A Midsummer Night’s Dream

‘ Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind...’

The Nuffield and Headlong’s re-imagining of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM sets Shakespeare’s best-loved comedy in a 1960s film studio where a Hollywood epic is in the making. Meanwhile Hippolyta’s turbulent off-camera affair with her costar Theseus is fast becoming the love-hate relationship of the century – and it’s not the only romance to have blossomed on set. Passions rise. Tempers fray. And filming is almost complete.

This vivid, thrilling new production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM uses video, movement and music to re-locate Shakespeare’s funniest play in the centre of this magical whirlwind of passion and performance – and asks whether love, like beauty, is really only in the eye of the beholder. Combining Shakespeare’s original text with a rich and cutting edge production, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM follows the previous collaborations between The Nuffield and Headlong Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness and The Winter’s Tale.

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Tour dates

• 3 - 19 February The Nuffield Theatre , Southampton Visit website
• 22 - 26 February New Wolsey Theatre , Ipswich Visit website
• 1 - 12 March Hull Truck Theatre , Hull Visit website
• 15 - 19 March Salisbury Playhouse , Salisbury Visit website
• 22 - 26 March Citizens Theatre , Glasgow Visit website
• 29 March - 2 April Cambridge Arts Theatre , Cambridge Visit website

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