Fight for tickets — if any remain — for the Shakespeare’s Globe touring production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a not-to-be-missed theatrical experience.

The setting, in the Bodleian Library’s Old Schools Quadrangle, is itself a star of the show, supplying something lovely to look at in moments — very few of them — when one’s eyes are not riveted on the stage.

Superb performances abound in director Raz Shaw’s fast-moving, production, which shifts the action into an ‘anyone-for-tennis?’ world of the 1930s.

These include Bethan Walker’s sexily-clad Puck — more Sally Bowles than Robin Goodfellow — and an utterly hilarious Bottom from that fine (Oxfordshire-raised) actor William Mannering (pictured with Jasmine Hyde as Titania).

There is first-class work, too, from Louise Ford, Hara Yannas, Leon Williams and Mark Quartley as the four young lovers who fall foul of fairy pranks in the Athenian woods. Mr Quartley shows another side to his comic talents doubling as Flute, in which role he presents an hilarious portrait of Thisbe in the play-within-a-play that ends this rollicking comedy.