Summer tour 2021
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
THE SHOWS
This summer, join Scoot for our outdoor, family-friendly, sixty-minute productions of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Comedy of Errors’!
Touring (mainly) cricket clubs in the South East, six actor-musicians present two of Shakespeare’s favourite comedies, with a Scoot ‘spin’!
Get ready for confusion, chaos and costume changes!
Whether you’re 5 or 105, a Shakespeare newcomer or a Bard aficionado – we’ve got something for everyone! So bring a picnic blanket, enjoy the hospitality of your local cricket club and let us entertain you.
HOWZAT!?
"The course of true love never did run smooth..."
Hermia loves Lysander. Lysander loves Hermia. But Demetrius loves Hermia. And Helena loves Demetrius.
They all run into the woods where the mischievous sprite Puck has plenty of tricks in store for them! Meanwhile, the local cricket team is getting together to rehearse a play…
Expect music, magic, and cricket bat sword fights!
“I loved it” THE TELEGRAPH
“Hilarious…accessible for all ages” THE FAMILY STAGE
"I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop"
Two sets of long lost twins. Finally in the same city. They just don’t know it! Separated in childhood, Antipholus of Syracuse is travelling the globe in search of his twin brother. He defies the law by entering the mysterious city of Ephesus, where all Syracusians are banned. Things quickly get spooky when everyone he meets in Ephesus seems to know who he is…
Let the confusion and chaos commence!
Expect madness, mistaken identities and slapstick in Shakespeare’s classic farce!
About Scoot
Scoot was formed last year to tour high quality, professional theatre to non-traditional spaces. Last summer our two-week tour of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ was seen by 2500 people and picked up a 4 star review in The Telegraph.
We are a community-focused company, aiming to add value in the places we work.
We hope you’ll join us for a chat after the performance.
We’ll be offering a very informal Question and Answer session after each show.
This is for anyone who might want to know more about the plays, Shakespeare or theatre in general. It’s completely voluntary of course but we’d love to hear your thoughts, reactions and maybe find out what you’d like to see us do next!
THE CAST
Training: Webber Douglas
Theatre credits include:
A Christmas Carol (Scoot Theatre); Private Lives, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Blithe Spirit (Mill at Sonning); House And Garden (Watermill); Don't Dress For Dinner, Cash On Delivery, Tom Dick & Harry, The Man Upstairs (Southwold); For All Time (Fletcher Prods/Southwark Playhouse); Robin Hood (City Varieties); Across the Dark Water (The Point); A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, Pocket Henry V & The Merchant of Venice (Propeller); The Trial of Jane Fonda (Assembly Rooms); Batman Live (World Tour); Peter Pan (O2 Arena & US tour); Messenger (Shunt); A Number, Dick Barton, Dead Funny (Keswick); Hamlet, The Grapes Of Wrath, Summer Lightning, Chimneys (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); UK tours of The Lady Vanishes, The BFG and Equiano; Othello (Southwark Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet (TNT World Tour); The Taming of the Shrew (Creation); The Focus Group, Flow My Tears The Policeman Said, Crash (The Oval House); The Glass Menagerie, The Arcade (BAC).
DARELL BROCKIS
OBERON/BOTTOM
AOIBHEANN BIDDLE
TITANIA/HELENA/STARVELING
SALLY CHENG
HERMIA/SNUG
MILES HENDERSON
LYSANDER/SNOUT
ROWENA LENNON
PUCK/FLUTE
LUKE THORNTON
DEMETRIUS/QUINCE
MAX HUTCHINSON
DIRECTOR - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM AND
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF SCOOT THEATRE
Training: Originally from Derry in Ireland, Aoibheann trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London.
Theatre credits include:
Marge in Kinky Boots (NCL); Nellie in Some Enchanted Evening (The Barn Theatre); Cricket in Pinocchio (U.K tour); The World Goes Round (the MAC); Pam in Third Wheel (Crazy Coqs/online web series); Lead Singer in Titanic Dance (China tour); Marion in Robin Good (Norwich Playhouse); and Baguette in Beauty and the Beast (Sutton Coldfield), for which she was Musical Director.
Recordings: Third Wheel
Film and TV: 5 Minutes of heaven (Big Fish Films); Spill It (BBC); In Cold Blood (BBC)
Training: Guildford School of Acting
Theatre credits include:
The Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4 The Musical (The Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); The Play that Goes Wrong (West End); A Christmas Carol (Scoot Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scoot Theatre); The Wind in the Willows (Jermyn Street/GSC); The Last of the Pelican Daughters (The Wardrobe Ensemble/Complicte/Bristol Old Vic); A Christmas Carol (Theatre by the Lake); For Services Rendered (Jermyn Street Theatre); Shadowlands (Chichester Festival Theatre); Macbeth (Watermill Theatre); A Christmas Carol (RSC); Love’s Labour’s Lost/ Robin Hood (Guildford Shakespeare Company); Twelfth Night (RSC); Footprints on the Moon (Finborough Theatre);
The Emperor and the Nightingale (Theatre by the Lake); Singin’ In the Rain (Bolton Octagon/Salisbury Playhouse/New Vic).
Training: Miles trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Theatre credits include:
A Christmas Carol (Antic Disposition); The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scoot Theatre); Onwards, an Evening with Drew Gasparini & Friends (The Phoenix Arts Club).
Credits whilst training include: Hanschen in Spring Awakening; Hamlet in Hamlet; Todd in Sweeney Todd; Love and Information; "I Want...": A Musical Review
Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre credits include:
The Jungle Book (Watermill Theatre); The Animals and Children took to the Streets (1927 Productions); Golem (1927 Productions); Frankenstein (Watermill Theatre); Boudica Workshop (Shakespeare’s Globe); Rocks (Arts Theatre West End & Miniaturists); Jekyll and Hyde (Sell A Door); We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (World Tour and West End); The Railway Children, Pride and Prejudice and The Wind in the Willows (Heartbreak Productions); Othello (Swivel Theatre Company); True Love Waits (Box of Tricks).
Television includes: Call the Midwife (Neal Street Productions).
Film includes: Ape (Rogue Films); Junkhearts (Coded Pictures).
Training: Luke trained as an Actor Musician at Rose Bruford College. His many varied instrument skills include: drums, bass, guitar and harmonica. He is delighted to join the case of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Theatre credits include:
Nigel in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole the Musical (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Steven/Tony Sharpe in Love Letters (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); One-Eye in Weapons of the Weak (The Other Palace); Cheever in The Crucible (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Ensemble in Midnight (Union Theatre, Southwark); Edwin in Summer Holiday (Octagon Theatre Bolton and Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Various roles in Beauty and the Beast, The Panto That Nearly Never Was, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin (Theatr Clwyd); Solo Singer in Welsh Musical Theatre Orchestra - A Night at the Musicals (Congress Theatre); Onstage Swing/1st cover Willard in Footloose (UK Tour); Douggie in Dusty (Charing Cross Theatre); Rolf in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium and Sunderland Empire); Frog in The Cunning Little Vixen (Queen Elizabeth Hall).
Luke also sings as part of the Four Harmonies (Jersey Boys Tribute) and has been a soloist at the Royal Albert Hall and Sydney Opera House.
Max trained at Rose Bruford College. He is an actor, director and producer.
Theatre credits include: The Woman In Black (West End); The 39 Steps (Barn Theatre/Theatre Royal Windsor); The Hound of the Baskervilles (ETF/Jermyn Street); A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Comedy of Errors (Propeller); One Man, Two Guvnors (Theatre Royal Haymarket); NT 50 Gala (National Theatre); An Ideal Husband (Chichester Festival Theatre); Anything is Possible If You Think About It Hard Enough (The Vaults); The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith (Jermyn Street); Murder On The Nile (UK Tour).
Film includes: Dream Horse and the Downton Abbey film.
Max was assistant director on the national tour of The Grapes of Wrath and he recently assisted at The Coronet theatre in Notting Hill on their production of The Outsider by Albert Camus, adapted by Ben Okri and winner of the Offie Award for Best Ensemble.
SPECIAL THANKS
SCOOT THEATRE ARE INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL TO EDWARD HALL AND ROER WARREN FOR THE USE OF THEIR ADAPTATIONS
TICKET INFO
PRICES
Adults
18+:
Children 5-18
Years Old:
Family Ticket:
(2 adults and 2 children)
*Under 5s go free
£12
£8
£35
PLEASE NOTE THAT PRICES ARE PER SHOW.
Gates open 45 minutes prior to show start.
Your ticket entitles you to day membership of the cricket club you are visiting.
VENUES and BOOKING
THURSDAY 5th AUGUST
16:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
18:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
FRIDAY 6th AUGUST
16:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
18:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
SATURDAY 7th AUGUST
16:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
18:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
SUNDAY 8th AUGUST
16:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
18:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
THURSDAY 12th AUGUST
16:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
18:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
FRIDAY 13th AUGUST
16:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
18:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
SATURDAY 14TH AND SUNDAY 15th AUGUST
12:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
14:30 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
17:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
TUESDAY 17th AUGUST
14:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
WEDNESDAY 18th AUGUST
WORPLESDON & BURPHAM
CRICKET CLUB
Worplesdon Pavillion,
The Memorial Field, Worplesdon, Guildford
GU3 3RF
16:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
18:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
THURSDAY 19th AUGUST
16:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
18:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
FRIDAY 20th AUGUST
CHESSINGTON
CRICKET CLUB
Sir Francis Barker
Recreation Ground
Leatherhead Rd, Chessington
KT9 2NB
16:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
18:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
SATURDAY 21st AUGUST
15:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
17:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
SUNDAY 22nd AUGUST
12:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
14:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
WEDNESDAY 1st SEPTEMBER
16:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
18:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
THURSDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER
16:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
18:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
FRIDAY 3rd SEPTEMBER
CHESSINGTON
CRICKET CLUB
Sir Francis Barker Recreation Ground
Leatherhead Rd, Chessington
KT9 2NB
16:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
18:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
TUESDAY 24th AUGUST
EAST MOLESEY
CRICKET CLUB
The Memorial Cricket Ground
Graburn Way, East Molesey
KT8 9AL
12:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
14:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
WEDNESDAY 25th AUGUST
SHEPPERTON
CRICKET CLUB
Manor Park, Russell Rd
(entrance opposite Dunboe Place), Shepperton
TW17 9HB
16:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
18:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
THURSDAY 26th AUGUST
16:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
18:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
FRIDAY 27th AUGUST
16:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
18:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
SUNDAY 29th AUGUST
16:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
18:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
SATURDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER
BLACKHEATH (SURREY)
CRICKET CLUB
Tangley Pavilion, Blackheath
Guildford, Surrey
GU4 8RB
16:00 - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
18:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
SUNDAY 5th SEPTEMBER
14:00 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
F.A.Qs
Can I bring a chair?
Please do!
You're welcome to bring picnic chairs and blankets. Seating areas are allocated on a "first come, first served" basis on the day.
Can I buy tickets on the Door?
All tickets must be purchased in advance.
Do I have to stay for the chat at the end?
Of course not! We’d love it if you did!
Let's talk about the weather...
Part of the fun of outdoor performances is embracing the Great British Weather! In our experience we’d say it's best to come prepared for all types. There is the possibility that we may have to stop and re-start the show and we will do everything we can to get to the end of the performance! Trust us – after the last year everyone has had – our actors are keen to perform!
On very rare occasions, it may not be possible for us to complete the performance (this only happened once last year – so we rearranged the date). But, we will never cancel a performance before the advertised start time. We know from experience how quickly bad weather can clear up and give us the perfect gap for our sixty-minute show!
Unfortunately, as with most outdoor companies, we are unable to offer a refund in the event of a cancellation due to the weather, however, we will endeavour to rearrange a new date for the performance at the same venue and you will be entitled to exchange your ticket to that new date. If you are unable to make this date or we are unable to rearrange, then you will be entitled to exchange your ticket for a performance at any other cricket club venue on our tour list.
The best way to do this is to contact us at scoottheatreuk@gmail.com, stating your original booking order number, name and preferred date and venue you wish to exchange to.
Updated Covid Protocols
Following the government’s decision to release restrictions on Monday 19 July, we have updated our Covid protocols accordingly. We are aware we no longer need to enforce a number of these by law, but we are keen to ensure that safety is our top priority, particularly during this time when some people may not feel confident jumping straight back to ‘normal’.
Our safety measures include:
The fact we are an outdoor event.
We will be distancing groups by 1m. There is flexibility within the audience space, so that if you wish to sit further from
others then this is possible.
Face coverings will be optional. You are very welcome to wear one should you so wish, particularly in the clubhouse/indoor spaces.
Hand sanitiser stations will be available.
All tickets are E-tickets.
There will be regular cleaning of toilet and bar areas.
Contactless payment is available for food/drink. However, all tickets should be purchased in advance.
What about accessibility?
If you would like to know more about access at a particular venue, or would like to make us aware of your specific requirements, please do get in touch either via scoottheatreuk@gmail.com or any of the options on our Contact Page
What if Government COVID-19 policy changes and makes performances impossible?
In this case all tickets are refundable or transferable to future dates.
FOR ALL ENQUIRIES, PLEASE CONTACT SCOOT THEATRE AT: