Jenny Wren Productions is a Gloucestershire-based professional theatre company, formed in 2004. In the summer we can be found performing classic plays under the stars at open-air venues around the county, including Berkeley Castle, Cowley Manor and Highnam Court near Gloucester. The autumn usually takes us on another tour, often with a new play, to small theatres and rural venues. We have strong links with the Cheltenham Everyman Theatre and perform there regularly. We have toured schools, libraries and care homes with Theatre in Education projects, incorporating educational workshops, and in 2020, we adapted! We created radio drama and an online play - but we are looking forward to creating live shows again later in 2021 :)

The company comprises a pool of actors, musicians, designers, stage managers, producer and director. Many of our projects have been funded by Arts Council England and with others we have raised money for charities including the Pied Piper Appeal at Gloucester Hospital and the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. And whilst doing all of this, we have a lot of fun!

"One of the funniest, quirkiest bundles of talent ever to lighten Gloucestershire's doorstep" - Cotswold Life


Wednesday 31 January 2024


William Shakespeare's

TWELFTH NIGHT

"If music be the food of love", to start,
A small band of players take many parts
In this tale of mistaken identity.
Unrequited love, drunken jollity,
Live music, yellow stockings and a fight
Make for the most entertaining of nights.
There's pathos too, and joy and sadness
And moments to fill the heart with gladness.
Join Jenny Wren Productions for some fun
In the open-air, under "the glorious sun".

Please bring a blanket or chair and appropriate clothing - this is an outdoor performance.

Fri Aug 2nd – Cerney House Gardens, North Cerney, Cirencester, GL7 7BX
7pm - gardens open 5.30pm for picnics and Café open
Box Office: Everyman Theatre 01242 572573 
Jenny Wren Production's Twelfth Night (everymantheatre.org.uk)
Tickets £15 (£10 under 16s) 

Sat Aug 3rd – The Folk of Gloucester, 99-103 Westgate Street, GL1 2PG
Performance 7pm - grounds open 6pm for picnics and licensed Café open
Box Office: Everyman Theatre 01242 572573 
Jenny Wren Production's Twelfth Night (everymantheatre.org.uk)
Tickets £14 

Sun Aug 4th – Sue Ryder, Leckhampton Court Hospice, Cheltenham, GL53 0QJ
Performance 6.30pm - grounds open 5.30pm for picnics and refreshments on sale
Box Office: Everyman Theatre 01242 572573 
Jenny Wren Production's Twelfth Night (everymantheatre.org.uk)
Tickets £15 (£10 under 16s)

Fri Aug 9th and Sat Aug 10th – Museum in the Park, Stroud, GL5 4AF
Performances 7pm - grounds open at 6pm for refreshments or picnics in the park
Box Office: Everyman Theatre 01242 572573 
Jenny Wren Production's Twelfth Night (everymantheatre.org.uk)
Tickets £14 (£10 under 16s)
Venue info & accessible parking: 01453 763394 Museum in the Park

Sun Aug 11th - Cotswold Sculpture Park, The Paddock, Somerford Keynes, Cirencester, GL7 6FE
Performance 6.30pm - grounds open 5.30pm for picnics and Café open
Box Office: Everyman Theatre 01242 572573 
Jenny Wren Production's Twelfth Night (everymantheatre.org.uk)
Tickets £16 (£12 under 16s) 

Sun Aug 18th Snowshill Manor, Broadway, WR12 7JU
Performance 6.30pm - grounds open 5.30pm for picnics and refreshments on sale
Box Office: Everyman Theatre 01242 572573 
Jenny Wren Production's Twelfth Night (everymantheatre.org.uk)
Tickets £17 (£10 under 18s)

Sat Aug 24th – Priory Park, Malvern, WR14 3HA
Performances 3pm and 7pm - grounds open 2pm and 6pm for picnics
Box Office: Malvern Theatres 01684 892277 
Twelfth Night in Priory Park - Malvern Theatres (malvern-theatres.co.uk)
Tickets £16 (£12 under 16s) including booking fee
Performance in the Coach House Theatre if wet

Sun Aug 25th – The Tuckwell Amphitheatre, Dean Close School, Cheltenham, GL51 6HE
 Performance 7.30pm - grounds open 6.30pm for picnics and refreshments on sale
Box Office: Bacon Theatre 01242 258002 
Twelfth Night (ticketsolve.com)
Tickets £17 (£15 concs.) 

Thurs Aug 29th – Grittleton House, Chippenham. SN14 6AP
Performance 7pm - grounds open 6pm for picnics
Box Office: Everyman Theatre 01242 572573 
Jenny Wren Production's Twelfth Night (everymantheatre.org.uk)
Tickets £15

Fri Aug 30th – Ashley Manor Prep School, 252 London Road, Cheltenham, GL52 6NR
 Performance 6.30pm - grounds open 6pm for picnics
Box Office: Everyman Theatre 01242 572573 
Jenny Wren Production's Twelfth Night (everymantheatre.org.uk)
Tickets £15 (£10 under 16s) 

Sat Aug 31st – Tewkesbury Abbey, Church Street, Tewkesbury, GL20 5RZ
Performance 6pm - grounds open 5pm for picnics
Box Office: Everyman Theatre 01242 572573 
Jenny Wren Production's Twelfth Night (everymantheatre.org.uk)
Tickets £15 (£10 students/under 16s) 

Sun Sept 1st - Berkeley Castle, GL13 9PJ
Performance 6pm - grounds open 5pm for picnics
Box Office: Everyman Theatre 01242 572573 
Jenny Wren Production's Twelfth Night (everymantheatre.org.uk)
Tickets £16 (£13 concs.) 

Fri Sept 13th – The Elms School, Colwall, nr. Malvern, WR13 6EF
Performance 6.30pm - grounds open 5.45pm for picnics
Box Office: Everyman Theatre 01242 572573 
Jenny Wren Production's Twelfth Night (everymantheatre.org.uk)
Tickets £16 (£10 under 16s)
Parking - follow signs on arrival. If wet, performance in the Ashby Theatre 

This will be Jenny Wren Productions' 20th anniversary and 20th open-air show, so it promises to be a special one, and we hope you can join us!

Wednesday 10 May 2023

PAST PRODUCTIONS - SUMMER 2023


 Vincent Crummles' Acting Company

- or rather - 

JENNY WREN PRODUCTIONS

presents...


The Life and Adventures of

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY


featuring...

The reprehensible Uncle Ralph The despicable Wackford Squeers “The Infant Phenomenon” Ninetta Crummles not forgetting Nicholas Nickleby himself his unfortunate friend, Smike And many more of Dickens’ most weird and wonderful characters

 

Left destitute on the death of their father, the Nickleby family are forced to give up a life of contentment in the countryside. The ensuing adventures take Nicholas all over, from Devon to Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire, via a chance encounter with a troupe of strolling players. This is a tale of twists and turns, ups and downs, cruelty and hardship, but also friendship, kindness and love.

 

Will Uncle Ralph get his comeuppance? Will there be romance along the way? Will Smike remember all his lines?

 

Find out, by catching Jenny Wren Productions at a beautiful open-air venue near you, hot off the heels of their national tour of Little Women and last summer’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

 

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”