Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2002 touring production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Directed by Richard Jones with Tim McMullan as Oberon and Volanda Vazquez as Titania.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2002
Duration: 135 mins

General: This was Richard Jones’ first production for the RSC; he had previously worked mainly in opera.

‘Richard Jones’s spiky, anti-tinsel, non-cajoling production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It’s often perverse, over-designed and underacted. But it taps into something important. In giving us the Bard as Goth, and putting the ‘witch’ back into bewitching, it reminds us how dark and disturbing this play - Shakespeare’s most beguiling - can be.' Susannah Clapp The Observer 24 February 2002.

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History: Press night 20 February 2002. First previews cancelled.
Reviews: Dobson. Michael. Shakespeare Survey 56 (2003), pp256-86 (esp. p 264).

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
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