This halloween late saw a nurse, a sailor and a ship’s captain met in the atmospheric Painted Hall to play music and tell ghost stories as the mists rolled in. Secrets were revealed and a plot of ghostly revenge was uncovered.  It ran for four sold-out performances in October 2020.

At the same time we started First Sundays (which is back up and running this spring and summer) where on the first Sunday of every month you can bump into characters from the site’s past as they bring both it and their times to life.

During half-term in February 2021 we created a new online interactive experience bringing the tudor palace at Greenwich back to life and introducing families to Elizabeth of York and her friends in the frenzied run up to her son Prince Arthur’s marriage to Katherine of Aragon.

In collaboration with Time Will Tell Theatre we provide the 2021 daily live interpretation and public engagement at Dover Castle – events include Dover at War (WWII), Henry and Becket, Knight’s Quest, and Hunting and Harvest.

As part of EH’s ‘Kid’s Rule’ half-term theme this June, we’re staging an improvised show where the audience decide on the truth of how and why Stonehenge was built and the actors make it happen.

As part of EH’s members week in April 2021 we were asked to do two special versions of our interactive online shows featuring Lady Margaret Beaufort and her friends, the first set at Kenilworth Castle and the second at Eltham Palace.

June half-term sees us presenting a brand new take on knight schools –  ‘Knight School: the show’ is an interactive socially-distanced family show set in the War of the Roses and featuring Sir Thomas Malory, author of the Morte d’Arthur, which takes place on a ’round-table’ stage in the moat of the Tower. 

The first of our online events went live at Christmas 2020 – a heart-warming interactive zoom experience taking people back to the time of Henry VII and introducing them to the formidable Lady Margaret Beaufort and a few of her guests and servants as they spent Christmas together.

Building on the success of Christmas at the Castle we continued our online adventures with Lady Margaret Beaufort and friends, this time with the added pressure of her son King Henry VII’s imminent arrival.