SUMMER in Glasgow is incomplete without Bard in the Botanics. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Bard team have programmed a “Lovers and Madmen” season of Twelfth Night, Othello, Jane Austen’s Emma and John Webster’s 17th-century The Duchess of Malfi.
With no real funding from Creative Scotland, Bard in the Botanics took a risk with Scotland and its dodgy summers in 2002. The founder, American Scott Palmer, returned to the US after two years, though according to current artistic director Gordon Barr, he “still misses us to this day”. Barr and his associate director, Jennifer Dick, boast a long association with Bard in the Botanics, and continue to provide success in the Botanics – despite the weather..
