SHAKESPEARE AT THE TOWERS
We are an amateur Cambridgeshire theatre company providing near-professional quality productions of Shakespeare’s plays. We perform in the open-air for two weeks every summer in a specially created theatre in Queen Katherine’s Knot Garden at Buckden Towers. We have won numerous NODA awards for our productions, our technical expertise and even our show programmes.
Shakespeare at the Towers is one of the few amateur theatre companies in the country who offer a professionally captioned evening for those who are deaf or hearing impaired and as part of our charitable status, we use our profits to fund bursaries and help support local theatre and theatre-makers.
OUR HISTORY
Between 1959 and 2024, we were known as Shakespeare at The George and across those 65 years we entertained tens of thousands of people with our acclaimed open-air productions of Shakespeare’s plays, held in the courtyard of The George Hotel in Huntingdon.
After Greene King, the owners of The George Hotel, terminated the contract following our sell-out production of Hamlet in the summer of 2024, we were fortunate enough to find a new home at Buckden Towers, just 4 miles down the road.
The move to Buckden Towers allowed us to continue to perform open air Shakespeare in an authentic venue which has its own fascinating history and offers an equally immersive theatre-going experience.
To celebrate the move, we renamed ourselves Shakespeare at the Towers (SatT) to better reflect the partnership and the new location.
get involved
We love to welcome new performers, directors and backstage / technical crew to our company so if you are interested in getting involved, please get in touch by emailing us at info@satt.org.uk.
satt trust
Shakespeare at the Towers is a registered charity, loaning equipment and costumes as well as disbursing funds annually to local groups and individuals to hep further theatre and theatre skills in the region. For more information click here.
The satg book
In 2025, to coincide with the first SatT production at Buckden Towers, our archiving team of Lizzie Elliot and Jacquie Spencer, lead by John Shippey, completely updated the fantastic 60th anniversary book we published in 2019 to create a final, complete History of Shakespeare at The George.
Featuring new cover artwork, updated articles and an additional 16 pages crammed full of quotes, stories, memories and pictures, the Complete History of SaTG also now includes full details of each of the shows we performed between 2019 – 2024.
This brilliantly researched 146 page book is priced at just £20 (+postage) and if you would like a copy, please send an email to info@satt.org.uk.
