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Dateline: 10th May, 2006
Indian Dream Comes to Stratford Auditioning over 800 actors, dancers, martial arts experts, musicians and street acrobats from across India and Sri Lanka was the starting point for Tim Supple’s visionary production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream - a co-production between Dash Arts and the British Council.
Following two months of rehearsals in Southern India and a highly acclaimed tour of India’s major cities, the 23 strong cast and creative team will arrive in the UK next month to perform their version of Dream as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival.
The play offers a faithful translation of Shakespeare’s original text and is performed in a mixture of seven languages: Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Marathi, Sinhalese and English.
Drawing on the rich diversity of contemporary India, the production borrows practices from both modern and traditional Indian theatre and storytelling. Through a combination of physical theatre, music and performance, mythic warriors, lovers, artisans and spirits combine in Shakespeare’s masterpiece about social conventions and the madness of love.
Tim Supple said, “India is a hybrid of a dazzling range of influences and so is Shakespeare. I hope you can expect a Dream that is constantly alive, never predictable, always honest, told as if for the first time and performed by an ensemble that in itself offers an experience of the breadth of humanity on show in the fiction of the play.” As part of the programme the company will also create tailor-made outdoor performances for select audiences, including an improvised session for over 250 school children in the grounds of Birmingham University on Tuesday 13 June.
The production runs from the 7th – 17th June in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. RSC Ticket Hotline: 0870 609 1110. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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