After our much-praised production of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin at the Minack Theatre in August 2023, we are delighted to announce we will be returning to the cliffs of Cornwall in the summer of 2025 with Shakespeare in Love! 

Young Will Shakespeare has writer’s block and needs some inspiration. His ideas for his new comedy, Romeo and Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter, are less than genius and the owner of the theatre is under scrutiny from the producer, to whom he owes money. Meanwhile, across town, a rival theatre performs Will’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and heaven forbid, they added a dog, all without his permission!

The high-spirited young lady, Viola De Lesseps, who knows Will’s work very well, wishes to be on the stage. This, of course, is against the law in Elizabethan England, but it doesn’t stop her from trying. Disguised as a young man and going by the name Thomas Kent, Viola attends auditions for Will’s next play, the very one he is struggling to finish.

Is she the inspiration he’s been searching for?

Originally produced on the West End by Disney Theatrical Productions & Sonia Friedman Productions,
directed by Declan Donnellan, and designed by Nick Ormerod