by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (first published 1600) with songs and incidental music by ANTHONY BERNARD
The producer, RAYMOND RAIKES , writes:
It is nearly midsummer-night in 1970, and this may be one of the last chances to hear Shakespeare's fairy-comedy before it is reinterpreted by Kott and Brook. The music by the late Anthony Bernard was written for productions of the play at Stratford-uponAvon in the 1930s and re-orchestrated by the composer in 1943 for the Theatre Royal, Santiago, who had asked the British Council to recommend an English score to replace the over-familiar Mendelssohn music.
A fragment of an Elizabethan melody. ' Heartsease,' is used with variations in the music for Oberon and Titania, and the music for the clowns is an old English folk tune.
(continued on facing page) Scenes:
In the Palace of Theseus
In the Cottage of Peter Quince In a Wood, a league from Athens
Characters in the order of speaking:
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader BARRY WILDE conducted by RAE JENKINS Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Arranged and produced in stereo by RAYMOND RAIKES t (The play will be given in two parts with an interval of eight minutes at 8.30* pm) (see page 14)