Initial line up for summer 2024 MOREoutdoor events announced
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre reveals initial MOREoutdoor events showcasing drag, musical theatre and Shakespeare for Summer 2024.
DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR
Sunday 7 July, 10am & 1pm, Sunday 14 July, 10am & 1pm
Drag Queen Story Hour: The Theatrical Experience is here! Join Aida H Dee The Storytime Drag Queen as she takes you on a magical journey through a world of colourful characters that will make smiles wrap around faces, hilarious antics that will leave everyone in stitches, and a drag queen that just cannot remember where she placed her spare wig! Written by, produced by, and performed by The Storytime Drag Queen herself known as Aida H Dee.
SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR – LIVE! Monday 8 July, 7.45pm
Best-selling author Allie Esiri will be joined by a star-studded cast including Helena Bonham Carter, Paul Chahidi, Derek Jacobi, Damian Lewis, Stephen Mangan, Tracy Ann Oberman, Tony Robinson, Danny Sapani, Samantha Spiro, Luke Thompson, Indira Varma, Samuel West, Olivia Williams and Susan Wokoma for a hugely entertaining evening based on her anthology: Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year. Allie Esiri and friends will guide you on a journey through the Shakespeare you know and the best bits you don’t. There will be speeches and scenes performed by actors with a special connection to his work and to the theatre itself.
MUSICALS MAYHEM Sunday 15 September, 7.30pm
Imagine a Music Box, a Chocolate Box, a Juke Box, and a Dress-Up Box all collide and burst into life… their name would be Le Gateau Chocolat! Your favourite Black, bearded, and bass singing drag icon is back with an enchanted evening of Musical Theatre madness. From Follies to Frozen, Sound of Music to Sister Act - Gateau is ready to feed you every coco-covered Chocolat showtune in his box. Expect a mountain of laughs as Gateau crams every single musical you know and love into an hour of high kicks, high drag, high glamour, and ...depending on which brownie this is… a highly hilarious selection of Le Gateau Chocolat all sorts.
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s 2024 season also includes William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (Until 8 June), directed by Owen Horsley set against the heat of the Mediterranean sun. In the daytime for those aged 4+ and their families is the new musical version of Roald Dahl’s picture book, The Enormous Crocodile (17 May – 8 June). This is followed by the stage adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic story, The Secret Garden (15 June – 20 July) in a new version by Holly Robinson and Anna Himali Howard, and directed by Howard. The season concludes with Fiddler on the Roof (27 July – 21 September) in a new production directed by Jordan Fein with book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.
Further Information: Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre