A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Join the revellers this Summer for our ★★★★ ‘beautifully tender’ (WhatsOnStage) and ‘brilliantly chaotic’ (The Guardian) A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
On Midsummer’s eve, four rebellious young lovers, a band of ambitious artisan players, and a feuding Fairy King and Queen all cross paths in a riotously enchanted forest. When the shapeshifting, mischief-making Puck, the Fairy King’s servant, is ordered to cast spells on everyone, what could possibly go wrong?
All hell breaks loose as nature, and human nature, are turned upside down and inside out; the forest’s new inhabitants are in for a wild and unsettling night of love, jealousy and utter confusion… but once the nightmare is over, will life be a dream again by morning?
Directed by Pentabus Theatre’s Artistic Director Elle While (The Merry Wives of Windsor, 2019; As You Like It & Hamlet, 2018) and featuring Shakespeare’s Globe’s Artistic Director Michelle Terry as Puck.
‘So quick bright things come to confusion’
– Act I, scene 1
Content guidance: The play contains language of violence, ableism, misogyny and racism, and scenes of a sexual nature. Please contact the ticketing team on 020 7401 9919 or [email protected] if you would like further details on the play’s content.
DETAILS
TICKETS
Galleries (Seating) £65 – £25
Standing £10, £5
Hundreds of £5 tickets for every performance, hundreds more at £10. Book early for the best prices.
This event is on-site in the Globe Theatre
Running time 2 hours and 35 minutes including an interval
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Photography: Johan Persson
Art Direction: Irene Omodeo Zorini
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THE COMPANY
Introducing the company of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Percussion
Zands Duggan
Saxophone/Clarinet
Sophie Creaner
Musical Director/Saxophone/Clarinet
Zac Gvi
Trumpet/Hang Drum
Adrian Woodward
Tuba
Hanna Mbuya
Associate Director
Indiana Lown-Collins
Casting Director
Becky Paris CDG
Composer
James Maloney
Costume Design
takis
Costume Supervisor
Sabia Smith
Director
Elle While
Fight & Intimacy Directors
RC Annie Ltd.
Globe Associate – Movement
Glynn MacDonald
Magic Consultant
John Bulleid
Movement Director
Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster
Set Design
Wills (Paul Williams)
Voice and Text Coach
Tess Dignan
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