A Midsummer Night's Dream

This is Shakespeare’s most popular comedy. The story follows
the fortunes of a quartet of lover’s who are lured into the forest
by fairies who trick them with a magic potion that forces them
to fall in love with the first person they see. Sadly the Queen of
Fairies herself takes the potion and when a donkey crosses her
path she falls in love with the beast. This hilarious comedy
explores the madness of love and laughs at human folly. It
contains some of the finest poetry that Shakespeare wrote,
slapstick comedy, touching love scenes, mystery and theatrical
magic. TNT’s production has been an extraordinary global
success, performing hundreds of times across three continents
and even being re- staged in Mandarin. This is Shakespeare
that is easy to understand and enjoy, even for an audience
whose first language is not English. Specially composed music
is woven into the production as is choreography, poetry and
above all comedy, led by one of the Bard’s greatest clowns:
Bottom the hopeless amateur actor.
In A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Shakespeare explores
the idea that love is random, that we are in love with ourselves
rather than the person we supposedly adore, that the eyes
deceive us as to a person’s true worth and the consequences are
sometimes tragic but often comic. The production is directed
by Paul Stebbings and presented by TNT theatre Britain. Their
cycle of Shakespearian classics include HAMLET, MACBETH,
ROMEO & JULIET and the TAMING OF THE SHREW –
productions that have received popular and critical acclaim in
over thirty countries worldwide performing in theatres and
palaces from Tokyo to Berlin and Windsor Castle to Prague
Castle. This is Shakespeare as he might have graced the original
Globe: funny, direct, visual, musical and appealing to any and
every audience.