The strange “lost” Shakespeare play The History of Cardenio, based on a character from Cervantes’s Don Quixote which had been translated into English in 1612, only a few years before the Bard’s death, is getting an airing at Otterton Mill, the restaurant, shop, art gallery, craft ship and music venue near Sidmouth in Devon. There is no original script and the storyline appears to be based on not much more than hearsay, but so far as it is known it has been adapted by Bernard Richards and is being staged at the 1000-year-old mill by the appropriately named (read on) Alternative Cambridge Theatre Company on June 20. The date may seem salient – the day before Midsummer Night – and the play tells the story of four young folk, a libertine, an abandoned young woman, another who is pursued and man who has been betrayed in love. “The play fits snugly into the schema of a Shakespearean tragi-comedy with all the usual plot twists and turns before its final resolution” says the publicity. And the fact that it seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to a Shakespeare play written and performed at least a decade before this one could have been staged need not spoil your enjoyment of what promises to be a very jolly evening.