concessions | £6.00 students & children

Thursday 17th October | 7.30pm
100

AsOne Theatre Company

Written by Diene Petterle, Neil Monaghan and Christopher Heimann
Directed by Jacqueline Avery and Peter John Cooper
Music by Simon Swarbrick

Imagine you had to choose just one memory to take into eternity, and that you would re-live that treasured memory afresh, experiencing it as for the first time over and over. That is what four characters are urged to do by a mysterious other – to a count of ‘100’! What memory would you choose?

“Powerful, thought provoking theatre” Crediton Arts Centre

Tickets: £10.50 full | £9.50 concessions | £6.00 students & children

Thursday 31st October 7pm
Friday 1st November 2pm & 7pm
Saturday 2nd November 11am (Saturday Live) & 7pm

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Proteus Theatre Company in association with The Stables, Milton Keynes

This winter Proteus Theatre Company cordially invites you to follow them down the rabbit hole to Wonderland for amazing adventures – oh, and tea, of course.
Proteus will once again be bringing their trademark fusion of music, physical theatre, circus and puppetry creating an anarchic, magical and mad-as-a-hatter version of Lewis Carroll’s classic tales ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘Alice Through The Looking Glass’.
No storm in a teacup, this show promises to provide all your six impossible things a day, so whatever you do – don’t be late!

“Joyful fusion of delicious theatricality” The Stage

Tickets: 7pm performances: £10.50 full | £9.50 concessions | £6.00 students & children
2pm & 11am performances: £6.00 full | £5.00 children

Friday 22nd November
I’M AN ARISTOCRAT, GET ME OUT OF HERE!

Gonzo Moose

Paris, 1792. Revolution grips the city and the secret police march traitors to their deaths. No one is safe. Everyone is a suspect. Paris needs a hero, someone who can deliver it from this terror and restore freedom and justice. Will such a hero emerge? Yes.
With comedy and thrills galore you’ll gasp, laugh and be amazed at the elaborate sword fights, the heart wrenching love scenes, and the sensational death-defying French accents!

Tickets: £12.00 full | £10.00 concessions | £8.00 students & children

Friday 28th February | 7.30pm
WOYZECK 

Scene Productions

Set amidst the backdrop of WW1, Woyzeck is a startling depiction of the lowly soldier plagued by visions of the apocalypse and plunged into homicidal lunacy by the world around him.
Fusing gothic storytelling, puppetry, song and a spine chilling sound track, this brand new adaptation based on the play by Georg Buchner takes the audience into a world that is disturbingly atmospheric, heart breakingly poignant, darkly comic and delightfully interactive.

“Chillingly combines hilarity with horror…this production has a dream-like quality, powerfully evoked by immaculately slick, highly imaginative physical theatre” The Stage on Metamorphosis

Tickets: £10.50 full | £9.50 concessions | £6.00 students & children