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 ... Things are also simplified by Oberon/Theseus (Andrew Richardson, Uncle Vanya) and Titania/Hippolyta (Sirine Saba, BBC ...

Andrew Richardson’s Oberon – in contrast to his oily Theseus – is ... This then – unlike Nicholas Hytner’s 2019 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridge Theatre, which acknowledged the ...

William Shakespeare Royal Shakespeare Company Barbican Centre 3 December 2024 – 18 January 2025 ...

Andrew Richardson’s Oberon has seemingly wandered straight out of Adam and The Ants’ Prince Charming, while his version of Duke Theseus owes a country-sized debt to King Charles. It's a ...

This strikes 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 nuance here; in the way the lovers get ...

Now starring in that company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – having made his name ... and is this month taking over the twin parts of Oberon and Theseus in the London transfer of Eleanor ...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Rocks is so creatively and ingeniously ... as everyone from the leads to the large clans of Oberon’s and Titania’s fairies excelled. Chi-Yee Lim (Helena) and ...