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Special Events On In Stratford Now

Below are on-line events you can enjoy at home during lockdown to help support our local businesses. For a full list of all our businesses visit the business listing pages for links to their on-line pages 

Royal Shakespeare Theatre Escape Live logo  
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust logo Myton Hospice logo

 

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Christmas just wouldn't be the same without a Tread the Boards panto! Join them as they go on tour around Warwickshire outdoor venues this festive season!

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Cinderella dreams of meeting her Prince Charming, but with her ugly sisters getting the way, will she ever find her happy ending? This family friendly pantomime will delight all ages!

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Please note this is a one hour long outdoor production so come prepared for the weather and wrap up warm!

 

More info at www.theattictheatre.co.uk/cinderella

 

Tickets on sale for the following venues

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Looking Glass Aesthetics Virtual Events

 

Dermalogica have launched the ProBright@home virtual service and Looking Glass Aesthitics will be hosting group Zoom sessions of around 10 people. You can get a few friends to book too and have a ‘virtual’ pamper party.

It’s a 45 minute session for £15 and this includes your ProBright@home treatment kit which includes all the products you need to give yourself a high-intensity brightening treatment under our guidance.

The first 2 dates are sold out, so they have added 2 more dates for November

Tuesday 24th November at 7pm

Thursday 26th November at 7pm

Click on your chosen date above to book or call them on 01789 261144

However, if you have a large group of friends who would like an exclusive event on a different date, please call on 01789 261144 to see what availability there is.

 

Looking Glass Aesthetics
6 Windsor Court
CV37 6GG

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Vin Neuf Independent Wine Merchants

Due to the social-distancing restrictions Vin Neuf are unable to hold wine tastings in their cellar – BUT they are now running Virtual Wine Tastings on Instagram Live!

The tastings last around 30 – 40 minutes and they will guide you through a tasting of the three wines. You’ll be able to interact by posting questions and comments in the live feed.

You can order the wines in advance, through their online shop, and they will deliver to you, ahead of the tasting.

Our next Virtual Wine Tasting is on Friday 4th December

Vin Neuf Independent Wine Merchants
Union Street
01789 261747
info@vinneuf.co.uk

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Motivate your entire team with the one-of-a-kind hosted, team-building experience ROGUE AGENT!
This new, unique, online, escape game combines all the fun and mystery of a physical escape room and brings it straight to you.

Join in over Zoom, MS Teams or your preferred video conferencing platform and play against each other in teams in a race to see who can complete the mission first!

Whats included

Escape Live
31 Greenhill Street
CV37 6LE

01789 507060

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£4 for up to 24 hours parking

STRATFORDSAVER in the NCP ParkPass phone app.

App available from Apple or Google Play store.

This offer runs until 17th December

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Jo Malone Virtual Consultations

The personal service you’ve come to expect from Jo Malone stores can now be experienced online.

Book yourself in for a virtual consultation with one of their expert Stylists.

Book A Consultation

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Quiz in aid of Myton Hospice. Local radio presenter & filmmaker Lee Greenhough will be hosting a live virtual quiz & bringing you a night packed of festive fun in aid of Myton! #CovHour

▶️ www.mytonhospice.org/our-events/event/big-myton-christmas-quiz ▶️

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Just some of the ways you can encounter Shakespeare with the Birthplace Trust while their sites are closed to visitors

Short Film Shakespedia What was Shakespeare really like?
Poetry Celebration Creative challenge Zoom virtual background
Shakespeare virtual pub quiz Colour Shakespeare's family homes

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ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ANNOUNCES WINTER 2020 PROGRAMME

Public booking opens Friday 20 November - online at 10am and telephone from 12noon.

The Royal Shakespeare Company has today announced details of its Winter 2020 programme which includes a newly commissioned series of Tales for Winter running from Saturday 5 December 2020 to Saturday 23 January 2021.

The full programme of events was due to be performed to a reduced-capacity, socially-distanced audience in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre with many performances being streamed to enable people further afield to take part.

Following the latest government announcement, the RSC will now offer live-stream only versions of all shows taking place between Saturday 5 and Saturday 12 December which will be available for one week after broadcast, with a view to welcoming audiences back to the theatre from Saturday 19 December. Full Covid-19 safety measures will be in place to make sure that up to 200 audience members can see events socially-distanced in a safe atmosphere, with the RSC welcome remaining as strong as ever.

The programme features contributions from David Walliams with live music by Guy Chambers and performances by the 2020 RSC Acting Company.

RSC Artistic Director, Gregory Doran, said: “Despite the latest lockdown announcements, we remain fully committed to producing our Winter programme of events and to sharing the joy of live performance with our audiences, whether that’s back in-person or online. We are keeping the situation under close review in line with government and public health guidance and look forward to welcoming visitors as soon as it is safe to do so.

“As the global pandemic continues to prevent us being with one another in ways we could never have imagined, we need stories now, more than ever before. They help us to make sense of the world around us and to bring us together as a community, to celebrate, commiserate, reflect and rebuild.

“And whilst we continue to look forward to the time when we can welcome back full-scale RSC productions to the RST, we are delighted to be opening our doors to reduced-capacity audiences once again this Winter to share in the unique magic that is live theatre”  

Royal Shakespeare Theatre – Online (and In-person from 19 December)

Running over six weekends from Saturday 5 December – Saturday 23 January (excluding Christmas and New Year), Tales for Winter (Your Place or Ours) will welcome audiences back to the RSC with a series of stripped back warm-up events, celebrating the essence of live theatre: an actor, a stage and a story.

Performed by a company of RSC Actors against the iconic backdrop of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Tales for Winter is, at its heart, a celebration: of the essential joy of storytelling and of the transformative power of live theatre.

Streamed Events:

Launching on Saturday 5 December, the opening weekend will look back on the most recent story to be brought magically to life on the RST stage, David Walliams’ The Boy in the Dress.

One year on from the opening of the RSC’s hit musical The Boy in the Dress in Stratford-upon-Avon, no. 1 best-selling children’s author David Walliams will visit the Royal Shakespeare Theatre on Saturday 5 December to read from his original book. He will be joined by songwriter and musician Guy Chambers alongside members of the original cast and creative team for the launch of the official cast album.

The Boy in the Dress official cast album will be available to pre-order on CD and iTunes from 16 November and available to purchase on CD, iTunes, Spotify and YouTube Music from 4 December.

On Saturday 12 December, online audiences are invited to join members of the RSC Acting Company on an epic journey through the twists and turns of ancient Troy with a dramatic re-telling of the history of the Trojan war in five parts, based on the Greek classics - The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid - from translations by John Dryden and Alexander Pope.

Weaving together a patchwork of sources, RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran retells the thrilling story of the Trojan War. Across one epic day, RSC Actors recount our Troy Story in five live-streamed parts, including the famous wooden horse and the mythical voyage of Odysseus. Each event will last around an hour, and there is the option to watch again online.

In-person events in December:

Looking ahead to Christmas, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre will host a weekend of music and reflection on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 December. Festive Tales will feature carols, songs and festive readings celebrating the spirit of Christmas and the Royal Shakespeare Community.

Subject to the latest government guidance, this weekend will see reduced-capacity, socially-distanced audiences return to the RST for the first time since the theatre closed its doors in March, and will also be live streamed for audiences to enjoy from home.

Alongside poetry from Maya Angelou, the programme will remember RSC productions past, with extracts from and The Christmas Truce by Phil Porter (2014), inspired by the diaries of Bruce Bairnsfather and the men of the Warwickshire Regiment, and A Christmas Carol adapted by David Edgar (2018).

 Looking ahead - January 2021

In January, Tales for Winter continues with a weekly programme of online performances inspired by the work of former Children’s Laureate and best-selling author Michael Morpurgo who has joined the Royal Shakespeare Company to present a special series of preview events inspired by his new book, Tales from Shakespeare. 

Readings include a one-off recording of Twelfth Night by Michael Morpurgo and a weekly programme of in-person and online events for schools and families. The programme will feature well-known Shakespeare titles including Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream performed by members of the RSC Acting Company.

Other highlights in January include a specially curated programme of Shakespeare performances by the RSC’s Next Generation ACT company and Youth Advisory Board and a new musical concert inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Full programme details to be announced in December.

See It Safely – visiting the Royal Shakespeare Theatre

The safety and enjoyment of audiences remains the Company’s number one priority. In response to the current COVID-19 pandemic and in accordance with the latest government guidance, the RSC has introduced a range of COVID-19 secure measures. These include enhanced cleaning between performances, statutory face coverings, socially distanced seating, pre-ordering of refreshments and one-way systems operating throughout key areas of the building. Only 200 audience members will be welcomed to each event in the RST, which normally seats just over 1000 people.

Visitors can choose an area of the theatre and their exact seats will be allocated by Front of House teams at the performance, depending on party sizes and current government guidance. All available seats have a clear and uninterrupted view of the stage.

The theatre building will open 1 hour before performances Festive Tales begins, with the auditorium opening 45 minutes before the start time

For full safety information, visit rsc.org.uk/your-visit/your-safety

Accessability

Assisted performances will also take place on selected dates in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. These include BSL interpreted performances of Festive Tales on Saturday 19 December at 7pm. This will be followed by a chilled and captioned performance of Festive Tales on Sunday 20 December at 4.30pm with further dates to be announced in January.

Flexible Bookings, Exchanges and Refunds:

For bookings made throughout 2020 for future performances, audiences can book their tickets with confidence knowing that if they are unable to attend a performance for any reason, they can exchange their tickets up to 2 hours before the performance or event start time, at no extra cost.

Tickets can be exchanged for another performance with seats at the same price or for an RSC Gift Voucher which can be used as part or full payment against future ticket purchases or memberships, ether online, in person or over the telephone. RSC Gift Vouchers are valid for 12 months from the date of issue.

Bookings can be made up until the point at which the performance begins. If a performance is cancelled, tickets can be refunded.

Tickets selected for online streamed events cannot be exchanged or refunded.

BOOKING INFORMATION: 01789 331111 or www.rsc.org.uk