The festival’s inaugural season was the summer of 2022 when A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night alternated performances in Kate Gould Park in front of the iconic Bandstand for two weeks. Approximately 300 people attended each performance. In 2023 we presented As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing and last season, 2024, we produced Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest. Our audiences have grown and we are now preparing for our 4th summer of high-quality Shakespeare plays with Othello and Taming of the Shrew alternating the last two weeks of July 2025.
Our Productions feature traditional Elizabethan costumes, a modern sound system and carefully cut scripts to provide an accessible and immersive evening of
theatre for all ages. Many of our players and technicians are returning for their 4th season.
We rely on the financial support of Individual and local Business Contributors. Your generous donations make it possible for us to continue providing quality performances.
Bring your blankets and your folding chairs just like Friday nights with our beloved historic Chatham Band concerts. The performers and the production staff are combination of pre-professional staff, designers and actors from university theatre programs, local talent and a small select group of professional actors.
CCSFC
The Chatham Drama Guild
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