The Handlebards Outdoor Theatre - Much Ado About Nothing

Name: The Handlebards Outdoor Theatre - Much Ado About Nothing
Start: 2025-08-15T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Wharton Park

Schedule

Fri, 15 Aug, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Wharton Park | Durham, EN

Outdoor Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing.
Date: Friday 15 August 20205
Time: Doors 5.30pm, show time 6.30pm
We are excited to announce that The HandleBards will return to Wharton Park this summer to our Amphitheatre for outdoor Theatre. Tickets go on sale Tuesday 10 December and customers can make the most of the early bird offer, ticket make a great Christmas gift. Tickets can purchased online make the most on the early bird offer visit and search for Wharton Park https://www.handlebards.com/tickets
Pedalling from venue to venue with their set, props and costumes on the back of their bikes, the HandleBards are a four-strong troupe of actors who are spending the summer bringing environmentally sustainable Shakespeare to venues across the UK.
Join the troupe at Wharton Park for a bicycle-powered production of Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ like you’ve never seen before. In usual HandleBards style, expect riotous amounts of energy, a fair old whack of chaos, and a great deal of laughter.
And what’s the play about? Well – a group of soldiers return from the war to a household in Messina, kindling new love interests and re-kindling old rivalries. The parallel love stories of Beatrice, Benedick, Claudio and Hero quickly become entangled with scheming, frivolity and melodrama in Shakespeare’s famous comedy.
Please note performance take place outdoors in the park Amphitheatre with seating on the grassed banks, ticket holders are advised to dress for the weather and bring a blanket or a low backed seat to sit on. Any visitors with accessibility issues can sit on the hard stand of the amphitheatre accessed from the lower level of the park or alternatively from the viewing area around the top of the Amphitheatre accessed from the car park.