Today we had lunch at The Granary, Weston Park. Lunch was ‘Gift Experience’ from Christmas 2024 and we had intended to use it on one of our holiday adventures last year. That didn’t quite work out so we chose somewhere local where we hadn’t dined before.

We waited until Mr C retired so that we could enjoy a leisurely lunch. As you can see the sun put its hat on to celebrate the occasion.

The dining experience was well worth the wait.

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…