Outdoor Event
Thu 24 Jul 2025
Shakespeare in the Garden: "As You Like It"
This years' alfresco performance set in Leighton Hall’s beautiful gardens is "As You Like It". Performed by The Festival Players, this popular play is performed by an all-male cast with original music. Leighton’s gardens open at 6pm for pre-performance picnics. Since this is an open-air production, visitors should bring their own seating and warm clothes!
Timings: Gates open from 6pm – with the play starting from 7.30pm
Cost: Admission TBC
Shakespeare Synopsis for "As You Like It": Star-crossed love forms the central theme of this pastoral comedy full of twists and turns, along with family feuds, mistaken identity, double-crossing and cross-dressing! Sparkling with Shakespeare’s wittiest wordplay, as Benedict and Rosalind’s paths cross in the romantic Forest of Arden, will their true hearts’ desires finally be revealed?
Leighton’s gardens open at 6pm for pre-performance picnics. Since this is an open-air production, visitors should bring their own seating and warm clothes!
Please note the play will go ahead rain or shine.
Why not make an occasion of it and bring a picnic!