The 2010 Season of The Lost Colony runs
May 28 thru August 20, every evening except Sunday!
For
Tickets call The Lost Colony at
252-473-3414
For more information check our website
at
www.thelostcolony.org
The Lost Colony The
Lost Colony is America's
longest-running outdoor symphonic drama and
tells the story of 117 English colonists under the
leadership of Sir Walter Raleigh who settled on the
shores on Roanoke Island in 1587 only to disappear
without a trace. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning
North Carolina playwright, Paul Green,
the drama brings this tragic event to life with
words, music, production values, and dance.
Commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I and financed by
Sir Walter Raleigh, the Roanoke Colony arrived here
in 1587 after a brief exploration of Roanoke Island
and the Albemarle Region in 1584 by John White.
Among the 117 men, women and children who arrived
was Ananias Dare and his wife, Eleanor, who would
give birth weeks later to the first English child in
America: Virginia Dare.
Governor John White returned to
England later that summer for supplies only to find
England on the brink of war with Spain.
Detained due to the war for three years, he returned
to Roanoke Island in 1590 only to find the colony
deserted, and a tantalizing word carved on a
palisade post: "Croatoan." Subsequent investigations
failed to uncover any evidence of the vanished
colonists.
The Lost Colony is produced every summer
in historic Waterside Theater on
the shores of Roanoke Sound, only yards from where
the colonists settled in 1587. Surrounding Waterside
Theater, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
interprets the story of the first English settlement
in the New World and its mysterious disappearance.
The adjacent Elizabethan Gardens commemorate the
colonists with stunning formal English gardens and
statuary. Nearby, the Freedman's Colony,
a Civil War era settlement of freed slaves on
Roanoke Island, is commemorated with a trail that
details their story.
The 2010 season of The Lost Colony runs May 28 thru
August 20, every evening except Sunday!
For
Tickets call The Lost Colony at
252-473-3414
For more information check our website
at
www.thelostcolony.org
Production Season and Times: 8:00pm
Monday through Saturday late May - late Aug Admission Fees: Lower Level seats are $24; Upper
Level seats are $20 for Adults; Seniors $19;
Children 11 & under are $12
Discounts for organized groups of 20 or more
Backstage Tours
$7 each
Reservations required
About the Facilities
Visitor center (Fort Raleigh NHS)
Gift shop
Picnic facilities
Free parking
Audio/visual presentation
Recreational trails
Vending/food service (summer)
On-site banquet facilities
Public restrooms
Motorcoach parking
Exhibits
Historic structures
Handicap Accessibility: Site and
visitor center are fully accessible
Nearest Major Town/City: Manteo
Visitor
Information
Outer Banks Visitors Bureau
One Visitors Center Circle
Manteo, NC 27954
Toll-Free: (800) 446-6262
Fax: (252) 473-5777 Website:
www.outerbanks.org
About the Programs
Major Program Areas: Early
American Settlement, Native American, Civil
War/Reconstruction, African American, Performing
Arts
