Illyria’s outdoor theatre returns to Eastnor Castle on Sunday 10th August with yet another Roald Dahl classic ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’. Following their enormous success and sell-out tour, Illyria return with a show full of larger-than-life characters, plenty to join in with and just a twist of malicious fun!
It is the first day of half-term, Grandma is coming to stay, and George is going to have to give
up his bedroom for her. It wouldn’t be so bad if Grandma were a nice Grandma. But George’s Grandma is horrible. “George do this! George do that!” “George, is it time for my medicine?” What’s the point of taking medicine, George wonders, when it’s not doing her any good, and it certainly isn’t making her any nicer? So he decides to concoct his own medicine for Grandma which he gives Grandma on a spoon – with hilarious results! The performance is guaranteed to send you through the roof!
The performance will be on the lower terrace overlooking the lake at 3 pm, gates open at 2 pm. Approximately 1hr 35mins (including a 20 mins interval). Please bring your own seating/rug, warm clothes and a picnic. Soft drinks and ice cream will be available.
Please click here to book tickets.
Only just a few weeks ago we received a filming enquiry with the following brief:
Blinkbox wanted a castle for a marketing campaign for Season 4 of Game of Thrones. They would like to hold a genuine wedding in the style of the hugely popular TV show, Game of Thrones. The event will consist of a one day photography shoot at the location followed by a genuine wedding ceremony for one lucky couple inside the location.
Taylor Herring, the company behind the campaign for Game of Thrones season 3 had 35’000’000 million hits on Twitter within 48hrs of it going live!
I googled Game of Thrones and I was still none the wiser, I am not a fan, but have since found out it has a real cult following for this fantasy bloodthirsty show.
Eastnor Castle fitted the brief and the crew arrived last Thursday. The wedding ceremony took place on Friday with a local couple from Hereford. It was all about make-up, costumes, wolves and a white horse! All quite surreal in a strange way, Nick our groundsman had a bit of a surprise when he came up the drive on his tractor to be confronted by 2 wolves guarding the courtyard. (The ‘wolves’ were only 25% wolf, but certainly looked the part and could not bark). He managed to take these pictures on his phone.
The Eastnor Castle Game of Thrones wedding.
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by Sarah Roberts