Set in Elizabethan England, Peter Hall's new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream presents Titania, the Fairy Queen, as a portrait of the ageing Queen Elizabeth I, echoing Judi Dench's Oscar-winning performance in Shakespeare in Love. This production reunites Hall and Dench in an enduring theatrical partnership that has lasted some fifty years. Dench first played Titania for Hall with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1962. Sitting throughout rehearsals will be Roger Warren, who has written this book as an account of what it is like to put on a major production--the trials and tribulations and the highs and lows.