A Midsummer Night’s Dream

by Willam Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy about love; love that is bound up in magic and ritual, a highly erotic fertility rite that is full of mishap and danger but still has a happy ending. Described as a celebration about what constitutes a couple, it explores fear and the relationship between love and imagination.

– Jessica Meme

In an contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, using the classic language of the play, Lysander, a passionate Athenian woman, is in love with her lady, Hermia – to the outrage of Hermia’s father and Athenian society. Meanwhile, Helena, a lovesick young man, is desperately trying to court Demetrius, who, determined to restore heteronormality, wants to marry Hermia.

Escaping to the woods to avoid the strict moral code of Athens, the four lovers are caught up in the Fairyland: a gender-queer, sexually free, chaotic Shangri-La – where nothing is as it seems, and love has no boundaries.

A Midsummer Nights Dream is being developed by Sarah Dunn and Edwin Kemp Attrill for full production in 2010

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Work-in-progress moved reading:

23rd November 2009

9pm at Higher Ground (60mins + post-show discussion)

Adapted by          Sarah Dunn and Edwin Kemp Attrill     

Director                Sarah Dunn

Co-Director          Edwin Kemp Attrill