A Midsummer Night's Dream

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A Midsummer Night's Dream in Rehearsal

A Midsummer Night's Dream was performed during the 1986-87 RSC season, along with The Fair Maid of the West and Romeo and Juliet.   Performances: Swan Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon 3rd July 1986 - 8th January 1987 Tyne Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 3rd - 7th March 1987 Barbican Theatre, London 13th August 1987 - 18th February 1988

Sean Bean as Robin Starveling, 1986 Picture from The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Click on the photo to see an enlargement. Sean is the character standing in the grey suit. Photographer: Donald Cooper This image may be used for educational purposes only. Any commerical use of this material requires the permission of the copyright holder. Photo from AHDS Centre for the Performing Arts (PADS)

"William Dudley opens the play in what looks like the Berlin Reichschancellery around 1937 and moves it to an Athenian wood which marries Klingsor's Magic Garden to Selfridges' southwest corner window with allusions to Tenniel's 'Alice' and the disorienting botanical dream-world of Richard Dadd." Michael Radcliffe, Observer 13.7.86

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Bill Alexander
Designed by William Dudley
Musical Director John Woolf

Theseus....................................Richard Easton
Hippolyta/Titania..........................Janet McTeer
Egeus......................................Robert Demeger
Hermia.....................................Amanda Harris
Lysander...................................Paul Greenwood
Demetrius..................................Martin Jacobs
Helena.....................................Joely Richardson
Philostrate................................Stanley Dawson
Footmen....................................Malcolm Hassall &
...........................................Roger Moss
Oberon.....................................Gerard Murphy
Puck.......................................Nicholas Woodeson
First Fairy................................Cornelia Hayes
2nd Fairy..................................Jane Lancaster
Peaseblossom...............................Charlotte Williams
Cobweb.....................................Philipa Stanton
Moth.......................................Nichola Swash
Mustardseeed...............................Catherine Fleetwood
Other Fairies..............................Malcolm Hassall
...........................................Roger Moss

Peter Quince...............................David Haig
Nick Bottom................................Pete Postlethwaite
Francis Flute..............................Paul Venables
Tom Snout..................................Donald McBride
Snug.......................................Christopher Ashley
Robin Starveling...........................Sean Bean

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