It promised to be something spectacular. As we took our seats on Friday night for a special early showing of Kynren to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, there was real buzz of expectation.
Ahead of that, we'd arrived in good time, as is advised, at the vast site in Bishop Auckland that is home to the outdoor performance whose full title, Kynren – An Epic Tale of England, gives you a good idea of both the show's ambitions and its scale. A 1,000-strong cast, 37 horses and, as it turns out, quite an assortment of other animals from geese to cattle were about to lead us through 2,000 years of English history, both fact and myth, over a galloping - often quite literally - 90 minutes.
