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Aside from Her Royal Majesty’s visit to Shropshire in July it has been announced that a Queen Elizabeth will also be paying a special visit to the county in June.

A recent non-stop reading of scenes based on the theme of marriage from Shakespeare’s plays has raised £350 for Severn Hospice. The event entitled ‘The Merry Wives of Shropshire’, took place in The Square, Shrewsbury, at the end of April, where members of Shropshire Drama Company’s cast for its forthcoming production of The Merry Wives […]

Fans of Shakespeare are in for a treat on Saturday 28 April when Shropshire Drama Company (SDC) undertakes an unusual challenge to promote its forthcoming production of The Merry Wives of Windsor at Much Wenlock Festival and raise money for Severn Hospice. Entitled ‘The Merry Wives of Shropshire’, the event will run from 10am to […]

Rehearsals are well under way and tickets now available to book online for Shropshire Drama Company’s forthcoming production – William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. Directed by Rosalind Garrard and assisted by April Ryder, the outdoor performances will take place from 11 – 16 June at Holy Trinity Church Green in Much Wenlock as […]

A Newtown based piano sales and hire company has stepped in to help out with Shropshire Drama Company’s forthcoming production of Noel Coward’s Hay Fever at Theatre Severn. Established in 1991 and celebrating its 20th year of trading in 2011, Stuart Jones Pianos, which is one of only seven Steinway dealers in the UK, offer […]

Following sell-out successes of She Stoops to Conquer in 2009 and Hay Fever earlier this year, tickets are now on sale for Shropshire Drama Company’s (SDC) forthcoming production of August Strindberg’s Creditors at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn Walker Theatre, from 27 to 29 October. Presented in the new (2008) version translated by David Greig, Creditors is […]

Copyright Tom Foxall Rehearsals are well under way and tickets are now available to book online for Shropshire Drama Company’s (SDC) forthcoming production – William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Directed by Joanna Purslow and Rosalind Garrard, the outdoor performance will take place from 14 -19 June at the Holy Trinity Church green in Much Wenlock, as part of the […]

Tickets are now on sale and rehearsals well under way for Shropshire Drama Company’s (SDC) forthcoming production – Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer. Directed by Peter Beechey, the performance will take place at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn on 13, 14 and 15 August. She Stoops to Conquer is a riotous 18th century comedy of misunderstanding, […]

Tickets are now on sale and rehearsals well under way for Shropshire Drama Company’s (SDC) next production – Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge – due to take place early in 2009. Directed by Rosalind Garrard, the performance will take place at two new venues for SDC – Concord College, near Shrewsbury and Ellesmere […]

Fans of Shakespeare are in for a treat over the first Bank Holiday weekend in May, when Shropshire Drama Company (SDC) read twelve of his plays non-stop, to raise funds for their forthcoming production of King Richard III at Much Wenlock Festival and the Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity. SDC’s ‘Bardathon’ will start very early in […]

June 2007 Shropshire Drama Company has announced that their Much Wenlock 2008 performance will be King Richard III by William Shakespeare. The play will run from Monday 09 to Saturday 14 June. More details to follow soon. — ends —

Some of Shropshire’s finest actors have been cast and rehearsals will begin this month for the centre-piece production at this year’s Much Wenlock Festival. Directed by Ken Allden who co-directed the highly-acclaimed production of All’s Well That Ends Well in 2006, Shropshire Drama Company (SDC) will present King Richard lll by William Shakespeare. The story […]

The Shropshire Drama Company has secured a second part sponsor for their forthcoming Shakespeare production at Much Wenlock Festival.

The Shropshire Drama Company has been offered the chance to perform their forthcoming All’s Well That Ends Well production in Stratford as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) Complete Works Festival.

The Shropshire Drama Company has secured part sponsorship for their forthcoming Shakespeare production at Much Wenlock Festival.

The directors of this year’s showpiece Shakespeare production at Much Wenlock Festival are ‘Very excited’ at the launch this week of the new online booking system for purchasing tickets.