This year, we rescheduled the event to be as close as possible to midsummer night itself. With the beautiful performance space of New College Cloisters substituting for the Athenian forest, the playreading gives the boys one final chance to “tread the boards” together as a troupe, but without the pressure of having to learn their lines by heart. Showing off their by now very-well-honed Shakespearean acting chops, the boys made their picnicking audience laugh at the absurd antics of the young loves, courtiers, fairies, and ‘rude mechanicals’.