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~ Previous Productions ~ 1992 - A Midsummer Night's Dream Quenington Old Rectory
For our second season, 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.
The audiences were enchanted by 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 with semi horizontal patrons (not at all the worse for their picnics — in those days we 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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