Castle Park Theatre
Live Theatre in Castle Park, Colchester
What better way to start off Castle Park Theatre than with the greatest story ever told. Expect sea battles, feuding friends and of course that famous chariot race, all performed by just four actors. How are we going to do it? Buy a ticket and you’ll find out.
A funny and touching play about friendship and creativity as a writers’ group deal with their own lives by writing a stage play about the life of the woman who burnt Colchester to the ground.
Old King Coel is not a merry old soul. He called for his bowl, that didn’t help. He called for his pipe, that made him worse, and don’t even go there when his three fiddle players started to perform. Can a tailor from Colchester, with his magical needle and thread, help?
Shakespeare’s political thriller gets a unique modern-day twist as the conspiracy and plotting is plucked from the villas and temples of Ancient Rome and placed into the corridors and classrooms of an English secondary school.
Seven mini-performances in seven different parts of Colchester’s Town Hall tell the history of our town over the last 70 years. Each performance has been created following a series of storytelling sessions with seven different community groups.
Little Star merges the story of The Taylor sisters, who wrote Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, and Humpty Dumpty, an egg that dreams of being a canon. The final of Thomas R Edwards’ ‘Colchester’ trilogy follows the critically acclaimed shows, The Gift and last year’s The Haywain.
