A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Company:
Royal Shakespeare Company
That is hot ice and wondrous strange snow.
How shall we find the concord of this discord?
On Midsummer’s Night, the real and fairy worlds collide. Four young lovers, faced with the prospect of unhappy marriage or worse, flee the court of Athens and stumble into an enchanted forest. Nearby, a group of amateur actors rehearse a play to celebrate an upcoming royal wedding.
As these mere mortals cross paths with a warring fairy king and queen, chaos reigns in the natural world. The lines between reality and appearance start to blur and no-one but mischievous Puck knows what is true and what is magic.
Director Eleanor Rhode (King John) returns to the RSC.
