Directed by Nicholas Quircke, and performed, admirably, outside, at the St Ann’s Well Garden, Hove, by the Festival Shakespeare Company.
Using a British Raj theme, and sticking to the script, will Rosalind and Orlando overcome the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, and get together, or will the evil Duke let slip the dogs of war and ruin it all?
With added material that this writer hasn’t heard since the Noel Coward and Don Estelle performances back in the days before teabags were round.
Sometime in the early 1990s, the Kensington Drama Club found that it was time for their next production. There were a group of willing people, some kit, ninepence ha’penny in budget, and a rickety old stage - what else do you need?
The cast includes Joyce Branagh, sister of Kenneth Branagh.