A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview of the production
Return to the forest this summer – a dream world of flying fairies, contagious fogs and moonlight revels. The seating is wrapped around the action while the immersive tickets allow the story to be followed on foot.
“Five stars might not be enough” Observer ★★★★★
Following its critically-acclaimed run in 2019, the Bridge Theatre’s five-star production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns for a limited run.
Direction is by Nicholas Hytner, Evening Standard Theatre Award-winning design by Bunny Christie, costume by Christina Cunningham, lighting by Bruno Poet and sound by Paul Arditti. Also returning to the team is composer Grant Olding, movement director Arlene Phillips, and associate director & associate movement director James Cousins.
Image credits: Photography Jason Bell, Creative Muse Creative Communications
General Information
Sensory advice to be confirmed
Performance schedule
Monday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Thursday & Saturday: 2.30pm
Access Performances
Captioned: Friday 18 July at 7.30pm
Audio Described & Touch Tour: Saturday 2 August at 2.30pm
Find out more about our Access facilities
Young Bridge tickets
Young Bridge members can login to book up to two immersive standing tickets for £19.50
Schools Rate
Immersive standing tickets on Mon–Thu performances at £19.50 each, with 1 free teacher for every 10 pupils. Minimum of 10 tickets
Visit our Schools’ page for more details
Groups of 10+
Immersive standing tickets reduced to £25. £79.50 & £65 seated tickets reduced to £45.00. Valid Mon–Thu evenings & matinees. Minimum of 10 tickets
Contact groups@bridgetheatre.co.uk or fill out our group booking form for more details
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Cast
JJ Feild
THEATRE includes Ring Round The Moon at The Playhouse and The Pride at The Royal Court
TELEVISION & FILM include the upcoming film Jack Ryan and series Little Disasters; the series The Peripheral; the film Prisoner of Paradise; series two of Lost in Space; the series The Romanoffs; and Turn Up Charlie; as well as the Oscar-nominated film Ford v Ferrari; as series regular in New Amsterdam and TURN; and films Austenland, Northanger Abbey, Professor Marston & The Wonder Women; and Captain America.
February 2025
Susannah Fielding
TRAINING Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
THEATRE includes The Country Wife at Chichester Festival Theatre; The Crossing Plays at the Royal Court; Bull at the Young Vic; The Merchant of Venice and American Psycho The Musical at the Almeida; The Beaux’ Stratagem, Much Ado About Nothing, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Philistines and The Rose Tattoo at the National Theatre; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and All New People in the West End; The Merchant of Venice for the RSC; Trelawny of the Wells at the Donmar Warehouse; and Breakfast with Ravenhill for Paines Plough.
TELEVISION includes Here We Go, The Cleaner, Who is Erin Carter?, Tom Jones, The Cockfields, This Time with Alan Partridge, Bloods, Life, McDonald & Dodds, Doc Martin, Sticks and Stones, High and Dry, Silent Witness, The Great Indoors, Black Mirror, I Want My Wife Back, Catastrophe, Love Sick, Death in Paradise, Boomers, The Great Fire, Drifters, Father Brown, A Nice Arrangement, The Job Lot, Uncle, Pramface, Le Grand, Pete Versus Life, Dr Who, Filth, Midsomer Murders, and Wallander.
FILM includes Death on the Nile, The C Word, Cosi, and SHORT FILMS The Batsman and the Ballerina, Aria, Watching, and One Day in Hell.
RADIO includes Stone Blind, Magic Mobile, Bedroom Farce, Leave it to Psmith, School for Scandal, Andromache, An Enemy of the People, Lady Windermere’s Fan, and The Cherry Orchard.
February 2025
Emmanuel Akwafo
TRAINING De Montfort University.
THEATRE includes As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe; For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy at the Royal Court, New Diorama and in the West End (nominated for an Olivier Award); Sappho at Southwark Playhouse; The Bald Soprano at Leicester Square, The Spalding Suite at the Southbank Centre and on UK tour; The Ecstatic Bible at Melton Theatre; and pantomimes including Aladdin, Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk at the Lyric Hammersmith.
TELEVISION includes Sex Education, EastEnders, The Crown, 24: Live Another Day, M.I. High, and Grange Hill.
Emmanuel Akwafo is also a playwright and director.
February 2025
David Moorst
TRAINING LAMDA.
THEATRE includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Allelujah! at The Bridge; A Taste of Honey, Light Falls, and Into the Woods at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; To Kill A Mockingbird in the West End (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role); First Light at Chichester; Shopping and Fucking at the Lyric Hammersmith; Wonderland at Hampstead; and Violence & Son at the Royal Court (Evening Standard Theatre Award for Emerging Talent and Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Newcomer).
TELEVISION includes Larkin, Killing Eve, 1944: Should We Bomb Auschwitz?, Grantchester, Partners in Crime, and Holby City.
FILM includes Blitz, William Tell, Peterloo, and Waiting for the Barbarians.
February 2025
Paul Adeyefa
THEATRE includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2019 at The Bridge; Women Beware Women at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; The Mirror and the Light in the West End; Recognition at Fairfield Hall, Croydon; and Bellringers at Hampstead.
TELEVISION includes Cucumber, Ransome, The Bay, DCI Banks, Bancroft and Good Omens 1 & 2.
April 2025
Hilson Agbangbe
TRAINING LAMDA.
THEATRE Wonderboy on tour, his first professional job, for which he was nominated for an Offie as Best Performer.
April 2025
Bella Aubin
TRAINING RADA, graduating in 2024.
THEATRE includes Macbeth at the Lyric Hammersmith.
April 2025
Jemima Brown
TRAINING London Contemporary Dance School, graduating in 2015 with a First Class BA (Hons).
DANCE includes, recently, Dance Captain for Why Am I So Single? in the West End and Assistant Choreographer for Tim Burton’s Wednesday on TV. Other work includes national and international tours with Tom Dale Company (winning Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding Female Modern Performance for her solo Surge); and work with Gary Clarke Company, James Cousins Company, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, Marikiscrycrycry, and Avant Garde Dance Company. She has also performed for such artists as Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga, Sam Smith, Jamie XX, Paloma Faith, Fleur East and Ellie Goulding.
MUSIC Jemima Brown is also a singer/songwriter who releases music under the name MYMA, including her EP, Alter Ego.
April 2025
Nina Cassells
TRAINING Guildhall, graduating in 2024.
THEATRE includes Swive at Shakespeare’s Globe; The Crucible at The Yard; and Playfight at the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe, transferring to Bristol Old Vic and Soho Theatre.
TELEVISION Wild Cherry.
April 2025
Kat Collings
TRAINING Tring Park School for the Performing Arts and Rambert.
THEATRE includes The Lion King in the West End; and Orphée for English National Opera.
FILM includes Barbie, Snow White, Paddington in Peru, Birds of Paradise, and the short film Rally.
April 2025
Adam Cunis
TRAINING University of Exeter.
THEATRE includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2019) at The Bridge; The Woman in the Moon and Macbeth Storytelling at Shakespeare’s Globe; Othello and The Massacre at Paris at the Rose Bankside; Tamburlaine the Great at the Tristan Bates; and Measure for Measure at Baron’s Court Theatre.
TELEVISION includes Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.
April 2025
Ali Goldsmith
TRAINING London Contemporary Dance School.
THEATRE includes Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 at the Donmar Warehouse; Volcano for Attic Projects; The Hunt at St Ann’s Warehouse, New York; Cold War at the Almeida; and The Burnt City and The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable for Punchdrunk.
DANCE includes Coal and Wasteland for Gary Clarke Company; The Ephemeral Life of an Octopus, Toys and Starving Dingoes for Léa Tirabasso; and Dancehall for Emma Martin Dance/United Fall.
TELEVISION includes The Third Day: Autumn.
FILM includes Romeo + Juliet, Rebecca, Mary Queen of Scots and The Mummy.
MUSIC VIDEOS include Remember The Voice (Joan as Police Woman), Zero (Ólafur Arnalds), Monkey Business (Pet Shop Boys), You’re Not Alone Any More (Piet Row), Menta (Marcoss), Kings and Queens (Sparky in the Clouds), and Aux Echos (Evergreen).
OPERA includes: The Indian Queen and Marnie for English National Opera.
April 2025
Hollie Hales
TRAINING Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
THEATRE includes After Liverpool at The Albany; Henry V at the Rose Bankside; Reunion at Theatre 503; Volpone at the Cockpit; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Waterloo East; A Christmas Carol at the Charles Dickens Museum; and An Evening of Pride and Prejudice at Jane Austen’s House.
AUDIO Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire and The Big Smoke Variety Show.
April 2025
Molly Hewitt-Richards
TRAINING Italia Conti.
THEATRE includes The Secret Garden at Regent’s Park.
TELEVISION includes Code of Silence and Casualty.
April 2025
Felicity Montagu
THEATRE includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Bridge in 2019; The Deep Blue Sea at the Ustinov, Bath; Pride and Prejudice at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; Quartermaine’s Terms in the West End; Matchbox Theatre at Hampstead; The Shaughraun and Angels in America at the National Theatre; Susan’s Breasts and The Knocky at the Royal Court Upstairs; Unsuitable for Adults at the Bush; Are You Sitting Comfortably at Watford Palace; Macbeth at Nuffield Southampton; and Up on the Roof at the Donmar Warehouse.
TELEVISION Recent TV includes playing Lynn in This Time with Alan Partridge, Beyond Paradise, Black Ops, HullRaisers, Tom Jones, Mapp and Lucia, Landscapers, The Train, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Durrells, Vanity Fair, Hank Zipzer, Sally4Ever, Zapped, Father Brown, The Tunnel, Butterfly, The End of The Fucking World, Brassic, Urban Myths, Brief Encounters, Little Cracker: Baby Le Blonde, Nighty Night, Suburban Shootout, Doc Martin, The Boy in the Dress, Death on The Tyne, Hear the Silence, No Holds Barred, I’m Alan Partridge, Wish Me Luck, Coming Through, Ffizz, This is David Lander, All New Alexei Sayle Show, Tumbledown; and many guest appearances including Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV, Lead Balloon, Outnumbered, Porridge, M.I. High, Trust, Chinese Burn, Skins, The Road to Brexit, Sister Boniface Mysteries, and You, Me & Them.
FILM includes Bridget Jones’s Diary, and more recently, Fisherman, Miss Marx, Censor, Resistance, Dad’s Army, Confetti, Hank Zipzer’s Christmas Catastrophe, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, I Want Candy, Blackball, and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.
Lennin Nelson-McClure
TRAINING National Centre for Circus Arts – Aerial Arts.
THEATRE includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2019 at The Bridge; Cinderella at Theatre at the Mill, Belfast; Little Amal at Gulliver’s Eggs-traordinary Tale and The Big Dream in Belfast; Spark Steals The Show at Young at Art Festival; Wastebusters at Lyric, Belfast; Elves Got Talent and Grimms Hotel for Cahoots NI; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Firkin Crane, Cork; A Modern Gatsby at Underbelly Festival, London; Even the Stones at Jackson’s Lane; Wake The Giant at Warrenpoint; and The Spectacular Aladdin at SSE Arena, Belfast.
TEACHING Lennin Nelson-McClure also teaches circus and theatre across the UK.
@lenninmcclure
April 2025
Jem Rose
TRAINING East 15 Acting School.
THEATRE This is her professional stage debut.
April 2025
Dominic Semwanga
TRAINING The Brit School and the National Youth Theatre Rep Company.
THEATRE This is his professional stage debut.
April 2025
Lily Simpkiss
TRAINING Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
THEATRE This is her professional stage debut.
April 2025
Divesh Subaskaran
TRAINING Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, BA Hons.
THEATRE Playing Pi in the UK and international tour of The Life of Pi.
April 2025
David Webber
THEATRE includes Small Island, Barber Shop Chronicles, Death and the King’s Horseman, and Leave Taking at the National Theatre; Watch on the Rhine at the Donmar; A Place for We at the Park for Talawa; The High Table at the Bush / Birmingham Rep; The Hudsucker Proxy at the Nuffield Southampton / Liverpool Playhouse; When Blair Had Bush and Bunga for Lee Menzies; Catch 22 for Northern Stage; Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic; The Government Inspector at the Young Vic; Twelfth Night at Nottingham Playhouse; The Wizard of Oz and Night and Day at Theatre Royal Northampton; The Big Life in the West End; What’s in the Cat at the Royal Court; Master Harold and the Boys at Southwark Playhouse; Othello and The Sneeze for Good Company; The Bassett Table and Hiawatha at Bristol Old Vic; Flyin’ West, The Looking Glass, King Lear, The Lion, Smile Orange, The Road, and Antony and Cleopatra (also Liverpool Everyman) for Talawa; The Beatification of Area Boy at West Yorkshire Playhouse; Downfall at Manchester Court; No-one Writes to the Colonel at the Lyric Hammersmith; and Remembrance at the Tricycle.
FILM includes Hard Truths, The Children Act, Captain Phillips, Broken, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, London Voodoo, All or Nothing, 51st State, Among Giants, The Avengers, and Getting Hurt.
TELEVISION includes My Lady Jane, Get Millie Black, The Bastard The Son and The Devil Himself, Death in Paradise, Year of the Rabbit, The Educatoror, Chewing Gum, Holby City, Youngers, Nan, The Royal Bodyguard, How Not to Live Your Life, Being Human, No Heroics, Pieces of a Silver Lining, Funland, The Taming of the Shrew, EastEnders, Grass, London’s Burning, Homie & Away, The Knock, Accused, Prime Suspect, 2 Point 4 Children, Coronation Street, and Brittas Empire.
RADIO includes Forty-Three Fifty-Nine.
April 2025
Creative Team
William Shakespeare
Nicholas Hytner
Bunny Christie
Christina Cunningham
Theatre includes Alys, Always and Julius Caesar at The Bridge; Chess for ENO; Grief is the Thing With Feathers for Black Box and O’Reilly, Ireland, The Barbican and St Ann’s Warehouse, NY; A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer (Complicité), People, Places and Things and As You Like It for the National Theatre; The Kid Stays in the Picture and The Nether for the Royal Court; Chimerica for the Almeida (also West End); The Master and Margarita, A Disappearing Number, Shun-kin, Measure for Measure, A Minute Too Late, Pet Shop Boys Meet Eisenstein, Strange Poetry, The Elephant Vanishes, The Noise of Time, Light and Mnemonic, all for Complicité at the Barbican, National, Almeida and Duchess, and tours in the UK, Europe, the USA and Japan; and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui for National Actors’ Theatre, New York.
Opera includes The Rake’s Progress for Aix en Provence Festival, Dutch National Opera; The Snow Maiden and Hansel & Gretel for Opéra North; Tristan and Isolde for ENO; Benjamin dernier nuit (world premiere) for Opéra National de Lyon; The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Importance of Being Earnest for the Royal Opera House; A Dog’s Heart for Dutch National Opera, ENO, La Scala, Milan and Lyon Opera; and Nabucco for Nancy Opéra and Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier.
Dance includes Ballet Spiegelungen Verweile Doch (world premiere) for Saarländisches Staatstheater; In Absentia at Sadler’s Wells; Sun for Hofesh Schechter Company at Sadler’s Wells and international tours; and Just for Show for DV8 at the National Theatre and international tours.
June 2019
Bunny Christie
Arlene Phillips
Grant Olding
Bruno Poet
Paul Arditti
Susanna Peretz
Theatre includes Noises Off at the Garrick Theatre; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Very Very Very Dark Matter and Julius Caesar at The Bridge; Hedda Tesman and Plenty at Chichester; Death of a Salesman at the Young Vic; Ghost Stories at the Lyric Hammersmith; Peter Pan at Regent’s Park; The Last Ship on UK tour; Pity, Prudes, Gun Dog, Girls and Boys, Road, How To Hold Your Breath, Linda, Birdland, The Nether, The Kid Stays In The Picture, Anatomy of a Suicide, The Twits, X and Hangmen (also West End) at the Royal Court; Don Juan in Soho and The Exorcist in the West End; Machinal, The Game, Mr Burns, Medea, The Treatment, Carmen Disruption, Mary Stuart (also West End), Oresteia (also Trafalgar Studios) and Hamlet (also West End) at the Almeida; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at the Old Vic; The Grinning Man at Bristol Old Vic/Trafalgar Studios; Wings at the Young Vic; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie in the West End; The Humans at BAM, NY; Bugsy Malone, Tipping the Velvet, City of Glass and Jubilee at the Lyric Hammersmith; The Way of the World, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Teddy Ferrara at the Donmar Warehouse; and Witness for the Prosecution at London Court House.
Opera includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Aldeburgh Festival; Alice in Wonderland, Where the Wild Things Are, Dark Mirror and Curlew River at the Barbican/US tour; The Illuminated Heart at Lincoln Centre NY; Greek for Scottish Opera/Festival Theatre, Edinburgh; and Rigoletto on Irish tour.
Film & TV includes The Show, Electric Dreams, In The Dark Half, His Heavy Heart, Jimmy’s End, Showpieces and Skeletons (BAFTA Nominee and Michael Powell Award-winner).
Other work includes collaborations with Alan Moore on his comic book series Providence and the multimedia project As Big As the Sky with artist Ai Weiwei. Her work has also been exhibited at Sprueth Magers Art Gallery.
November 2019
Kate Waters
Theatre includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Young Marx and Julius Caesar at The Bridge; The Tragedy of Macbeth at the Almeida; Small Island, Salome, The Plough and the Stars, Othello, As You Like It, Our Country’s Good, Rules For Living, Hotel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (also West End), The Comedy of Errors, One Man, Two Guvnors (also West End, Broadway & world tour), Frankenstein, Season’s Greetings, Hamlet, Women Beware Women and War Horse (also West End) for the National Theatre.
Other stage work includes Venice Preserved, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Two Noble Kinsmen, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, King Lear, Love’s Sacrifice and Dr Faustus for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Get Up Stand Up, The Windsors: Endgame, Sweat, The Lieutenant of Innishmore, Tina – The Musical, King Lear, Noises Off, Hand to God and From Here to Eternity in the West End; King Lear and Black Comedy at Chichester Festival Theatre; The Last Goodbye at The Old Globe, San Diego, California; Cyrano de Bergerac, The Maids, Macbeth, Richard III, East Is East, The Ruling Class, The Hothouse, and The Pride for Jamie Lloyd Company; The Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, Dr Faustus and Henry V at Shakespeare’s Globe; Liberian Girl at the Royal Court; Urinetown The Musical at St James Theatre and West End; Don Giovanni at the ROH; Henry IV and Julius Caesar at the Donmar Warehouse and St Ann’s Warehouse NYC; Noises Off (and West End); The Duchess of Malfi and Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic; Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Peter Pan, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Porgy and Bess and Lord of the Flies at Regent’s Park; Disgraced at the Bush; Bugsy Malone, Saved, Blasted and Herons at the Lyric, Hammersmith; and many productions for major regional theatres.
Television includes My Policeman and regular fight direction on Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks. She also choreographed the fights for Coronation Street Live 2015.
November 2021