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| Tolethorpe Hall, Little Casterton, Rutland (By Dave Crosby - 22 June 2013 - CC BY-SA 3.0) |
This is the venue of the Rutland Open Air Theatre, the 'home' of the Stamford Shakespeare Company.
This June they will be performing 'A Midsummer's Night Dream' and 'Much Ado About Nothing'.
The first manor house on the site was built by the Norman de Tolethorpe family in the 11th century The setting of the hall overlooks parkland with the River Gwash running near by.
I cannot say that I have ever visited the hall, but before we left the area in the early 1960s I had helped to clean out the Gwash further upstream. I also played cricket against the Tolethorpe Park team.
The Stamford Shakespeare Company acquired the then near derelict hall in 1977. I'll confess that we have also never been fortunate enough to attend any of their performances.
For more details of this year's programme visit http://stamfordshakespeare.co.uk/ and don't forget to book dinner in Tolethorpe Hall itself.
