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Quenington Old Rectory
Liz Comstock-Smith's 1998 production of The Merchant of Venice , set in Italy's early Mussolini period, was both a triumph and an amazing spectacle. Venice came to the Cotswolds, including a real gondola, and real Venetians working real sandalos. Portia came and went in a real open touring motorcar of the period; and, to raise money for Venice in Peril, numerous of the Venetian craft were really rowed down the Thames from Lechlade to Tower Bridge the following week - the Cotswold Arcadians presenting a slightly modified, and 99% boat-borne, version of the play at Oxford, Henley-on-Thames and Hampton Court.
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