Productions
In 2015, our 20th year, Shakespeare at Traquair performed their 21st consecutive promenade production (Hamlet) in the beautiful grounds of Traquair House. In 2016 we performed The Taming of the Shrew, in 2017 The Winter’s Tale, in 2018 Much Ado About Nothing and in 2019 Love’s Labour’s Lost. In our 25th year we planned to perform A Midsummers Night’s Dream, the play that started it all in 1995. However, this has now been moved to 2021, due to the cornoavirus outbreak.
As well as these annual shows, we also put on productions at the Eastgate Theatre and elsewhere. Many of these have given starring roles to, or been cast entirely with, children or young adults. Young people also often play a crucial role in our annual promenade productions. In 2015 and 2016, our young cast performed (including sell out performances), at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (The Comedy of Errors and Macbeth and Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet) and in 2018 they performed The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing at the world’s largest arts festival.
In 2012, as part of the RSC Open Stages programme, Traquair House and Shakespeare at Traquair ran the 2 day Shakespeare Festival in the grounds of house. Events included theatre workshops run by the RSC and others, Elizabethan and Mediaeval music concerts and a series of Shakespeare-related productions in an indoor stage. A series of other Elizabethan and Medieval displays and events completed the entertainment.
Links to our productions can be found below, including videos, photographs and other details.
More details on the older productions are being added and if you have any photographs from these shows, please email us.
Promenade at Traquair House
- Julius Caesar (2023)
- Richard III (2022)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2021)
- There will be no performance in 2020
- Love’s Labour’s Lost (2019)
- Much Ado About Nothing (2018)
- The Winter’s Tale (2017)
- The Taming of the Shrew (2016)
- Hamlet (2015)
- The Comedy of Errors (2014)
- King Lear (2013)
- Twelfth Night (2012)
- Romeo and Juliet (2011)
- Macbeth (2010)
- Othello (2009)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor (2008)
- The Lion in Winter (2007)
- The Tempest (2007)
- As You Like It (2006)
- A Fistful of Faeries (2005)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2005)
- Merchant of Venice (2004)
- Much Ado About Nothing (2003)
- The Taming of the Shrew (2002)
- Twelfth Night (2001)
- Macbeth (2000)
- Romeo and Juliet (1999)
- The Tempest (1998)
- The Winter’s Tale (1997)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1996)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1995)
Eastgate Theatre and Elsewhere
- The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing (2018)
- Open Stage Event (2017)
- Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet (2016)
- The Herbal Bed (2015)
- Shakespeare at Traquair Exhibition (2015)
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (2015)
- The Comedy of Errors and Macbeth (2015)
- Shakespeare’s Canon (2014)
- Young Shakespeare (2013)
- Shakespeare at Traquair Comes to the Eastgate (2013)
- Shakespeare Festival (2012)
- So Long Lives This (2009)
- Songs and Sonnets (2006)
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (2005)
- The Herbal Bed (2005)
- Shakespeare Revue (2004)
