Dream On: Surprises in the Athenian Wood
Doctor Peter Raby (Emeritus Fellow at Cambridge University) was quick to pull me up on my first stab at A Midsummer Night's Dream; an indulgence-of-a-production played out in a university park to the sound of cucumber flirting with Pimms. His grounds were that I had failed to acknowledge the mortal danger facing those errant elopers, Hermia and Lysander. He had, he said, expected better of me.read more