Hermia’s a punky Scot, Lysander a rude boy, Demetrius a Hooray in a Barbour, Helena a sultry, passionate New Romantic in ...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most familiar ... for cockney geezer Lysander (Ryan Hutton, Only Fools and Horses the Musical). Things are also simplified by Oberon/Theseus ...
That undercurrent of violence is something that underpins the lovers’ scenes, in which the punkish Hermia and Lysander are the clear rebels ... Nicholas Hytner’s 2019 production of A Midsummer Night’s ...
Hermia’s a punky Scot, Lysander a rude boy ... me as an oblique reference to Peter Brook’s stark, groundbreaking Dream from 1970: if so, the show wears it lightly. There’s lots of nice ...
William Shakespeare Royal Shakespeare Company Barbican Centre 3 December 2024 – 18 January 2025 ...
There’s great physical comedy from Ryan Hutton as a strutting Lysander, counterpointed by Nicholas Armfield’s stiffly wax-jacketed brown-nose, Demetrius. Boadicea Ricketts gives Helena real ...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Rocks is so creatively and ingeniously ... Armstrong were a great double act as sparring love rivals Lysander and Demetrius and Polly Belcher (Hermia), Eleanor Mead ...
Kings, queens, fairies, lovers, and sprites all collide in an enchanted forest one midsummer night proving that “the course of true love never did run smooth.” One of Shakespeare’s most ...