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In a project directed by Google’s Tom Uglow and the RSC’s Geraldine Collinge, people all over the world will be able to join the Royal Shakespeare Company live in Stratford-upon-Avon and online, as they present a one-off digital theatre project, Midsummer Night’s Dreaming. This creative experiment will take place over Midsummer weekend, 21 –24 June [...]

A new co-production of Stephen Sondheim’s dark and iconic musical of the demon barber of Fleet Street Sweeney Todd launches James Brining’s first season as Artistic Director of The West Yorkshire Playhouse. The production which runs from (26th September to 26th October) sees Brining revisit the production following his TMA Award winning production at Dundee [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Tom Morris Reviewer: Holly Spanner The Public Reviews Rating: From the creators of the incredible puppetry in War Horse, and their first collaboration since, director Tom Morris and South African Handspring Puppet Company have come together to create this new production of perhaps Shakespeare’s most popular comedy. A Midsummer Night’s Dream tells of love, [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Matthew Lenton Reviewer: Val Baskott The Public Reviews Rating: There’s not a gauze wing or giant flower or blazing sun in sight in Matthew Lenton’s vision of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The follow up to Wonderland, Lenton’s disturbing take on the sex industry which was acclaimed at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival and has on the surface little [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Max Rubin Reviewer: Vicki Goodwin The Public Reviews Rating: Lodestar Theatre has once more returned to Liverpool as part of the Liverpool Shakespeare Festival. Moving on from last year’s surroundings of St George’s Hall, they’ve set up base in the Royal Court Theatre, and it looks as though they’ve found the perfect stage [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Paul Gladwin Reviewer: Sheila Cornelius The Public Reviews Rating: Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner, but I can’t remember a better adaptation of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ than the sixties-inspired show at Coram’s Fields. A musical background of the Beatles’ greatest hits, arranged by Ruth Clarke-Irons, and a troupe of flower-power fairies, chimes perfectly [...]

Company: Guildford Shakespeare Company Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Charlotte Conquest Reviewer: Jane Pink The Public Reviews Rating:   In Athens preparations are underway for the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Amongst those joining the celebrations are Egeus and his daughter Hermia, whom her father wishes to see married to Demetrius. However Hermia loves Lysander and plans to [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Sean Holmes Composers: Chris Branch and Tom Haines Reviewer: Helen Jones The Public Reviews Rating: Filter Theatre Productions, in association with the Lyric Hammersmith and the Royal Exchange, have brought a production of Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Manchester. But this a not a production of Dream the likes of which you [...]