The Bridge is billing its new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream as immersive, but in fact it's just old-fashioned promenade for the groundlings in the pit, who mill around or are shunted about a bit as the actors appear on various platforms that rise and descend around them, mostly containing variations of beds, or occasionally take to the air on bungee-like circus trapezes. The rest of the audience is seated in galleries around the full perimeter of the playing space. Read more
Shakespeare’s great comedy plunges its audience into the heart of an enchanted forest, a place of change and infinite possibility. In the Bridge’s immersive production, you sit close up to the action, or follow it on foot into a dream world of feuding fairies and uncontrollable desire.
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bridge Theatre Performance Information
3rd June 2019
11th June 2019
15th August 2020
31st August 2019
31st August 2019
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bridge Theatre Performance Dates & Times
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bridge Theatre Cast and Creative
By:
William Shakespeare
Director:
Nicholas Hytner
Lighting:
Bruno Poet
Sound:
Paul Arditti
Design:
Bunny Christie
Choreography:
Arlene Phillips
Costume:
Christina Cunningham
Cast list:
Paul Adeyefa, Hammed Animashaun, Charlotte Atkinson, Tessa Bonham Jones, Oliver Chris, Gwendoline Christie, Jermaine Freeman, Isis Hainsworth, Chipo Kureya, Francis Lovehall, Kevin McMonagle, Ami Metcalf, Jamie-Rose Monk, Felicity Montagu, David Moorst, Lennin Nelson-McClure, Rachel Tolzman, Jay Webb, Kit Young
The Bridge Theatre Venue Information
Address:
The Bridge Theatre, 3 Potters Fields Park, London, SE1 2SG
Nearest tube:
Borough
Seating Plan: