Performance

VenueSouthbank Centre
Other spaces: Royal Festival Hall, RFH, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Tuff Nutt Jazz Club
TownWest End
CountyGreater London
From22nd July 2015
To24th July 2015
When19:30
What is currently on at Southbank Centre (V423)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's DreamT01895706935
On a midsummer's night Hermia and her lover Lysander flee from Athens and Demetrius - the man Hermia's father favours as a son-in-law. Demetrius follows, pursued by Helena who loves him in spite of being spurned in favour of Hermia. On the same night Bottom and his friends leave Athens to find somewhere quiet to rehearse their play which is to be performed at the wedding feast of Duke Theseus. Drawn into the woods they enter a world of magic, mystery and wonder.
Author Shakespeare


Archive :: production:T01895706935, play:S2295, venue:V423
Current production:Work

(abridged)

Abridged. Garsington Opera's Artistic Director, Douglas Boyd, collaborates with Gregory Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, on a venture involving artists from both companies. Mendelssohn's shimmeringly beautiful and evocative music will bring fresh illumination to Shakespeare's brilliantly intertwined, triple-layered dream-world, where lovers, fairies and rude mechanicals confuse and pursue one another in a wood near Athens. Sung and spoken in English Queen Elizabeth Hall

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Company

Company Royal Shakespeare Company
Company Garsington Opera
Music Mendelssohn
Director Gregory Doran (creative guidance)
Director Owen Horsley (under the creative guidance of Gregory Doran)
Conductor Douglas Boyd
Performer Ross Armstrong (Lysander)
Performer Hedydd Dylan (Helena)
Performer David Collings (Egeus / Philostrate)
Performer Chris Lew Kum Hoi (Francis Flute / Mustardseed)
Performer Joan Iyiola (Hermia)
Performer Oliver Johnstone (Puck)
Performer Jake Mann (Robin Starvelling / Fairy 1)
Performer Simon Manyonda (Demetrius)
Performer Chris Nayak (Tom Snout / Pease Blossom)
Performer David Rintoul (Oberon / Theseus)
Performer Tim Speyer (Peter Quince / Moth)
Performer Forbes Masson (Bottom)
Performer Marty Cruikshank (Hippolyta / Titania)
Performer Sophie Khan Levy (Snug / Cobweb)
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