A Great Night Out: A Midsummer Night´s Dream, Towneley Hall
(World News UK)

Date: 28 March 2020 Reporter: Martin Thomasson Share: As many a schoolchild will tell you, Shakespearean comedies belong to a special genre of comedy-that genre that is not funny (and probably isn´t even meant to be funny). I confess to having carried this view forward well into adulthood. Even as an undergraduate, I would have told you that the only time I´d cracked a smile at one of Will´s lines was while watching a `Marxist´ production of Macbeth at Liverpool Playhouse (c1984): `Marx´ in this instance...