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Opera: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Royal Northern College of Music. Nominations: Cosi Fan Tutte, Giovanna d'Arco, The Marriage of Figaro; Design: Tree Of Codes at the Opera House. Nominations: Inkheart, Moominland Midwinter, The Oresteia, New Play: The Rolling Stone (Chris Urch), Royal Exchange, Manchester.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers.
The 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production of A Midsummer Night's Dream was directed by Peter Brook, and is often known simply as Peter Brook's Dream. It opened in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon and then moved to the Aldwych Theatre in London's West End in 1971. It was taken on a world tour in 1972–1973.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Hermia: 1969 Age of Consent: Cora Ryan 1970 Red Hot Shot: Unknown ... Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 1980, then The Roundhouse, London ...
A Midsummer Nights Dream: Hermia: Peter Hall: Rose Theatre, Kingston [38] Charley's Aunt: Kitty Verdun Braham Murray: Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester [39] 2010-11 The Rivals: Julia Peter Hall Haymarket Theatre, London [40] UK Tour 2011 Richard III: Lady Anne Sam Mendes: Old Vic Theatre, London [41] World Tour 2012 Antigone: Ismene Polly Findlay
The Dream is a one-act ballet adapted from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with choreography by Frederick Ashton to music by Mendelssohn arranged by John Lanchbery.It was premiered by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 2 April 1964 in a triple bill with Kenneth MacMillan's Images of Love and Robert Helpmann's Hamlet.
The mechanicals are six characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream who perform the play-within-a-play Pyramus and Thisbe. They are a group of amateur and mostly incompetent actors from around Athens , looking to make names for themselves by having their production chosen among several acts as the courtly entertainment for the royal wedding party ...
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester: 2008 The Portrait of a Lady: Goodwood UK Tour 2010 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Nick Bottom: Rose Theatre, Kingston: 2011 One Man, Two Guvnors: Stanley Stubbers Royal National Theatre (Lyttelton Stage) + UK 2011 Tour + Adelphi Theatre + Broadway: 2014 Great Britain: Asst. Commissioner Donald Doyle Davidson