venue

Temperance Hall & Ilkeston Grammar School

Dates

23rd - 26th February 1926

Directors

A. G. Revill & C. B. Sherwin

The February 1926 production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' was our first presentation of this ever-popular magical romantic comedy.

The show was complemented by a thirteen-strong orchestra performing Mendelsohhn's music for the play, written in the 19th century.

This was to be a production of firsts and lasts - as well as being the first production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' it was also the last time that we performed at the Temperance Hall in Derby, which had been our regular venue since 1920.  The play also went 'on tour', marking the first, and to date, only occasion when the British Empire Shakespeare Society (Derby Branch), as we were then known, performed at Ilkeston Grammar School.