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The poster |
The audience, eating their potage, awaits the start of the show |
witch comes with a cackle from the Wyrd Sisters (Mel, Pru and Tina) |
introducing our superannuated fairies for the evening (Wendy, Jill, Angela and Maggie) |
Jo (as compere for the night) is interrupted by a New World trader (Alun) trying to interest him in a new product tobacco! |
That dynamic duo, Jo and Nick, are soon 'Brushing up their Shakespeare' (and mussing up their lines!) |
Next we had the Dogberry sketch from 'Much Ado About Nothing' L to R: Alun, Rufus, Louis and Kathryn |
Mel once more tried to convince us that she hates men. |
Then that New World Trader was back again, this time trying to interest us in coffee. |
Romeo (Nick) & Juliet (Karina) have a spat about football Jo acts as referee! |
Wendy reads us a sonnet |
then joins the other 'songbirds' to sing us a madrigal |
Jo Levy gives us music in the interval. |
The second part of the show begins with a Prologue from A Midsummer
Night's Dream |
Dil sings 'Sigh No More' accompanied by Nick & Jo on their stringed instruments. |
Rufus gives us 'Greensleeves' on the oboe. |
L to R: Zak, Rod, Zya and Louis in a snatch from 'Upstart Crow' |
A rap from (L to R) Rod, Mel, Michaela and Rufus about the 4 Shakespeares. |
The New World Trader is back again this time offering us potatoes. |
Dil and Angela offer us commentary on one of Shakespeare's sonnets. |
Clare and Chris give us a World Premiere of their 'Much a-Blue about Nothing'. |
Annaliese and Karina tell us how 'Hamlet' might have been edited. |
And the evening ends with the cast helping themelves to left-overs from the banquet! |
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