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Quenington Old Rectory
For 1992, David Gaylor gave us A Midsummer Night's Dream . Again set in period, lovely to look at and full of magical conceits, it was performed in idyllic weather.
People still talk of Titania floating down the river with her fairies, standing on a silently moving boat, the stage mist gently curling round them; and, having delivered a large slice of her mind to Oberon, disappearing, still erect and serene, behind a curtain of weeping willow.
The audience stand was thronged - nay, overflowing - with semi horizontal patrons (not asleep, you understand, and not at all the worse for their picnics - in those days we still could not yet run to seats) for this most beloved of English pastoral plays. This was the year when we dispensed with a prompter, abandoning the cast on an ocean of words - a decision we have never reversed nor regretted.
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