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Saturday-Night Theatre presenting: A Midsummer Night's Dream

on BBC Home Service Basic

by William Shakespeare.
with the music of Mendelssohn arranged and conducted by the late John Hollingsworth.
with Virginia Maskell, Norman Shelley, Gabriel Woolf, Frank Duncan and Malcolm Keen.
Soloists: Eileen Poulter and Mary Thomas
The Ambrosian Singers
Sinfonia of London

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Contributors

Author:
William Shakespeare
Music arranged and conducted by:
John Hollingsworth
Soloist:
Eileen Poulter
Soloist:
Mary Thomas
Singers:
The Ambrosian Singers
Musicians:
Sinfonia of London
Producer:
Val Gielgud
Theseus, Duke of Athens:
Malcolm Keen
Egeus, father of Hermia:
Earle Grey
Lysander, both in love with Hermia:
Michael Deacon
Demetrius, both in love with Hermia:
Timothy West
Philostrate, Master of the Revels to Theseus:
Eric Anderson
Quince, a carpenter:
Carleton Hobbs
Snug, a joiner:
George Merritt
Bottom, a weaver:
Norman Shelley
Flute, a bellows-mender:
Norman Claridge
Snout, a tinker:
Peter Pratt
Starveling, a tailor:
Frank Partington
Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus:
Janet Burnell
Hermia, daughter of Egeus, in love with Lysander:
Jennifer Wright
Helena, in love with Demetrius:
Gudrun Ure
Oberon, King of the Fairies:
Gabriel Woolf
Titania, Queen of the Fairies:
Virginia Maskell
Puck:
Frank Duncan
First Fairy:
Elizabeth Morgan
Fairies - Peaseblossom:
Jo Manning Wilson
Fairies - Cobweb:
Valerie Kirkbright
Fairies - Mustardseed:
Petronella Barker

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