With only four actors playing all of the parts, providing musical accompaniment, sound effects, and finding contemporary elements to add to a demanding script, a lot was happening when the Pantaloon Theatre Company bought their open-air adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest to Stowe Fields.
Think of a funfair and you usually think strobe lights and deafening techno music – but the arrival of Carters Steam Fair in Lichfield is a welcome change from the norm.