Masterminding the production was the not husband and wife team of John and Carrie Wyatt and Green. John shouldered the leviathan responsibility of Director while Carrie provided support and production design.

Our editorial panel was largely in the play and so an impartial observer was dispatched on an arduous mission to report back on conditions in the front row.

As most people who know the setting of this play will know that it is set in Tuscany, lovingly recreated in this show by a clump of shrubs in front of some Portakabins (aided, as ever, by members of the Tech Crew). The set also featured a rare achievement - a proper wooden piece of furniture built by George 'Richaaarrd!' Jarman, setting a new standard of quality which future productions will have to meet if we are to continue to rip the shit out of him.

The two intertwined love stories of Benedick and Beatrice, were played by John Wyatt and Anne-Louise Harvey (inset), and Claudio and Hero (Ashley Pearson and Joanne Walker)

Mike Crane played Don Pedro, Simon Bennett his bastard brother Don John. The part of Leonato was essayed by Brian Benson and that of his aging brother Antonio was taken by that perennial Fresher Jolyon Hennings.

Mr Andrew Roughton in his seventeenth stage outing for the Society played Dogberry in his inimitable and not exactly unprecedented Dorset Farmer style.

Highlights of the show included the tomfoolery of Messrs Roughton and Jarman and a live reworking of the wedding scene (which was probably only a highlight for those taking part as it was so seamlessly rearranged as to render the audience 'none the wiser'. A thoroughly fine account nonetheless and much enjoyed by all who attended.