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Shire Productions specialise in outdoor drama and have been involved with the Weekends celebrating the life and work of J.R.R. Tolkien at Sarehole Mill, in Hall Green, Birmingham, from their start in 1989.  Members have presented dramatic excerpts from "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" at Sarehole Mill and Moseley Bog which are part of the Shire Country Park. They also staged an adaptation of Tolkien's Farmer Giles of Ham for the international gathering Tolkien 2005 at Aston University in Birmingham.  Many current members were involved with an early production of The Hobbit at Sarehole Mill in 1989, when the films were not even a twinkle in anyone's eye! 

The drama group appear at The Tolkien Weekend alongside the Shire Country Park Rangers, The Tolkien Society, the City Libraries, craftspeople, poets, entertainers and local volunteer groups, to provide this free community event. 

News for details of this year's weekend and latest items of interest.

Contents of other pages of interest are given below

• Middle-earth Weekend

• Beowulf

• Birmingham Tolkien Strategy

• Tolkien Centre

• Moseley Bog

• Sarehole Mill

• Withywindle Arena

• Tales from Moseley Bog

• Original plays by Vivienne Wilkes