Sunday, 20 December 2009

We performed some special festive Shakespeare earlier today at Boo, a fairtrade shop on Sadler Gate in the Cathedral Quarter of Derby.  Titania the fairy queen (played by Elizabeth Rose) fell in love with Bottom the weaver (played by Ben Adams), who was turning into a donkey while a group of bemused Christmas shoppers looked on. Two performances took place both in, and in front of, the shop window to provide some alternative entertainment for shoppers on a cold wintry day. Bottom and Titania at Christmas was part of the pilot event for Derby Arts Fringe, which is finding ways of bringing art to the windows of both trading and empty shops throughout the city centre.  Photographs of our performances - taken by Mark Tunstall - can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/1623theatre/sets/72157623123503838/

 

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