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17.12.2024 – 17.01.2025

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Hosted at:

Barbican Theatre

Location:
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS

 

Tickets from £25 (excludes booking fee).

"A glorious production of Shakespeare's most spellbinding comedy...this truly is a night of fantasy" London Theatre.

With Mathew Baynton (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) as Bottom, this hilarious production of Shakespeare’s captivating comedy will transport you from deepest midwinter to the most magical of midsummer nights.

As four young lovers are faced with the prospect of unhappy marriage or worse, they flee the court of Athens and stumble into an enchanted forest, where the real and fairy worlds collide.

Director Eleanor Rhode returns to the Royal Shakespeare Company with a ‘joyous’ (TimesDream that is magical, mischievous and full of wonder.

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