Agecroft Hall is a Tudor manor built in Lancashire that was disassembled, shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to Virginia, and reassembled. It served as a private residence for a bit and is now a museum of 16th century England.
This will definitely be the fanciest place we’ve ever performed, so put on a tie or something and try not to embarrass us.
We’ll be performing Much Ado on the first and third Fridays in June, and Henry V on the second and fourth Fridays. Each performance will have a different cast which means a different creative direction for the story as a whole.
These shows will be ticketed and outdoors, two things we said we’d never do. But the chance to perform at Agecroft was too good of an opportunity to pass up. You can call this our Metallica’s Black Album moment if you want, but you may wanna review the track list for that record before you talk trash.
To buy tickets visit Agecroft’s website
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All our cuts run 90 minutes and can be staged with a cast of seven to ten actors.
Information about individual scripts — including dramaturgical notes about how we cut our scripts and what we’ve removed from each play, as well as doubling charts, props, and fights — can be found on the first two pages of each cut.
If you have additional questions about these cuts, email us.
Texts
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Antony y Cleopatra (bilingual en/es)
- As You Like It
- Coriolanus
- Hamlet
- Henry IV (Conflated)
- Henry V
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Macbeth
- Macbeth (60min)
- Measure for Measure
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Sonnets
- Titus Andronicus
- Twelfth Night
- The Winter’s Tale
Production Resources
June 12th, 2026 | Richmond, VA
June 5th, 2026 | Richmond, VA
April 25th, 2026 | North Adams, MA — Part of North County Shakespeare Festival
March 29th, 2026 | Atlanta, GA
April 29th, 2026 | North Adams, MA — Part of North County Shakespeare Festival
November 16th, 2026 | Raleigh, NC
November 16th, 2025 | Raleigh, NC
November 18th, 2025 | Richmond, VA
October 12th, 2025 | London, England
October 28th, 2025 | Somerville, MA
November 15th, 2025 | Raleigh, NC
July 23rd, 2025 | Lisbon, Portugal — Co-Production with Teatro Soco
August 16th, 2025 | East Village NY — Part of the Little Shakespeare Fest at Frigid NYC
June 2nd, 2025 | North Adams, MA — Part of North County Shakespeare Festival
May 28th, 2025 | North Adams, MA — Part of North County Shakespeare Festival
April 27th, 2025 | Raleigh, NC — Co-Production with Atlas Stage Collective
April 26th, 2025 | Raleigh, NC — Co-Production with Atlas Stage Collective
March 18th, 2025 | Somerville, MA — Co-Production with The Sonnet Man
February 19th, 2025 | East Harlem, NY — Co-Production with The Shakespeare Forum
The Tread On Kings Tour
December 29th, 2024 | Columbia, SC
December 31st, 2024 | Raleigh, NC
January 2nd, 2025 | Richmond, VA
January 4th, 2025 | Washington, DC
September 29th, 2024 | East Harlem, NY — Co-Production with The Shakespeare Forum
May 27th, 2024 | North Adams, MA — Co-Production with Vicious Mole Theatre Collective
October 15th, 2023 | Northampton, MA
October 16th, 2023 | East Harlem, NY
Co-Production with The Shakespeare Forum
October 22nd, 2023 | Atlanta, GA
May 1st, 2022 | Columbia, SC
May 29th, 2022 | Richmond, VA
July 3rd, 2022 | Northampton, MA
December 6th, 2021 | Richmond, VA
November 25th, 2019 | Richmond, VA
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Companies:
Backroom Shakespeare Project
The Bridge Ensemble
Cod and Karp
The Container Globe
Incite Shakespeare Company
Junkyard Shakespeare
The Offing Lab
Teatro Socco
Theatre in the Open
The Vanguard
Vicious Mole Theatre Collective
Artistic Associates:
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We specialize in the historical context of Shakespeare’s plays as well as rhetoric. We believe the plays most come alive when you look at them how actors and audiences in 1600 would have looked at them. We would love to help you teach any of the plays (or sonnets!) either in a literature or a theatre classroom, or to give a workshop for your actors with monologue and scene work.