It’s all about summer love at Warwick’s Playbox Theatre

Warwick Playbox Theatre’s Year of Love and Forbidden Love moves into its summer phase this week, with two new Shakespeare productions.
By The Newsroom
Published 26th Jun 2013, 08:01 BST
Playbox Theatre members in the company's production of The Taming of the Shrew.Playbox Theatre members in the company's production of The Taming of the Shrew.
Playbox Theatre members in the company's production of The Taming of the Shrew.

The young actors in Playbox’s Rose Company, under the directorship of Stewart McGill, started their tour of a new adaptation of Venus and Adonis at the Dream Factory in Shelley Avenue on Friday.

The production - performances of which are free to attend - has been created for the outdoors and is based on the Elizabethan paintings of travelling players, who visit gardens, country houses and churches every year.

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The tour moved on to Warwick University campus yesterday, then it will be performed at the Dell in Stratford on June 29 and 30, All Saints’ church in Leamington on July 11, Garden Organic in Ryton-on-Dunsmore on July 13 and at the Shakespeare Festival on July 20.

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At the same time, members of Playbox’s Fortune Company are creating what they describe as a “topsy-turvy Italianate world of the Commedia dell’arte” at the Dream Factory in their new take on The Taming of The Shrew. Performances will be from July 4 to July 6 at 7.30pm, with a Saturday matinee at 3pm. Tickets cost £8. Call 419555 ext 2.