THEATRE TOURS & RADIO DRAMAS 2021-2022
The Gardening Times –Stage Show
The stage adaptation of our long running radio drama comes to the stage and will première at the Cheltenham Everyman Theatre’s Irving Studio Theatre in September 2022.
Tour Dates :
28th & 29th September 2022 – Cheltenham Everyman https://www.everymantheatre.org.uk/shows/the-gardening-times/
1st October 2022 – Museum in The Park Walled Garden Pavilion Stroud
8th October 2022 – Coach House Theatre Malvern
https://www.malvern-theatres.co.uk/whats-on/the-gardening-times/
in the recording studios of BHBN (from left to right)
Yet More Gardening Times – Returns in 20 radio episodes March 2022 to July 2022. To be broadcasted on Internet Radio Broadcaster, BHBN.
Jane Austen and The Cheltonians – Nominated for the 29th Writers’ Guild of Great Britain’s Best Play Award (2020/21)
September 2021 Bath Jane Austen Festival – https://www.janeaustenfestivalbath.co.uk/events/jane-austen-and-the-cheltonians-theatrical/
Gabriella Shillingford (Eloisa Fairweather) and Abigail Halley (Jane Austen)
The Gardening Times
Until July 2021 BHBN Independent Birmingham Internet Radio Broadcasting Station
More Gardening Times
Until May 2021 BHBN Independent Birmingham Internet Radio Broadcasting Station
For more information please see below
RADIO THEATRE LAUNCHED 2020-2021
MORE GARDENING TIMES MAY 2021
Working again with BHBN we will be producing More Gardening Times co-written by the Summerfield Sisters, Caroline and Angela Summerfield, performed by Ellie Darvill. These will be broadcasted through the month of May 2021 on weekdays at 10.40 a.m. and can be listened to via the internet or by downloading the APP onto your mobile phone by visiting BHBN’s website- or listen via an internet radio, whatever you decide to do, we hope you listen and enjoy.
CHRISTMAS PLAY FOR RADIO THEATRE DECEMBER 2020
Working again with Birmingham Hospital Broadcasting Network we will be producing a Christmas radio play version of Myself And Other Parts by Caroline Summerfield and starring mother and son Birmingham actors, Ellie Darvill and Arthur Darvill. Inspired by the film Miracle on 34th Street, expect much laughter and fun. The two broadcast dates on BHBN will be confirmed shortly on BHBN’s website or follow us on Facebook – see link opposite.
THE GARDENING TIMES SEPTEMBER 2020-JULY 2021
Supporting our NHS, patients, staff, relatives and the wider community, Natura Contemporary Theatre have developed the radio dramatisations of The Gardening Times by Caroline and Angela Summerfield in twenty episodes for broadcast on the Birmingham Hospital Broadcasting Network. Broadcasted daily on weekdays at 10.40 a.m until July 2021.
Visit BHBN’s website for more information, to listen live and to download the APP onto your mobile phone.
The Gardening Times is delightfully whimsical and follows the creation of a garden, led by the lady of the house with the doubtful assistance of her Head Gardener,Under Gardener and He-who-cuts the grass. It is read by the actress Ellie Darvill.
Our thanks to Arts Council England for their generous support in making this possible through the award of a National Lottery Project Grant.
COVID -19 BROADCAST OF THE TREE CHARTER TAPESTRY
AVAILABLE TO LISTEN TO NOW
Go to : anchor.fm/caroline-rose-summerfield
Recorded live at the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham 2017
If you have enjoyed the broadcast please do contact us. We are seeking donations to help support our website and our pre-production work as we seek to gear ourselves up for 2021.
Please donate to help support the Natura Contemporary Theatre Company
Thank you for listening to the performance of ‘The Tree Charter Tapestry’
£2.00
PAST THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
Jane Austen & The Cheltonians (Or Emma Part II )
by Caroline Summerfield
“A must for all fans of Jane Austen“
(Review by Kattie Preedy for ‘Glos Info Online Magazine‘)
2019 Anthology Extend Literary Festival Cheltenham
2019 7th Stroud Theatre Festival
2020 Everyman Theatre Cheltenham
2020 Churchill Theatre Bromley London
Trailer for Jane Austen & The Cheltonians
The Tree Charter Tapestry
by Caroline Summerfield
A play with music and songs performed in an extend version of the play
“A Modern Day Midsummers’ Night Dream” (local theatre critic)
2018 Canwood Open-air-Theatre
2017 Everyman Theatre Cheltenham
Albert Wiggett performed by Mark Topping
(Deer Spirit)
An Honest Politician
by Caroline Summerfield
“Sheer literary brilliance” (local theatre critic)
2018 6th Stroud Theatre Festival
Myself And Other Parts
by Caroline Summerfield
A Christmas play inspired by the film Miracle on 34th Street
“Bill Cronshaw has pitch-perfect comic timing”
(local theatre critic)
2017 Holst Museum Cheltenham
2017 Suffolk Anthology Cheltenham
Natura Contemporary Theatre Company (incorporating the Writers and Directors Workshop) - Drama for Radio and Stage 