Welcome to our Spring 2024 Festival

This is the 17th year of the Festival and we’re really proud to bring you this spring’s line-up.

We’re taking you from Ancient Rome to China, from the corridors of power to the power of the imagination of some of the country’s greatest writers.

We’ll be celebrating Noel Coward and women who smash glass ceilings, and looking at what Stratford must have been like in Shakespeare’s time. Never afraid to explore challenging topics, we bring you plenty to inspire and inform whatever your interests.

The Festival couldn’t happen without the support of our sponsors and our Festival Friends and Benefactors and to them we are enormously grateful.

And thanks to you, our audience, whether you’re joining us for the first time or have been with us along the journey. We look forward to having you with us!

Annie Ashworth | Festival Director