A Midsummer Night's Dream, Baltic House Theatre Company

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Presented in Russian
Touring

Baltic House Theatre Company

Performances Include:
August 1, 2016 as part of International Shakespeare Festival in Gdansk, Poland

Director: Silviu Purcărete
Set and costume design: Dragos Buhagiar
Music: Vasile Sirli
Stage managers: Svetlana Petrachenkova, Julia Prokhorova

Cast:
Konstantin Anisimov,
Leonid Mikhailovsky,
Roman Driablov,
Alexander Muravitsky,
Natalia Parashkina,
Maria Mescheryakova,
Alexandra Mamkaeva,
Varvara Markevich,
Anatoly Dubanov,
Alexander Peredkov,
Leonid Alimov,
Vladimir Boykov,
Andrey Arkhipov,
Oleg Korobkin,
Natalia Vinogradova,
Victoria Zhilina,
Valentina Korovnikova,
Denis Gilmanov,
Anna Schetinina,
Vladimir Shteba,
Kirill Gusev

The most romantic play of all the comedies by Shakespeare. This magical extravaganza is filled with fantastical creatures, the reality appears in the play in such an unusual way that it creates a feeling of dreams for spectators.

“Before you can prepare such a dream, precisely this dream and no other, you have to show the forest. Athens not Arden. A forest that is strange and hostile to the protagonists, certainly not idyllic. But more important than the forest is always Shakespeare’s Athens. What kind of city is it, what kind of state? Who rules there and how? What are the lovers running away from? Why is the forest less terrifying than the city? […] This Romanian Dream… in St Petersburg … is strange and uncommon. Sometimes forceful and political, at other times manifestly aesthetic. This is Shakespeare with an excellently read dark psychology, but at the same time deliberately light, based on the vis comica of the actors, and without avoiding traditional devices.”—Łukasz Drewniak, teatralny.pl                 

For More Information:
http://baltic-house.ru/en/theatre/repertoire/4775/

http://festiwalszekspirowski.pl/en/home-2/programme/a-midsummer-nights-dream-2-en

Selected Reviews:
A review by our Researcher, Rowena Hawkins: http://playstosee.com/midsummer-nights-dream-2/           

Selected Academic Work:
http://research.gold.ac.uk/17122/