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'Gregory Doran's world class production... funnier than anything currently on stage, screen or television'
Daily Mail
A feast of magic, music, humour and spectacle, A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies. The boundaries between reality and imagination merge as the characters find themselves caught in a web of magic in the Athenian woods.
This production revives Gregory Doran's hugely popular and critically acclaimed show from the 2005 Comedies Season.
Joe Dixon, who played Oberon in the 2005 production, returns to the Company to take the role of Bottom. His other RSC credits include Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, also part of the 2005 Comedies Season, as well as Paris in The Roman Actor (2003) and Mendoza in The Malcontent (2002). The role of Oberon will be played by Peter de Jersey, who last performed with the Company as Antiochus in Believe What You Will, Evander in A New Way To Please You and Macro in Sejanus: His Fall, all as part of the 2005 Gunpowder Season.
Also returning to the Company is Mark Hadfield, who takes the role of Puck following his most recent RSC performance as Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales (2005). Mark's other theatre credits include 39 Steps for Yorkshire Playhouse and Don Juan for the Peter Hall Company, as well as his recent performance as Grivet in the National Theatre's production of Therese Raquin.
Dates:
Opening: 15th January 2009
Limited engagement until 7th February 2009
Cast:
David Ajala - Cobweb
Sam Alexander - Philostrate
Edward Bennett - Demetrius
Ricky Champ - Snout
Ewen Cummins - Snug
Robert Curtis - Theseus
Tom Davey - Lysander
Peter De Jersey - Oberon
Joe Dixon - Bottom
Kathryn Drysdale - Hermia
Samuel Dutton - Mustardseed
Ryan Gage - Flute
Mariah Gale - 1st Fairy
Mark Hadfield - Puck
Andrea Harris - Titania
Jim Hooper - Starveling
Keith Osborn - Egeus
Roderick Smith - Quince
Riann Steele - Hippolyta
Zoe Thorne - Moth
Natalie Walter - Helena
Creative:
Author, William Shakespeare
Director, Gregory Doran
Designer Francis O'connor
Lighting Tim Mitchell
Music Paul Englishby
Sound Martin Slavin Assisted By Jeremy Dunn
Movement Director Michael Ashcroft
Fight Director Terry King
Audience: A Midsummer Night's Dream is suitable for all audiences
Running time: 3 hours including a 20 minute interval
Show times: tba
'One of the two or three truly great productions of this great play I have ever seen'
Sunday Times
'A lovely production, combining hilarity with a great heart and a real sense of wonder'
Daily Telegraph
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