Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Synopsis: Performance of the Watermill Theatre’s touring production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream recorded on videotape at the Harvey Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY. Directed for stage by Ed Hall. The play is performed by Propeller, an all-male company.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 24 Mar 2004
Duration: 145 mins

History: The play opened in the UK in 2003 at the company’s home venue in Newbury, later moving to the Comedy Theatre, London and then to the United States.
Textual information: Performing text edited by Robert Warren.
Reviews: Michael Dobson, Shakespeare Survey 57 (2004), pp258-89 (especially 265). For Ed Hall’s commentary on the production see ‘A Different Creature’, American Theatre 21, no. 3 (2004), p25.

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