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... 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.
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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
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bridge Theatre Performance Dates & Times
The Bridge Theatre
Address:
3 Potters Fields Park, London, SE1 2SG
Nearest tube:
Borough
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