Nicholas Day

Nick has been round the block a few times in British Theatre. In a career stretching over fifty years, he has appeared in a hundred and seventeen professional theatre productions, and in over seventy on film and television. Nick has also appeared in seven plays at the National Theatre, eight West End theatres, and worked at the Royal Court, The Old Vic, the Donmar, the Menier Chocolate Factory and the Almeida Theatre. In Stratford itself, Nick has played in seven seasons at the RSC, touring to Tokyo, Broadway and many places in between. He played the Duke of Norfolk in the immensely successful Wolf Hall double bill, was there for the final show in the Festival Theatre in 2007 and back when the transformed Royal Shakespeare Theatre opened in 2011.

Welcome . . .

. . . to Nick’s very personal tour of Shakespeare’s town

Stratford upon Avon lies at the very heart of England, and Shakespeare has a place in our souls. His town now welcomes (well, in ordinary times!) two and a half million visitors every year, and the Shakespeare ‘industry’ is worth £58 million to the local economy. But it wasn’t always thus. In this affectionate and entertaining virtual tour, Nick will tell the story of how David Garrick, the most celebrated actor of his age, began the whole thing more than a hundred and fifty years after the great poet’s death. Don’t miss the opportunity to get the inside track on this picturesque town in the company of an actor who knows it and loves it like his own home. We’ll see the principal sites in the town associated with its famous son and take a peek behind the scenes at its world famous theatre. In under an hour and a half you will feel like you’ve been there, treading in Shakespeare’s footsteps, and you will feel like an insider, almost certainly knowing a lot more than any of the people who have actually wandered its streets gazing at the sites.