To mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, the Living Willow Theatre, in Llanwrthwl, is holding a Midsummer Sonnets Festival over the weekend of June 19 to 21. The highlight of the festival is a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by the Factory Theatre Company which took London’s South Bank by storm last year with its production of Hamlet, which actor Ewan MacGregor described as “Just the most amazing thing to see.” The rest of the festival is a pure sonnet-fest which explore every sonnet in words, dance, visual art, sign and music with an Elizabethan feast to top it all off.
Planted in 2006, the willow theatre is modelled on a scaled-down footprint of the Globe Theatre in London. It’s the biggest living willow theatre in Britain and is entirely powered by the wind and the sun.
County Times, 15 May 2009
We would like to thank the Builth Wells Photographic Club for taking these photographs of the Festival.
Living Willow Community Company triumphs in enchanting pastoral comedy.More...
Theatre Set-Up present an action-packed romantic comedy, written in the magical Celtic tradition.More...
A fabulous weekend of sonnet-themed performances, workshops and lectures.More...
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Quantum Theatre captures young and old alike with Alice's adventures through the looking glass.More...
Young Celtic fusion band One String Loose opens the official 2008 season.More...
Alice Firefly and partner treat the audience to stilt-walking and fiery feats for a blazing Beltane bash.More...
The Living Willow Community Company triumphs in that Scottish play!More...
Theatre Set-up makes a welcome return to end well in All's Well!More...
AJ Roach makes a triumphant return with his Strange Pilgrims. More...