Magnificent ‘Dream’ by young players
We have become used to the repeated astonishment of marvellous High School shows directed by Heather Gough, but A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mrs Gough’s final production as a teacher at the school, was stunning. A packed audience watched spell-bound as the capricious plot began to unfold, shifting from family politics in the palace of Theseus to a ‘wood near Athens’ where an utterly different state of things prevailed. As the curtains parted to reveal the enchanted forest, there was a collective gasp and a round of spontaneous applause. Here was a silvery place of strange trees where stars twinkled above a sleeping blossom in which lovers could sleep unseen, a bosky kingdom ruled over by supernatural royalty with powers unknown to the solid courtiers of the ordinary world.
