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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Part of Summer 2023

Photography: Johan Persson
Art Direction: Irene Omodeo Zorini

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PHOTOS & VIDEOS

Feature trailer (2023)

Bottom's Dream (2023)

Puck's epilogue (2023)

Meet the Makers (2023)

Rehearsal trailer (2023)

Teaser Trailer (2023)

THE COMPANY

Introducing the company of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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