Dame Judi Dench says it's never too late to be a fairy

The 74-year-old actress is to star as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Rose Theatre in Kingston Upon Thames. She won acclaim for playing the queen of the fairies for Sir Peter in 1962, when he was the artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and agreed to disrobe in his film version six years later.

She had fallen in love with the part during a prod....