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Following on from their much acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream last summer, Kent Rep revisit Shakespeare’s most farcical comedy, originally presented at
Hever in their very first year as a theatre company in 1983. The show led directly to the
formation of the Hever Lakeside Theatre and the Hever Summer Festival in the following year, which
also included a production of Oh What a Lovely War! |
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Thursday 30th July – Sunday 2nd August
incl. matinee performance – Friday 31st July
The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
This farcical, sometime zany, comedy is ideally suited to the inventive and original style
that has come to characterise Kent Rep’s approach to Shakespeare’s comedies.
The action of the play centres around two pairs of identical twins and the consequent
potential for mistaken identity that leads in turn to wild mishaps, wrongful beatings and
a near-incestuous seduction! It is fast moving, dynamic and very, very funny. If good
old-fashioned slapstick and comic mayhem are to your taste, this is your show!
Great fun, wildly entertaining, it’s kind of like the Three Stooges in Shakespeare time! |
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Thursday 27th – Sunday 30th August
Thursday 3rd – Sunday 6th September
Joan Littlewood’s Musical Entertainment
Oh What a Lovely War
by Theatre Workshop, Charles Chilton, Gerry Raffles and Members of the Original Cast.
Title suggested by Ted Allan.
Originally produced in 1963 by Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop, Oh What a Lovely
War was later turned into a film by Richard Attenborough after winning the Grand Prix of the
Theatre des Nations festival in Paris.
Presented in the format of a pre-1914 Pierrot Show, OWALW tells the story of the First World
War in a series of music hall turns and comedy sketches, interspersed with well known songs of the time such as Goodbyee,
Hold your Hand Out Naughty Boy, Pack Up Your Troubles and Its a Long Way to Tipperary. But what starts off as a highly enjoyable
popular entertainment becomes a poignant and moving theatrical experience as the full story of the war unfolds.
Oh What a Lovely War is a classic of the modern theatre and an example
of live theatre at its unique and unmissable best. |
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Prices
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‘Royal Circle’ | ‘Stalls’ |
| Saturdays | £18.50 |
£13.50 |
| Thu/Fri/Sun eve | £17.50 |
£12.50 |
| Friday Matinee | £15.00 |
£10.00 |
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The Box Office, The Festival Theatre at Hever Castle, Hever Castle, Edenbridge, Kent. TN8 7NG | Tel: 01732 866114 | theatre@heverfestival.co.uk
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