A Midsummer Night's Dream (2019)
Overview of the production
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The theatre becomes the forest – 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.
Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones), Oliver Chris (Green Wing), David Moorst (Allelujah!) and Hammed Animashaun (The Festival) lead the cast as Titania, Oberon, Puck and Bottom. The production also re-unites the team responsible for last year’s smash-hit Julius Caesar. Direction is by Nicholas Hytner, design by Bunny Christie, costume by Christina Cunningham, lighting by Bruno Poet and sound by Paul Arditti. Joining the team will be composer Grant Olding, movement director Arlene Phillips, and associate movement director James Cousins.
"This is the most accomplished Shakespeare production of [Nicholas Hytner's] I’ve ever encountered"
The Daily Telegraph ★★★★★
"Could be the most joyously affirmative Shakespeare production I’ve ever seen"
The Metro ★★★★★
"A warm, exuberant celebration of the transforming power of love."
Financial Times ★★★★
"Five stars might not be enough"
Observer ★★★★★
General Information
Length
Approx 2hr 20min
Awards
Hammed Animashaun
- WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Play
- Critics Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance
- Ian Charleson Award (nomination)
Bunny Christie
- Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Design
Isis Hainsworth
- Ian Charleson Award (nomination)
Kit Young
- Ian Charleson Award (nomination)
Mousetrap Award for Best Play 2020
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Bottom's Dream
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Hippolyta and the Amazons
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At a crucial moment in the final play of Aeschylus’ Oresteia, Athena explains how the rocky ‘Hill of Ares’ or ‘Areopagus’ in central Athens, which rivals her own Acropolis in size, received its name. A terrifying tribe of warlike Amazons…
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Thou Art Translated
Ayanna Thompson
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play that is deeply invested in exploring what happens when situations, locations, people, plots, and objects change, move, migrate, or to use the play’s own terminology “translate”. Does moving from…
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