Playing Out For The Summer – open air theatre at Lytham Hall this Summer

Crowd outside Lytham Hall at one of last years events

Tickets are selling well for the expanded summer season of five open air plays at Lytham Hall. 

Chapterhouse Theatre Company will launch the season on Sunday 17th June at 6.00 pm, the first weekend of their four month summer tour. The company present Richard Main’s production of Louisa Alcott’s popular novel ‘Little Women’, adapted for the stage by the award-winning Laura Turner.

Fylde coast fans will then welcome the return of Illyria, after three acclaimed shows last summer, as artistic director Oliver Gray presents Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’ at 6.00 pm on Sunday 8 July. Illyria will be back for a double header weekend as they stage ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ on Saturday 18 August at 7.30 pm, followed on the Sunday by Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ at 6.00 pm. They are expecting a capacity audience on the Bank Holiday Sunday afternoon, 26th August, for the season’s finale of ‘The Adventures of Doctor Dolittle’.

Julian Wilde who is organising the season of plays is delighted with the balance of the 2018 programme, he said ‘I feel the variety of this summer’s programme will have a strong appeal. People are pleased that they can book online as well as at our six local outlets and I am confident that we are going to have a well-supported season.’

Tickets – Adult £14, Concessions – Senior/student  £11,   Schoolchild  £7.

Local ticket outlets (book in person or by phone):
Lytham Hall 736652
Lowther Pavilion, Lytham  794221
Plackitt & Booth Booksellers, Clifton Street, Lytham 796958
Stringers Homelife, Haven Road, Lytham 740700
Storytellers Inc, The Crescent, St. Annes 781690
Bennetts Bakery, Woodlands Road, Ansdell 736318.