Category: Past Shows

A storm at sea throws twins onto new shores. Rescued and reinvented, there is little time to mourn: Illyria is in the “Roaring Twenties”! Our effervescent production provided a cocktail of confusion, comedy, and cross-dressing, as Viola tried to make sense of who she is, who she loves, and what the hell is going on…

  Sun-drenched post-war Italy was the setting for this famous comedy, centering around celebration, courtship and love. Two contrasting pairs navigated their way through matchmaking and manipulation, influenced by secret schemes and animated by a comedic battle of wits. Key characters Beatrice and Benedick found themselves torn between love and the reluctance to fall into…

After the long dark days of the pandemic, PSF was thrilled to present live theatre once more and to welcome audiences to the woodland wonderland of Wylds Farm for the first time. No better way and no better play to inaugurate the new look festival than with A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The prospect of sitting…

In 2020, the winning entries from our writing competition, Shake it Up, were to be performed at the Festival by our professional cast… but the pandemic had other ideas. So we reinvented the Festival, turning the best scripts into short films and PSF2020 went digital! The Nurse, Juliet, Tybalt, the Apothecary, Friar John, Romeo and…

Our sea-shanty infused ‘The Comedy of Errors’ provided music, dance, merriment and confusion on an epic scale! The cast of twelve added bells and whistles aplenty to Shakespeare’s rumbustious comedy set in the bustling port of Ephesus, where a stranger and his servant searched for their long-lost twin brothers. Did Antipholus and Dromio succeed in…

A corrupt court and at its centre, poised on a knife edge where conscience meets revenge, is Hamlet. Exhorted by his murdered father to take revenge upon his uncle, Hamlet seeks a way through a cabal of intrigue and deception. In his attempt to expose the truth and see justice done, the lines between reason and…

PSF was thrilled to continue its commitment to new writing with the world premiere of Abyss, a play by Associate Playwright, Laura Turner. Inspired by the painting “Ophelia Drowning” by John Everett Millais, Abyss tells the story of a young woman struggling with grief and was the perfect companion piece to Hamlet in 2019. Abyss blended…

We took you on a cinematic, exhilarating ride as captains and kings, heroes and cowards, lords, ladies and low-lifes switched between palaces, camps and battlefields.   To coincide with the centenary of the end of World War I, Shakespeare’s play about war moved to the twentieth century battlefields of France exploring the glory, the horror, the…

Laura Turner’s quirky adaptation had audiences rolling in the aisles during its sell-out runs at Bedales and at Winchester Theatre Royal.  Set in ‘The Shrew’s Tavern’, a pub locked in the 1980s, somewhere to the North of Watford, family and friends gathered to celebrate a marriage with a surprise performance of the bride’s favourite play.…

One of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies with the most witty and wise-cracking heroine of them all, As You Like It was transformed into a bold new production by Jake Smith and Chris Cuming. PSF2017 blended the magic of British music festivals with an al-fresco production of “As You Like It.” The play was set in…