Bottom and his rustics look and sound as if they have come from a Birmingham car factory...

Act and Scene
Credit
Sheridan Morley, Daily Express
Date
2005
Copyright
©

Too often Bottoms seek laughs: Fernandes, a bulky man with a porpoise-like lightness, allows them to come to him by the simple device of taking himself seriously.

Act and Scene
Credit
Michael Billington, The Guardian
Date
2006
Copyright
©

[The Mechanicals] look about as working class as the average New Labour MP, wearing identical sleek grey suits with the jackets buttoned up tight.

Act and Scene
Credit
John Peter, Sunday Times
Date
1999
Copyright
©

[Bottom] sports a massive donkey head with deliciously mobile jaw and eyelids.

Act and Scene
Credit
Michael Coveney, FT
Date
1989
Copyright
©

David Waller clogged around the stage as Bottom, avuncular and beaming in a false nose.

Act and Scene
Credit
Rosemary Say, FT
Date
1970
Copyright
©

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