A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s most magical comedy of love, mischief and donkeys, comes roaring into Southwark Playhouse Borough this September ( 5 – 27), in a production for anyone aged 8 – 88, the perfect introduction for those new to Shakespeare's plays, but also for those who wish they were shorter and funnier. 

The play is set in London, 1905. On a wet and dreary afternoon, the Jenkins siblings decide to put on a play to stave off their boredom. Nancy insists it should feature a Queen and have at least sixteen characters. Robert will only join in if he gets to die a horrible death and reckons there should be some pirates. And Cecil wants to be a lion. and a fairy! 

There can’t possibly be a story mad enough to fit all of this in, surely? 

Directed by Toby Hulse the cast includes Martin Bassindale (Hellboy: The Crooked Man), Daisy Ann Fletcher (The Doncastrian Chalk Circle, National Theatre and CAST), Fintan Hayeck (Sleeping Beauty, Oxford Playhouse), Lara Grace Ilori (Up(Beat), Southwark Playhouse Borough), Andy Umerah (Ted Lasso, Apple TV) and Dewi Wykes (The Famous Five – A New Musical, Chichester Festival Theatre) will portray the Jenkins’ siblings.

Director Toby Hulse comments “ What is exciting about the play is that it has all sorts of humour in it, from the sort of painful observation of human behaviour that we might expect from The Office, to the sort of daft slapstick we might expect from The Chuckle Brothers, to the sort of outright nonsense we might expect from Morecambe and Wise. This will be a production for everyone - those who know the play and those who don't, Shakespeare-lovers and Bard-a-phobes, regular theatre-goers and those coming to see it for the very first time”. 

Come along and revel in our (end of) Midsummer madness, whether you’re a lover, a fighter or maybe a bit of both…

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