Brownsea Open Air Theatre (BOAT) attracts 4,000 visitors each summer to their Shakespeare performances in a temporary auditorium on Brownsea Island in Dorset.
Brownsea Open Air Theatre has been running every year since 1964The National Trust has 'pulled the rug' from under a 60-year-old theatre production on an idyllic island, claiming the shows threaten the landscape.
Roy Sach, the chairman of the trustees, said: 'We had a meeting with the National Trust and they told us they no longer wanted us to use an auditorium. 'There's been an auditorium put up every year since the 1960s but they now say it has an impact on the environment. Before Covid, BOAT, which has ties with the Royal Shakespeare Company, had been in talks with the National Trust about developing a natural amphitheatre on the island that could have been hired out to other organisations - but the plans stalled due to the pandemic.
The National Trust has told the company to scale back the productions and remove the temporary auditorium The scaled-back shows would mean reduced ticket prices and the charity would struggle to break even. The charity announced that this summer's sold-out production of Macbeth will be their last, ending a run stretching more than 50 years
Theatregoers, including National Trust members, have criticised the trust for their 'incredibly shortsighted' decision which they said was the 'nail in the coffin' for Poole.
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