GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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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
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
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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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