The Pocket Dream has Shakespeare, audience participation, dancing penguins, several backstage dramas which actually take place onstage and a cast of six playing twenty-one roles between them (plus a few extra fairies).  A thoroughly entertaining broad comedy (and you can’t beat a broad Bottom).

The curtain goes up on the first scene of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, during which actors Simon and Phyllida make the alarming discovery that their fellow thespians – driven to distraction by Phyllida’s grand dame manner – have staged a mass walkout and are getting riotously drunk at the Wonky Donkey. But the show must go on, and with the help of overworked stage manager Jo, stagehand Dave , libidinous gym teacher Tom, and front-of-house manager Felix, we are treated to a truly surreal version of Shakespeare’s play…

Published by Samuel French

108 pages

Condition: VERY GOOD – sticker and annotation on title page