~ Previous Productions ~

1997 - Romeo and Juliet

1999 - Measure for Measure

1998 - The Merchant of Venice

Quenington Old Rectory

 

Liz Comstock-Smith's production of The Merchant of Venice, set in Italy's early Mussolini period, was both a triumph and an amazing spectacle. Portia came and went in a real open touring motorcar of the period. Venice came to the Cotswolds, bringing a real gondola, and real Venetians working real sandalos. 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.