Hermia loves Lysander and Helena loves Demetrius – but Demetrius is supposed to be marrying Hermia… When the Duke of Athens tries to enforce the marriage, the lovers take refuge in the woods and wander into the midst of a dispute between the king and queen of the fairies. 

Shakespeare put some of his most dazzling dramatic poetry at the service of this teasing, glittering, hilarious and amazingly inventive play, whose seriousness is only fleetingly glimpsed beneath its dreamlike surface. This production employs Renaissance costumes and staging. Olivier Award winner and the newly appointed artistic director of the Globe, Michelle Terry, returns after having previously played the Princess of France in Love's Labour's Lost (2007). The Daily Telegraph dubbed the play' a joyously inventive and touching production and a work that seems particularly close to Shakespeare's heart.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

167 mins

  Playwright

 William Shakespeare

 Director

Dominic Dromgoole

Cast includes

Michelle Terry / John Light / Olivia Ross / Luke Thompson