[3] Their other productions include Stories from a Flying Trunk (1979), The Nightingale (1981), Biddy (1983), Little Dorrit (1987), The Fool (1990), As You Like It (1991), Amahl and the Night Visitors (1996), The IMAX Nutcracker (1997) and The Good Soldier Schwejk (2018).

Many of the children who formed the cast, all non-professional actors, came from the North Peckham estate where 10-year old Damilola Taylor was fatally stabbed during production,[4] just a stone's throw from Sands studios.

[5] This event drew the world's attention to some of the estates of Southwark, their abandonment and lack of government funding and resources, and associated crime levels.

The children were not only performers but were involved in the whole project of making a film - doing clapperboards, preparing the costumes, the sets, the forest, cutting leaves in workshops.

[7] Edzard's approach to A Children's Midsummer Night's Dream has been described as “finding specifically childlike concerns” in Shakespeare's play, rather than "mobilising it" for older audiences.

[8] Writing in the Literature/ Film Quarterly journal, Mark Thornton Burnett describes The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream as “a wonderful achievement” by director Christine Edzard, who has “established herself as a significant voice in the reinterpretation of classic writers”.

BBC Film Reviews, while understanding the director's decision to tap into the “self-consciousness, directness, and enthusiasm” of “ordinary schoolkids”, complained that the young actors were “of decidedly mixed abilities”, sometimes faltering in delivery or using a “wrong emphasis”, and, as children, were not able to “carry...the soul of Shakespeare's adult characters”.