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
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bridge Theatre
The Bridge Theatre, London
Our Review
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
24th February 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: