SHAKESPEAREAN SEASON
COMEDY “GOES ’WITH SWING” LONDON, March 24. A “strange sound” was heard after the curtain came down on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Stratford-on-Avon, says the “Daily Herald.” “The players were cheering themselves backstage,” it adds. . “They
were so surprised that the evening had gone with such swing that they needed to let off steam.
“It was pleasant to hear them, for this new* season, which depends on young players for its success, started in chill and gloom last week with a poor ‘Othello.’ “Now everything was right again. This was due to Anthony Quayle, who was determined that the comics in this most frivolous of all of Shakespeare’s plays should get their due. “Quayle played Bottom the Weaver with such vigour and slyness that he made it the best comic Shakespeare can have hoped for, and stopped the show with applause half way through ■the third act.”
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27308, 26 March 1954, Page 11
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