Shakespeare's Rose Theatre, which is Europe's first pop up Shakespearean Theatre, will return to its original site and to a new site at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire in 2019.
York
25 June to 1 September 2019
Blenheim Palace
8 July to 7 September 2019
Both theatres will run simultaneously performing a total of eight Shakespeare plays
In York the new repertoire of plays for 2019 will be Hamlet, Henry V, The Tempest and Twelfth Night.
The Blenheim Palace companies will be reviving the productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth from York in 2018 with new productions of Romeo & Juliet and Richard III
Inspired by the London Rose Playhouse built in 1587 (12 years prior to The Globe), the theatre combines state-of-the-art scaffolding technology, corrugated iron and timber with the historic 13-sided design of a 16th century Shakespearean theatre.
It will house an audience of 900, with 560 seated on three tiered balconies around an open-roofed courtyard, and standing room for 340 'groundlings'.
Outside the theatre, visitors can experience a vibrant, free-to-enter Shakespearean village, offering the finest Yorkshire and Oxfordshire based food and drinks housed in oak-framed, reed-thatched buildings, an array of 'wagon' entertainment, minstrels and an Elizabethan garden.