A Midsummer Night's Dream
From: Tuesday, 5th March 2013
To: Saturday, 9 March 2013
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Synopsis
On a midsummer's night Hermia and her lover Lysander flee from Athens and Demetrius - the man Hermia's father favours as a son-in-law. Demetrius follows, pursued by Helena who loves him in spite of being spurned in favour of Hermia. On the same night Bottom and his friends leave Athens to find somewhere quiet to rehearse their play which is to be performed at the wedding feast of Duke Theseus. Drawn into the woods they enter a world of magic, mystery and wonder.
Our Review:
Roz Carter - 5 March 2013
A Midsummer’s Night Dream is one of those plays that is incredibly easy to do right and surprisingly difficult to make dull and Custom/Practice’s production treads a very fine line between the two. The play itself is framed as an after-school detention with teenagers in uniforms moaning about having to read Shakespeare when an enigmatic teacher/ Puck snaps his fingers and the action starts. Unfortunately this framing device is lost in the main body of the play and ultimately detracts from the obvious flow of the action.
The head-strong Demetrius and love-sick Helena Naoufal Ousellam and Rebecca Loudon are evenly matched in wills, which gives an interesting battle-like quality to their wooing. Both have excellent comic timing and give wholly convincing performances, which contrasts their counter-parts Clare McMahon and Daniel Francis-Swaby. As Hermia McMahon seems bored with her part, delivering her lines in a mono...
Creative
Shakespeare (Author)
Custom/Practice (Producer)
Assembly (Producer)
TEG Productions (in association with the Almeida Theatre) (Producer)
Rae McKen (Director)
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