Towards the end of May, a BBC Scotland afternoon news bulletin surprisingly turned its attention to a forthcoming production of “one of William Shakespeare’s best loved plays” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream. However, this particular production wasn’t considered newsworthy because it came from an amateur group based in Dumfries and Galloway; not even that the Crossmichael […]
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Out in the Garden
“Touring is something that we have wanted to do for years, but was something that we could not afford to do without funding,” says Gordon Barr, Artistic Director of Scotland’s only professional outdoor Shakespeare festival, Bard in the Botanics. If there’s any irony attached to the company’s first major tour of Scotland, in early 2015, […]
