A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night’s Dream performed by Illyria Outdoor Theatre.

In Illyria’s 25th anniversary season this inimitable company reprises the show they performed in their very first year. Five couples – three human, one fairy, and one mythical – find their relationships sorely tested, intimately probed and indecently exposed when a troupe of amateur theatricals bumble into the forest to rehearse a play. Add to this bawdy mix a heady brew of confusion, magic and mischief, and you have the most perfectly frothy comedy for a moonlit summer evening.

Since the company’s first production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM in 1992 they have won no less than 4 international theatre awards, and still performShakespeare to their original brief: using the First Folio script, entirely uncut, with just 5 quick-changing, fast-running actors sharing all the roles between them. For 25 years they’ve gained an unmatched reputation for clarity: of speech, of character and of storytelling; and for rooting out the comedy in Shakespeare’s plays, sometimes in the most unexpected of places.

Although the company follows many Elizabethan performance practices, Illyria is proud to have left all-male casting back in the 16th century (where it belongs),adopting instead a more up-to-date policy of casting both male and female actors.

Illyria is compliant with the Equity Outdoor Touring Theatre Guidelines.

Tickets:

£12 per adult, £8 per child

Book online, at the Visitor Welcome Point or call 01803 607230.

For more information visit http://www.cockingtoncourt.org/whats-on/a-midsummer-nights-dream-p2028093