Date/Time
Date(s) - 25 Aug 2011
8:00 PM - 10:30 PM

Location
Glen Street Theatre, Belrose

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Captioned Performance: Saturday, 27 August at 2pm and 8pm

By William Shakespeare

Arts Radar brings us a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Director Eamon Flack has turned this great Shakespearean classic into a grand, decadent and sad celebration – a party unfolding on stage, shot through with karaoke ballads and comedy.

With a cast of eight (and a half), new doublings and reordered scenes, this is A Midsummer Night’s Dream as it’s never been done before. It is an exploration of a hedonistic pursuit of love, pleasure and freedom – that comes at a cost. The seasons have gone awry, the grownups are in denial, and the young are randy with hope and despair. Suddenly, in the midst of overwhelming uncertainty, four young lovers take a mighty stab at happiness.

Eamon said, “This play is a vivid reminder of what it’s like to fall in love for the first time – the hope, pain, thrill, extreme amazement, profound confusion, awful misunderstanding and brilliant aliveness – that’s why we’ve been putting on this play for 400 years and still haven’t got enough of it.”

Running Time: 2 hours and 20 minutes, including interval.

Cast: Elizabeth Blackmore, Kit Brookman, Katharine Cullen, Andrew Lees, Anya Poukchanski, Tim Spencer, Tim Walter

Director: Eamon Flack

Designer: Alistair Watts

Lighting Designer: Chris Page

Sound Designer: Stefan Gregory