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Missing the Kew
PETER MASON is unimpressed by an unsubtle production that disregards its woodland setting
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Theatre on Kew, Kew gardens, London

 

LOVELY setting, less lovely production. 

With stepladder platforms on stage and maintenance trucks as props, not nearly enough is made of the verdant surrounds of Kew Gardens, and even less of its evening-time botanical atmosphere, which should perfectly suit this fairyland comedy. 

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