Distinguished Gala Night visitor - actor, Richard Todd, with (second left) Jean Harley, founder and director of Stamford Shakespeare Company.

"We hugely enjoyed our evening including a rattling good performance of Hamlet."
Richard & Virginia Todd

"Shakespeare would have been proud. My grateful thanks
and admiration to the cast for this wonderfully performed play." (Love's Labour's Lost).
Nicole Fayard-Smillie, Leicester

"What I saw (Romeo & Juliet) was hardly amateur...the Company has an exceptionally high standard."
Jane Lapotaire, Radio 4 arts programme

"The costumes for "The Dream" were wonderful and the characterisation superb. Many congratulations!"
Mrs Veronica Shepherd, West Sussex

"The Beaux' Stratagem was an excellent and amusing production. I cannot imagine a summer without Tolethorpe."
Pauline Caville, Northampton

"Incredibly breathtaking... absolutely magical... I will have to
return to see it again!" (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Denise Barnfield, Anglia TV

"How fantastic the whole atmosphere is at Tolethorpe. We sat
engrossed from start to finish of Twelfth Night."
Paul Burchell, Biggleswade

"What a lovely way to spend a beautiful summer evening."
E.A. Duffin, Stamford