I was wearing ‘Secret Bunnies’, the Bard behind me is made out of lego pieces.

However…

Getting back to the point I enjoyed my evening with the Bard at the RSC watching a delightful performance of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.

On arrival the stage wasn’t set up because the theatre company had been caught up in traffic.  It gave us the unique opportunity to see the stage being set up and how it worked, which included a bit of audience participation to say if the audio was loud enough.

We had left the fishing umbrella up just in case; the people behind us said it was fine and they could still see the stage.  Then a strange rude man appeared and said “are you going to take that down or are we going to move”.  Hmm! why didn’t he just, say could you put the umbrella down please because we can’t see?  When I checked him out a little later he wasn’t even sat facing the stage.

Luckily the rain held off for the performance and only started up again once it had finished.

The performance was played for laughs and was magical, with the cast rushing of into the distant trees and running through the audience quite alarmingly at times.  The acting and characterisation were excellent, with only 5 actors to play all the parts.  It was a very modern take on the theme and very cleverly done.

Samuel Pepys had this to say about the play:

The most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life…