As the world commemorates the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, the Malta Amateur Dramatic Club looks back with pride and satisfaction at the many years that it has regaled audiences in Malta with the works of this great writer. In 1938, MADC staged an open air performance of As You Like It at San Anton Gardens. The delighted critic of The Malta Chronicle at the time "hoped it would become an annual event." This was not to be until 1951 when the headmaster of the Lyceum directed A Midsummer Night's Dream. The tradition lives on with MADC's 65th Shakespeare production, having Nanette Brimmer directing the Bard's magical comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. Brimmer had at first thought of staging the play in the 1960s, to emphasise the timelessness of Shakespeare's writings. However, on second thoughts, she decided to celebrate the genius of the playwright by performing the play traditionally – costume and all. A Midsummer Night's Dream "promises to be an entertaining evening as the idyllic wooded crescent of San Anton Gardens becomes the enchanted forest, mixing reality and fantasy, with tangled lovers, mischievous fairies and mysterious goings on." The cast includes...
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