Timid Mole yearns to explore the wide world. Gruff old Badger enjoys peace and quiet. Rat likes summer picnics and just messing about in boats. Their idyllic lives on the Riverbank are turned upside down when Toad announces his latest in a long line of extravagant obsessions: a gypsy caravan.  

Generous Toad. Exciting Toad. Only-A-Tiny-Bit-Boastful Toad. The Riverbankers console themselves with the fact that he cannot possibly get any worse – until, bewitched by the roar of a motorcar and the screech of burning tyres, he does. The other animals resolve to save him from himself – but can they teach him even a jot of restraint AND help him evict the opportunistic stoats and weasels who have taken over his ancestral pile?  

Multiple award-winning Illyria, celebrates Kenneth Grahame’s timeless tale of friendship, laughter, the longing for home and the lure of adventure. Enjoy it where the story is set: in the great British outdoors. 

Running time: 100-minutes (approximately), including a 20-minute interval. 

Suitable for: Ages 5+ (younger children also welcome). 

Unallocated Covered Seating

£17.60

*Festival Friends & Hever Castle, Hever Golf and Wellbeing Club Members 

*Groups, over 20 tickets 

*Please contact the box office, we can reserve tickets for you while you organise your group.

Joint Theatre and Castle Garden entry

 Please Note: Ticket prices have remained at 2024 prices. We have however embedded the booking fee for the first time.

Anne Boleyn’s Woodland Walk

Come prepared for the weather in this dappled woodland glade. You can bring your own seats, beanbags, rugs etc. along with your picnic. Choose where you would like to sit when you arrive, you will view the performance from there whilst enjoying your picnic.  

The theatre bar will be open before the event and during the interval (if the show has one) for hot and cold drinks, snacks and ice cream. 

 Please note: umbrellas are welcome if required, gazebo’s are not.  

You are welcome to stay in the gardens after the performance until the Castle closes for the day. 

Please check our   access page for further information.