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9th April 2024

The Comedy of Errors

Pedalling from venue to venue with all of their set, props and costumes on the back of their bikes, the HandleBards are a four-strong troupe of actors who are spending the summer bringing environmentally sustainable Shakespeare to venues across the UK.

Join the troupe at The Charterhouse for a bicycle-powered production of Shakespeare’s ‘The Comedy of Errors’ like you’ve never seen before.

When two sets of estranged twins are brought together on the same island, this classic comedy takes hold, with mistaken identity, music and manic costume changes a plenty.

This is an outdoor production, so please bring a chair or blanket to sit on, a picnic to dig into, and dress for the weather!

★★★★★- “Explodes with energy and is a genuine treat from start to finish” – The Stage, on the HandleBards’ Twelfth Night

Visit www.handlebards.com to find out more!

9th April 2024

All’s Well That Ends Well

We are delighted to announce that we will be back this summer to celebrate our seventh anniversary with a new production of All’s Well That Ends Well with a fairytale twist and gypsy swing music.

Bring your picnic, wine, sunglasses, pac-a-mac and participatory spirit and let’s make a fairytale wish: All’s Well That Ends Well!

The production will be directed by Sioned Jones.

The performance will begin promptly at 7pm and will be over by approximately 9pm. We encourage all guests to picnic before the show. We will contact you with details of bar and catering facilities before the event.

The Charterhouse Museum, shop and chapel will be open for you to have a browse before and after the show, you are also welcome to use the Museum’s toilet facilities.

Dame Judi Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA, Patron of Shakespeare in the Squares says, “A beautiful & complex play rarely performed, summed up by the exquisite line… “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good & ill together.”

16th March 2023

Meet the Monks and the Nuns of Medieval England

Join us for this free drop-in session for a fascinating insight into the wonderful world of the Cloister and Abbey here at Charterhouse, founded in 1371.

Visitors will be taken back in time when Abbeys, Priories and Monasteries covered the land, all home to different Orders of Monks and Nuns.

Find out the similarities & differences between the Orders.

Do YOU know what differentiates a Carthusian from a Dominican, or a Benedictine from a Franciscan? Many Orders of Monks and Nuns will be represented, including some Military Orders such as the infamous Templars.

There will be an array of fine artefacts, objects for handling and discussion, ‘Know your Saints’, Books of Hours and the Holy Office of 8 Services, a Medieval Altar and the daily life of a Carthusian brother at Charterhouse.

15th March 2023

Let me Draw Your Portrait

Be inspired by our exhibition in the Great Chamber, portrait drawing workshop taught by art teacher, Julia Deering. We will tour the exhibition and look at the colours, poses, styles of clothing, and techniques of depicting character. Working from references from the exhibition, participants will then develop some small portrait drawings of friends and families. Suitable for those with no experience of drawing.

18th January 2023

A Portrait fit for a Queen, family workshop

Draw the Queen Red. Queen Elizabeth I has arrived at the Charterhouse on the way to her coronation. Visitors will enjoy an audience with the future Queen and discover why she needs her portrait painted. But don’t forget, the portrait needs to look it’s best — it needs to portray her majesty with splendour, power, and, of course, beauty. Come and draw a portrait fit for a queen!

Ages: 8+

Cost: 1 adult + 1 child £2 / 1 adult + 2 children £4 / 1 adult + 3 children £6