Amateur dramatic group, The Pantiles Players, will present Shakespeare’s ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ in the charming walled courtyard of Runcie Court at Salomons.

The play is believed by many scholars to be Shakespeare’s first play and expresses themes that are revisited in his later plays. The over-riding theme of the play is love and focuses on the relationship of two childhood friends, Valentine and Proteus (the two gentlemen of the title) and that between Valentine and Silvia and Proteus and Julia.

The Pantiles Players is an amateur dramatic group originally formed in 1942 to provide local wartime entertainment. They were first invited to play on the Pantiles bandstand in 1983 and have performed a play, usually Shakespeare, there every year since. Read more