Shakespeare at Traquair is a vibrant community-based group with a backlog of 16 annual promenade productions in the open air of the stunning Traquair House gardens, in the Scottish Borders.
Like Shakespeare’s own company, our actors, costumiers, make-up artists and stage management team have other professions but their passion and commitment to performing Shakespeare’s words never fails to entertain large cohorts of followers.
This year we will be performing Twelfth Night. Romeo and Juliet was our 2011 production, following on from a 4-Star (The List), sell-out production of Othello in 2009 and a gripping full-capacity eight nights of Macbeth in 2010.
Photographs and videos from this year's performance can be found here.
Twelfth Night 2012
Wednesday 23rd to Sunday 27th May
Thursday 31st May to Saturday 2nd June
Children Under 14 Auditions: 26 February 2012
This year's S@T production is “Twelfth Night”, and children under the age of 14 are invited to come to an audition on 26th February from 2:30pm until 4:30pm at the Eastgate Studio in Peebles for children's parts in the play. “Twelfth Night” is one of Shakespeare's Festive Comedies, and is one of his best-loved plays.
This year's production is part of the RSC Open Stages programme which will introduce a few changes from our usual production process:
- The production run will be a week or two earlier than usual, from Wednesday 23rd May to Sunday 27th, and Thursday 31st May to Saturday 2nd June.
- The production will form part of the Traquair Shakespeare Festival in the middle week-end on Saturday 26th May and Sunday 27th May. The Festival will transport you back to Shakespearean times to enjoy jousting, archery, falconry, living history displays, jesters and other Elizabethan pursuits as well as enjoying theatre and early music throughout the weekend.
- There may be a residential week-end of workshops with trainers from the National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
We do hope that you will come along to the auditions and go on to take part in this year's production of “Twelfth Night”. Tom Hudson and I look forward to seeing you at the auditions.
Traquair Shakespeare Festival 2012
As part of the RSC Open Stages programme, Traquair House is running a 2 day Festival in the grounds of Traquair House from 26th to 27th May in 2012.
Photographs from previous productions have been added and you can now view images from The Merchant of Venice (2004), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (2005), As You Like It (2006), The Lion in Winter (2007), The Tempest (2007), The Merry Wives of Windsor (2008), Othello (2009), Macbeth (2010) and Romeo and Juliet (2011).
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Romeo and Juliet 20114 star review of 2009's production of Othello in The List.
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