MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Missing the Kew
PETER MASON is unimpressed by an unsubtle production that disregards its woodland setting
KEW JUMPING: Fairies in Theatre on Kew's production of Midsummer Night's Dream
[Zac Cooke] 
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Theatre on Kew, Kew gardens, London
LOVELY setting, less lovely production.
With stepladder platforms on stage and maintenance trucks as props, not nearly enough is made of the verdant surrounds of Kew Gardens, and even less of its evening-time botanical atmosphere, which should perfectly suit this fairyland comedy.
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