Lineup Announced for The Scoop Festival

The Scoop Festival, which features many free theatre performances, will return for its eighth season this year, running June 2 – October 1 in the sunken, 1000-seater open-air amphitheatre next to City Hall on the South Bank.

The festival will begin with a production of Macbeth (June 3-6) from The Pantaloons, who will blend live music, audience interaction, and puppetry with Shakespeare’s text. The offerings at Scoop in June will also include Sam Bevitt’s I’m A Londoner (June 16-18), in which eight characters share eight stories about life in the city, as well as Unexpected Opera Company’s production of Offenbach’s Orpheus Down Under (June 23-25).

In July, the festival will be given over to music performances before theater returns in August with performances of Toad Hall, based on The Wind in the Willows and Don Juan in Love, taken from the play by José Zorrilla. These pieces will run in repertory August 5 – September 5.

The festival will wind down with a series of free film screenings, to run September 15 – October 1.

For further information, visit: www.whatsonstage.com.