If it’s the first night it must be Monmouth! Was this the first package tour – the two day boat trip down the Wye from Ross to Chepstow was fashionable with the rich and leisured of over 200 years ago, indulging in the pursuit of picturesque scenery.
This production uses extracts from the many journals and guide books written about the tour, poems that it inspired along with appropriate music of the period and has been devised by Opera Playhouse with Chepstow Museum and the talented performers of the Wye Valley.
Relevant sections of the show will be performed at the very same places that the tourists so enjoyed over the weekend of the 8th & 9th June.
Make sure to also check out the performance at the Drill Hall in Chepstow on the 9th!
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During the daytime you can catch for FREE some sections of the show that are relevant to the stopping points, following the company as they take to the road by coach, as a substitute for the boat on the river..
On day 1, Saturday 8th at Ross Church, which many of the tourists visited before setting out on the tour, from 12.30-1pm
Then having experienced the first grand scene of the tour, the magnificent Castle and now destroyed Goodrich court, find them at Goodrich Village Hall from 2.-2.30pm
and then exhausted by the climb up the rock and overawed by the natural splendour and industrial activity from the ironworks, see them at the Royal Lodge Hotel Symonds Yat East from 3.30-4pm
On Day 2, Sunday 9th the tourists meet the rowdy inhabitants of 18th century Brockweir at Mackenzie Hall 12.30-1pm
wonder at the industry and Abbey ruins of Tintern at the Village Hall 2-2.30pm
and the glories of Piercefield at St Arvans Memorial Hall 3.30-4pm.
Entrance Charge
- Adult - £7.50
- Child (Under16 Years) - £5
- Family Ticket (2 Adults + 2 Children) - £20
Date and Times
08-Jun-2013
7.30pm
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