Tuesday, 10 November 2026

WAX BOTTOM

Waxworks postcards can be very instructive. Until I saw this artefact, I had no idea that there was once a Shakespeare-themed Louis Tussauds in Stratford Upon Avon, or that Frankie Howerd once played Bottom in A Midsummers Night Dream (The Old Vic, 1957. But there was, and he did, and here's the proof. Titter if you like, it's one of the Bard's comedies after all.

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