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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Project type
Modernised Classic
Date
July 2021
Location
De Vere Latimer Estate
Reviews
“Saw the gorgeous Midsummer Night’s dream by @HelikonTheatre @HazelnotsoLow @mylesogorman last night and had such a great time. Boundlessly imaginative, visually poetic, joyfully queer, anarchically playful with the text, somebody give this team space to tear up more Shakespeares!”
- Naomi Kuyck-Cohen, Theatre & Performance Designer
“It was my first theatre outing in two years and it couldn’t have been better”
- an elderly audience member who emailed in afterwards
"WOW!!! how nice to be watching a live performance! We had such a lovely evening and thought the whole show was amazing – such talent packed into a very engaging and creative play. We all loved it and hope that you will all be back soon."
- Sian (audience member, emailed in afterwards)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By William Shakespeare, with devised additions from the company
De Vere Latimer Estate
July 2021
Performed outdoors by three actors, Helikon Theatre Company breathes life into a riotous new queering of Shakespeare’s treasured classic. Perfect for our time, the dream asks us to imagine a world that’s broken open by a bumpy night in the forest, where anarchy rules and chaos makes us re-examine the natural order of things.
When the night ends and we return from the forest, can we really go back to normal?
Cast & Creative
Performers: Christelle Elwin, Matthew Grainger, Talitha Penny
Writer: William Shakespeare, with additional elements devised by the company
Concept: Hazel Low, Myles O'Gorman and Andy Thornton
Director: Myles O'Gorman
Designer: Hazel Low
Sound Designer and Live Musician: Liam Burgoyne
Stage Manager: Maria Majewska
Producer: Jake Curran-Pipe
Photography: Charles Woollam
