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This performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was in development over a nine-month period from September 2015-May 2016, while this group of prisoners studied, rehearsed, and performed the play.
Read MoreA punk-rock, dynamic and visceral take on Shakespeare’s classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream interpreted by the 3rd year students of the Théâtre du Pommier in Neuchâtel (CH) as they end their training in drama.
Read MoreEmma Rice’s inaugural production as Artistic Director is a highly-charged, modernized adaption of one of Shakespeare’s most loved comedies.
The lovers scene from A Midsummer Nights Dream, commisioned by Darlington Green Theatre, performed as flash-mob theatre in the Cornmill in Darlington, surrounded by unsuspecting shoppers.
Read MoreMorecambe’s first Shakespearean festival is set to run over the weekend of Shakespeare’s birthday. Alongside theatrical performances there will also be music, dance events, art and poetry readings. The theatrical productions include: Twelve Nights; Romeo and Juliet; Shakespearean Murder Mystery; Puck’s Dream; A Shakespeare Gallery; Henry V; The Tempest; and The Play’s the Thing.
Read MoreThis production was part of the events sponsored by Texas A&M University (College Station, TX) during the "First Folio: The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare" traveling exhibition. Texas A&M was selected to host an exhibit of Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623 from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. This exhibition was to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare, and one site in each state was selected to host the exhibit.
Read MoreAthens. Midnight. You have just seen your friendʼs head turned into that of an ass'. So, what do you do? In the middle of rehearsing a play five mechanicals drop their props, run into town, hit a dive bar, and figure out what to do next. Go back and get him? Carry on learning lines? Get a round in? After many questions, it becomes apparent that they may not have come back from the forest alone…
Action to the Word and Lower the Tone Theatre are proud to present a new play about the mechanicals from A Midsummer Night's Dream and what really happened after Bottom gained an ass's head. Part of Catford-upon-Avon Festival.
The Reversed Shakespeare Company presents a version of A Midsummer Night's Dream where the gender of each character is switched.
Read More“This tale of magic tricks, lover tiffs and showmanship, we’ll deliver with a modern twist. Come and join us at the Duke’s Oak as we transform Action Mantua into an Athenian wood. Enjoy one of Shakespeare’s ‘most lamentable’ comedies in true Wildcard fashion and watch this world of wonder unfold before your very eyes.” A crowdfunded, accessible, one hour version of Shakespeare's fairy-filled play which is part of the Catford-upon-Avon festival.
Read More“A salt and pepper pot for the king and queen. A vase for the prince. A matchbox for the servant. A toilet roll tube for the Innkeeper. A water bottle for the messenger.
In Complete Works six performers create condensed versions of each and every Shakespeare play, comically and intimately retelling them, using a collection of everyday objects as stand-ins for the characters on the one-metre stage of an ordinary table top."
A Midsummer Night's Dream performed by Junior year students of Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. After almost a year of intensive classical training at Shakespeare’s Globe, this workshop performance was a culmination and celebration of the Rutger’s Conservatory residency.
Read MorePart of the global programme of events celebrating Shakespeare's work in the 400th anniversary year organized by the British Council and the GREAT Britain campaign
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This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
