The RSC's 1977 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is the best I've ever seen of that play, due in no small part to the brilliantly controlled and daring performance of Richard Griffiths as Bottom. This was in the days of the old RSC building where, if you were in the gods (as I was for this particular matinee), you were miles away from the action and looked for spectacle and "big" acting if you were to stay awak…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM on April 14, 2013