The Roses' Garden Festival

Tewkesbury

Dates: Thu 30 Jul 2026 - Sun 2 Aug 2026

At The Roses' Garden Festival, there’s live music drifting through the trees, street food worth lingering over and a bar that turns the whole thing into a proper summer occasion.

Bring the kids for bold, brilliant twists on classic stories, after you’ve let them jump straight into hands-on activities and workshops— all included in your ticket.

Enjoy live music throughout the afternoon, alongside a very special performance in the evening from Rain or Shine Theatre Company.

What's On

• Thu 30 Jul 2026

Afternoon Children's Activities | 3.00pm

Start your afternoon with a fun and engaging activity or workshop designed especially for young people—the perfect way to kick off a day at the festival.

The Pickwick Papers | 6.00pm
Rain or Shine Theatre Company invites you into the delightfully chaotic world of The Pickwick Papers, where misadventure and merriment collide in a whirlwind of Dickensian absurdity.

Follow the lovable Mr Pickwick and his eccentric companions as they stumble through a series of comic escapades—featuring confusing courtships, courtroom chaos, questionable duels, and carriage rides gone spectacularly wrong.

Bursting with fast-paced wit, slapstick humour, and dazzling multi-role performances, this brand-new adaptation brings to life a cast of unforgettable, larger-than-life characters in a show that’s as charming as it is hilarious.

• Fri 31 Jul 2026

Morning Children's Activities |10.00am

Start your day with a fun and engaging activity or workshop designed especially for young people—the perfect way to kick off a day at the festival.

Sherlock Holmes And the Mystery of the Governor’s Nose | 6.00pm
Holmes and Watson are called upon to investigate the disappearance of a legendary painting, The Governor’s Nose. But all is not as elementary as it seems.

As mysterious forces – and an assortment of shady characters – work to undermine our heroes, they need all the wit, guile, and deduction capabilities in their arsenal, along with the help of the steadfast Mrs Hudson and Detective “Always-One-Step-Behind” Lestrade.

Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Governor’s Nose is a comic new play, based on The Naval Treaty and The Man with the Twisted Lip, with apologies to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Adapted by Matthew Bassington and Aidan Mosby from two short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

• Sat 1 Aug 2026

Morning Children's Activity | 10.00am

Start the day fresh with a fun children’s activity or workshop—perfect for getting little ones engaged and ready for a day of festival fun.

The Railway Children | 2.00pm
No Wifi. No Xbox. And water from a well?! This definitely isn’t Brum.

Bobbie (that’s me), Peter & Phyllis (ow! Stop pinching me) - I mean Phil - have been swept off to the English countryside by our Mom, who is suddenly far too busy to play with us.

Left to explore our new home, (if you can call it that), it’s not long before the railway calls from the bottom of the garden. As we follow the tracks to the local station, we discover a whole new world full of strange characters, romance (stop retching, Peter), peril and questions that definitely need answering!

Children’s Workshop | 3.00pm
Following the performance, The Paperback Theatre will lead an interactive workshop, giving children the chance to get involved, get creative and explore storytelling and performance.

Live Music | 6.00pm
Join us in Victoria Gardens as the sun begins to set and a local acoustic musician takes to the stage. Relax and unwind after a fun-filled day as we round off the third day of The Garden Festival with laid-back live music in a beautiful setting.

• Sun 2 Aug 2026

Morning Children's Activities | 10.00am

Start the day fresh with a fun children’s activity or workshop—perfect for getting little ones engaged and ready for a day of festival fun.

Bin Rat! | 2.00pm
A rat-astic and realistic look into refuse and recycling. Rummage through the rubble with Bin Rat to discover where all the junk goes!

Scrape scraps off the streets in this outdoor interactive puppetry show, & find out what literally happens to litter.

The Last Baguette makes entertaining, accessible and eccentric work for family audiences.

Workshop by The Last Baguette | 3.00pm
Don’t miss the workshop after Bin Rat!—a chance to get stuck into fun, hands-on activities led by the brilliant team at The Last Baguette!

 

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Roses Theatre

The Roses is a 370 seat theatre within a busy and popular arts centre in Tewkesbury. It has an eclectic programme of live events, take part activities, exhibitions and festivals. 

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