Labours’ Drowned”. The costumes were so wet that they had to be taken to a local sympathetic laundry to be dried out. It rained so often on the performance site at Cotehele, Cornwall, that on one occasion when the weather was dry Anne lost her way to the venue as it seemed so unfamiliar.
The Scillonian venues of the gardens in The Chaplaincy on the island of St Mary’s and Tresco Abbey were exposed to the sudden downpours which could sweep in from the Atlantic Ocean. One of these surprised the performance of Much Ado About Nothing in the Tresco Abbey gardens in 1981. The actor performing the role of Leonato, Hero’s father, always insisted on spraying his hair silver in order to convey a greater age of the character than his own 30-odd years. As the rain poured down on him, this silver ran down his face giving the impression that he was playing the “tin man” from the Wizard of Oz. Many members of the audience who had come to Tresco in their tiny boats from neighbouring islands came backstage to tell Anne how much, in spite of the rain, and perhaps, due to the fun of incidents like the silvered face of Leonato, they had enjoyed the performance:
“We may die trying to get home, but we will die happy!”
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