Britain's What's On Event Guide
Ruddigore
We welcome you to the little Cornish village of Rederring and to RUDDIGORE, a spooky blood and thunder Victorian melodrama telling the tale of a young man trapped by the curse of his ancestors. We meet a professional band of frustrated bridesmaids, a chorus of ghosts, curses and disguises, a good old-fashioned villain and of course our beautiful heroine!
We promise you love songs, nautical music, belly aching laughter, ghostly goings on, words sung so fast you won’t think it humanly possible, delightfully funny dialogue and possibly the best madrigal in the G&S canon!
For centuries, the Murgatroyd family (the Baronets of Ruddigore) have been under a witch’s curse – to commit a crime every day, or die in terrible agony!
In trying to escape his fate, Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, (the rightful heir) has run away to the little Cornish village of Rederring disguised as Robin Oakapple, a poor farmer, leaving his brother Sir Despard to assume the title along with the dreaded curse. But on the very day that Robin is to marry the sweet Rose Maybud, his secret is revealed by his foster brother Richard Dauntless, resulting in the usually meek mannered and shy Robin having to reluctantly resume his rightful place as Sir Ruthven, the Bad Baronet of Ruddigore!
Confronted by the ghosts of his ancestors who step from their picture frames in the gallery of Ruddigore castle, can he find a way to save the day by satisfy their demands whilst continuing to live a blameless life with the girl he loves?
Come and watch the story unfold with all its ghostly goings on just as we approach Halloween!
As to be expected, and in the typical topsy-turvy style we all know and love, good and bad are reversed and not all is as it seems in the world of Gilbert and Sullivan and the witch’s curse of RUDDIGORE!
We promise you love songs, nautical music, belly aching laughter, ghostly goings on, words sung so fast you won’t think it humanly possible, delightfully funny dialogue and possibly the best madrigal in the G&S canon!
For centuries, the Murgatroyd family (the Baronets of Ruddigore) have been under a witch’s curse – to commit a crime every day, or die in terrible agony!
In trying to escape his fate, Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, (the rightful heir) has run away to the little Cornish village of Rederring disguised as Robin Oakapple, a poor farmer, leaving his brother Sir Despard to assume the title along with the dreaded curse. But on the very day that Robin is to marry the sweet Rose Maybud, his secret is revealed by his foster brother Richard Dauntless, resulting in the usually meek mannered and shy Robin having to reluctantly resume his rightful place as Sir Ruthven, the Bad Baronet of Ruddigore!
Confronted by the ghosts of his ancestors who step from their picture frames in the gallery of Ruddigore castle, can he find a way to save the day by satisfy their demands whilst continuing to live a blameless life with the girl he loves?
Come and watch the story unfold with all its ghostly goings on just as we approach Halloween!
As to be expected, and in the typical topsy-turvy style we all know and love, good and bad are reversed and not all is as it seems in the world of Gilbert and Sullivan and the witch’s curse of RUDDIGORE!
Thu 10 Oct to Saturday 12 Oct 24
Corn Exchange Theatre
Broad Street
Stamford Lincolnshire PE9 1PX
Adult/Concession/Under 12 = £18/£16/£8Thu 10 Oct 2024
Start time 7:30pm
Fri 11 Oct 2024
Start time 7:30pm
Sat 12 Oct 2024
Start time 7:30pm
Organised by
Stamford Corn Exchange Theatre
Spread the word
Similar Current Events
Seaton Starlights We Will Rock you 21 — 24 Oct 2026
Wed 21 Oct to Saturday 24 October Stamford Corn Exchange
Wed 21 Oct to Saturday 24 October Stamford Corn Exchange
Andy Fairweather Low & The Low Riders
Thursday 12 November Stamford Corn Exchange Theatre, Broad Street, Stamford, Lincs
Thursday 12 November Stamford Corn Exchange Theatre, Broad Street, Stamford, Lincs
Go West: An Intimate Evening with Singer Peter Cox
Friday 13 November Stamford Corn Exchange Theatre, Broad Street, Stamford, Lincs
Friday 13 November Stamford Corn Exchange Theatre, Broad Street, Stamford, Lincs
Hugh Cornwell - Never Say Goodbye
Thursday 26 November Stamford Corn Exchange Theatre, Broad Street, Stamford, Lincs
Thursday 26 November Stamford Corn Exchange Theatre, Broad Street, Stamford, Lincs