What’s On: Summer 2027

Monday 21st June, 7.30pm

Running time: 2hr 40m

Four Forty Theatre invite you into their outrageous take on Shakespeare’s most magical comedy.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream follows runaway lovers, magical creatures, and a group of very determined actors who find themselves in over their heads. With quick character changes, playful invention, and a sparkle of silliness, Four Forty transform the classic into a joyful night of theatre for audiences of all ages.

Whether you’re a Shakespeare lover or brand new to his plays, this production brims with warmth, laughter, and unexpected surprises. It’s a summer dream brought vividly — and hilariously — to life.

A Shakespearean classic, reinvented with wit, mischief, and theatrical mayhem.

Friday 9th July, 7.30pm

Running time: 1hr 45m

Luke Wright used to think he had the answers. Now he's not so sure.

For twenty-five years, Fringe First winner Luke Wright has been writing poems that wrestle with the world around him. In this new show, he discovers that certainty is rarely as useful as he once thought.

As children grow up, heroes become more complicated and old certainties begin to wobble, Wright finds himself looking again: at the country he lives in, the people he loves, and even those he thought he'd already made his mind up about.

Part poetry, part stand-up Yes. is about changing your mind without losing your convictions – and staying open in an increasingly entrenched world.

“Honesty, humour, ire and wonder. He is at the peak of his powers.”

★★★★★ The Stage

Thursday 12th August, 7.30pm

Running time: 2 hrs

It's four brides for four bros in Shakespeare's courtly comedy of devotion, deception and desperately bad disguises!

King Ferdinand and his three lords agree to swear off women and commit themselves to the noble pursuits of fasting and studying. It's all going swimmingly until the Princess of France and her three ladies arrive in town... Can the lads keep to their oath in the face of overwhelmingly convenient maths? Or will love make them do the silliest things?

The critically-acclaimed Pantaloons present their own brand of Shakespearean mayhem with live music and audience interaction.

Thursday 19th August, 7.30pm

Running time: 1hr 50m

It's 1916 and the world's greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, has retired to the South Downs to care for his beloved bees.

With his country in desperate need of his unique skills, there's only one person who can persuade him to return to Baker Street… but how will Dr Watson convince Holmes to return and save the day?

Elementary… remind him of his greatest adventures!

Thursday 15th July, 7.30pm

Running time: 2hrs 10mins

Monsters, mud and magical mayhem!

Join the critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company on a rummage through the weird and wonderful in this fantastically farcical show that attempts to cover the entirety of British folklore in under two hours.

Yes, all your questions will finally be answered! How many knights did King Arthur have, what the heck did they all do and why do they have to sing about it? What's the best way to slay a dragon? What's up with the Cerne Giant? And how does the Loch Ness Monster make everyone's photos blurry?

Featuring live music, puppetry, audience interaction and an improbable amount of giant cats and dogs.

Thursday 8th July, 7.30pm

Running time: 2hr 15m

The critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company present the Regency rom-com of constancy, confusion and severe concussions.

Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth were engaged to be married – until she was persuaded by her friends to break it off. When they meet again eight years later they have another shot at love – unless fiscally-irresponsible fathers, conniving cousins or perilously plunging young women contrive to scupper their reunion.

Expect heartbreak and hilarity delivered in The Pantaloons' delightfully anarchic style.