Immersive disco production of A Midsummer Night's Dream opens in London

The Donkey Show, an immersive production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, will return to London this summer.

The production was created and conceived by Randy Weiner and Diane Paulus and originally ran Off-Broadway in 1999. The piece is a disco re-imagining of Shakespeare's comedy, where lovers get lost and then tricked by the king and queen of the fairies in a forest.

The Donkey Show first ran in London 15 years ago and features acrobats, aerial artists and fire breathers as part of the production. Weiner (producer of Punchdrunk's Sleep No More) and Paulus (Sleep No More and Finding Neverland) bring the production back to London as part of the Shakespeare 400 celebrations.

Weiner said:"We are thrilled that The Donkey Show is returning to the UK. The good people of London have always been our best audience with their great love in equal measure of dancing and Shakespeare. It’s time to put on your dancing shoes and immerse yourselves in our Midsummer Night's Disco."

The production features disco hits including "I Will Survive", "Carwash" and "We Are Family".

The Donkey Show: A Midsummer Night's Disco runs at Proud Camden from 9 June to 21 August.