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Placing the world of dreams centre stage, this new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Globe invites us to experience the theatre as we might imagine it to have been in Shakespeare’s day – raucous, rousing, participative, colourful, musical and a damn good evening out. Directed by Dominic Dromgoole. They make their initial entrance performing a delightfully nifty clog dance and you really feel these are working men who know each other intimately. Director: Emma Rice Year: 2016 Rent: £4.99 Own: £12.99 Send as Gift: £12.99. Few play teenage boys as well as Tennyson (as he proved so thoroughly in the Donmar’s Making Noise Quietly), and here he brings all the sulky, gangling awkwardness of a 14-year-old Etonian to the fairy – more affectedly brattish, perhaps, than is necessary, but ultimately rather the more human for it. Photograph: Jane Hobson Across town at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre , this comedy of errors takes a much darker turn. His litmus test for success was the response of his theatre-goers, and it is oft-quoted how he’d have been aghast at his plays being studied in depth. By Charles Spencer 31 May 2013 • 15:36 pm. The fairies are truly startling creatures here, sporting antlers and animal faces, their bodies daubed with earth. Now, it should be said that A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM is a hard show to mess up. Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night. The original performance took place at the Globe Theatre, London, in summer 2018. There was a time when summer didn't seem quite seasonally correct without a version of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' to experience. Christopher Logan’s Flute, fluttering casually around a pillar on the too-small, makeshift stage as Thisbe, manages to be bring both poignancy and complete hilarity to his brief episodes, while Fergal McElherron is all deranged extremes as Quince. Directed by Emma Rice. Yet there is emotional depth as well as humour in this production. He reveals his contempt for poor Peter Quince by pretending to forget his name and when he is denied the chance of playing the lion he walks out in a hilarious hissy fit. In Dromgoole’s reading we are reminded that this is more than a passive royal consort, that Hippolyta is in fact Queen of the Amazons. The audience is left in no doubt that Titania’s feelings for the transformed Bottom are entirely carnal. Light by contrast feels more at home as the rigid Theseus, never quite releasing into the savage hedonism of a fairy king who clasps Puck in a lingering embrace and howls animal-like in his rage. A Midsummer Night's Dream is at Shakespeare's Globe until 12 October, 2013 There’s a quiet insistence on anarchy through the production; Dromgoole’s fairy world is ferocious rating But all are mere foils to the obliterating comedy of Pearce Quigley’s Bottom (pictured below with Terry). Theatre review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s Globe, London. Dromgoole balances his unusual elements with plenty of universal belly-laughs and by-play, and the result is that Globe-patented blend of intelligence and rampant fun. Who couldn’t love a production that comes with its own Tudor health-and-safety sight-gag, a dead dog (trust me) and a clog-dancing troupe of Mechanicals? A Midsummer Night's Dream review – Emma Rice makes a rowdy Globe debut An irreverent evening … Bottom (Ewan Wardrop) and Titania (Meow Meow) in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Of course, the story is deliciously ludicrous. While anchored by these two, this is a true ensemble comedy, and predictably it’s the Mechanicals who steal the show. Only Matthew Tennyson’s Puck stands apart. Terry makes for an imperious, haughty queen, but is rather more appealing as the girlish-wild Titania, scrapping and flirting with her Oberon. Book now and this recording will be available … A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's Globe online review - a seasonal treat . Midsummer’s Eve may still be a month away and the evenings more bracing than balmy, but despite a serious chill still in the air the Globe Theatre yesterday proved yet again that it exists in its own microclimate. There is also a beguiling freshness and urgency about the young lovers. Director: Dominic Dromgoole Year: 2013 Rent: £5.99 Own: £11.99 Send as Gift: £11.99. 8 JUNE – 30 NOVEMBER AT HOME £3.50. Share. Dec 13, 2013 - Review of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta.One subplot involves a conflict between four Athenian lovers. … It’s still available to rent or buy on Globe Player all year round. It's well written, it's well structured, the characters are so much fun to enjoy, … Limp and camp where we might expect him to be blustering and macho, he limp-wrists his way through battles with Quince (taking the text more a basis for free improv than as Gospel), triumphing with studied nonchalance. It's a simply wonderful show. It brings new audiences to … He suggests a vein of northern melancholy too, and he is also extremely touchy. With Steffan Donnelly, Huss Garbiya, Tala Gouveia, Tom Lawrence. My! An enchanted forest charms a disenchanted court. Now, it should be said that A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM is a hard show to mess up. John Light’s commanding and highly physical Oberon, who is constantly shinning up the pillars of the Globe’s stage on ropes, suggests real shame when he sees his beloved doting on an ass, while Matthew Tennyson proves a fascinatingly ethereal Puck. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare c. 1595 or 1596. But the greatest pleasure of this production is the rude mechanicals. After so quirky a Tempest to open the season it’s a nice change of pace to see a classic Midsummer Night’s Dream. 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