A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – giddy shenanigans with a brilliantly chaotic Puck
This bright, bold show tries to balance humour and darkness but tends to land on the silly side of things
Kate Wyver
23, May, 2023 @10:27 AM
The Lovers review – Shakespeare musical charms, but doesn’t always deliver
The Playhouse, Sydney Opera House
Bell Shakespeare’s first ever musical puts some pop into A Midsummer Night’s Dream – and it is good fun, if you don’t think too hard about it
Bell Shakespeare’s first ever musical puts some pop into A Midsummer Night’s Dream – and it is good fun, if you don’t think too hard about it
Cassie Tongue
29, Oct, 2022 @2:47 AM
A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – gleefully anarchic opening show
New playhouse kicks off with a boisterous, boundary-pushing production that is inventive enough to find fresh laughs in the mechanicals
Mark Fisher
28, Sep, 2022 @9:45 AM
Midsummer Mechanicals review – the Dream’s rude players deliver more merriment
Bottom, Quince, Flute and Patience make the young audience feel right at home in this affably silly show that puts Shakespeare in a spin
Chris Wiegand
08, Aug, 2022 @5:30 AM
A Blessed Bottom: how booming Brian inspired his daughter’s Shakespearean role
Rosalind Blessed explains how her force-of-nature father shaped her performance in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Rosalind Blessed
14, Jun, 2022 @6:18 AM
A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Cruise review – a tale of two audiences
Seated groundlings make history at the Globe’s carnivalesque Dream
Susannah Clapp
30, May, 2021 @9:30 AM
A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – the Globe’s giddy return
Goody-bag props, party-hatted fairies and a donkey-shaped piñata sweeten the bard’s dark comedy in a revival of Sean Holmes’s vibrant 2019 production
Chris Wiegand
27, May, 2021 @10:15 PM
Nick Cave joins RSC's hi-tech take on A Midsummer Night's Dream
The musician’s voice will be heard in the new online show, which combines virtual reality and live performance
Chris Wiegand
04, Mar, 2021 @1:37 PM
San Francisco Ballet: A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – two acts of pure dance run smooth
George Balanchine’s take on Shakespearean comedy may be more geometric than romantic, but the most delicate moments of this performance are truly enchanting
Lyndsey Winship
25, Jan, 2021 @12:01 AM
A midsummer night's sax comedy: the return of the lost Shakespeare jazz musical
It had the hottest musicians, the coolest singers – and Louis Armstrong playing Bottom. But Swingin’ the Dream was a $2m flop. Can the RSC breathe new life into this big band take on the bard?
James Shapiro
06, Jan, 2021 @6:00 AM
A Midsummer Night’s Zoom: isolation dramas reframe Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet become online daters unable to meet in a new project that celebrates freelance creatives
Chris Wiegand
19, Jun, 2020 @6:00 AM
Alexander Ekman: Eskapist; Midsummer Night's Dream review - audacious and unpredictable
Two dance works by the Swedish choreographer are visually stunning, meshing movement, theatre, design and music
Lyndsey Winship
27, Apr, 2020 @11:39 AM
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