A Midsummer Night's Dream

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Annie Tyson

Performed by Gabriel Gómez, Zuza Podrazka, Ella Avron, Grace Oswell, Vasco Siromahov, Elena Schäfer, Alexandru Lucian Boariu, Meshi Koncsos, Hannah Brücher, Nicole Coman, Mafer Vera, Eva Politakis, Ananda Wenhammar & Victoria Sofía.

Important Information:

Running Time: 2 hours 15 minutes with intermission

Photography and recording of this performance is not permitted due to copyright regulations.

Please turn off your mobile phones. Mobile use is not permitted once the performance begins.

Entry Policy: No entry once the show begins

Synopsis

The world of the court, the workers, and the fairies collide to hilarious and occasionally terrifying effect in one of Shakespeare's most poetic and beloved plays.

Great celebrations are to be planned for the wedding of Theseus, Duke of Athens and Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, but their joy is interrupted by Egeus, a father with a grievance, insisting that his daughter, Hermia, marries the man of his choice. She is in love elsewhere and defies her father, with the result that she and her lover, Lysander, flee to the forest outside Athens, and are pursued by Demetrius, her father's choice, and her friend Helena, who is in love with Demetrius.

The forest, far from being a sanctuary, is a not altogether friendly place whether real world and that of the supernatural collide. In the forest Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the fairies have turned the world upside down as a result of a terrifying quarrel. Through the mischief of Oberon's servant Puck the lovers become entangled in Oberon’s revenge, and the resulting chaos tests their friendship almost beyond endurance. In addition, a group of workmen, amateur actors, meet in secret at midnight in the forest to rehearse a play, which they hope to perform at the Duke's wedding. It is too good an opportunity for Puck, and his delight in anarchy, to miss.