The théâtre de nature tried to let air into the stuffiness of early mechanisation which, following the steam engine, has already overrun many human traditions. It seemed a regenerating influence. I saw A Midsummer Night’s Dream played in a pine forest in Berlin. It was very boring; the sound didn’t carry and the dim light was not as amusing as all that! On the other hand the very same man who had staged A Midsummer Night’s Dream among the pines -Reinhardt- put on The Merchant of Venice in 1934 in Venice itself, on the occasion of the Conference on Art of the International Institute of Intellectual Corporation. This was really very good.