A Midsummer Night's Dream Trailer
A New Wolsey Theatre production, sponsored by Ashtons Legal.
Sir Trevor Nunn returns to his home town to direct William Shakespeare’s comedy of mismatched love.
Patron of the New Wolsey Theatre, and former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has thus far directed 36 of Shakespeare’s 37 plays, with this production completing the collection.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the Elizabethan writer’s most popular plays, enjoyed worldwide by audiences and school children alike. A play dedicated to magic, amazement, theatrics and passion - it showcases the poetry of Shakespeare in an entertaining and accessible way to all, with plenty of humour and audience asides.
As well as marking the theatre’s 15th birthday year, and concluding Sir Trevor’s repertoire of directing Shakespeare, 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and joins many theatres across the region and UK who will be marking the celebration with groundbreaking productions and festivals.
From 1968 to 1986, he was the youngest ever Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, directing over thirty productions, including most of the Shakespeare canon, as well as Nicholas Nickleby and Les Miserables. From 1997 to 2003, he was Director of the National Theatre, where his productions included Troilus and Cressida, Oklahoma!, The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk, My Fair Lady, The Coast of Utopia, A Streetcar Named Desire, Anything Goes and Love’s Labour’s Lost. He has directed the world premieres of Tom Stoppard’s plays Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia and Rock n Roll; and of Cats, Sunset Boulevard, Starlight Express and Aspects of Love by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other theatre includes The Lady From The Sea (Almeida); Hamlet, Richard II, Inherit the Wind (Old Vic); Cyrano de Bergerac, Kiss Me Kate (Chichester); Heartbreak House, Flare Path, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Tempest (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); A Chorus of Disapproval, All That Fall and Relative Values (West End); The Wars of the Roses (Kingston Rose Theatre); Pericles (TFANA New York).
Libby trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has a 1st Class BA Hons degree in Theatre Design from Wimbledon School of Art. She has designed extensively in the UK and abroad. Libby designed the premiere of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop in the West End which was the winner of 2011 Olivier Award for Best Play.
Recent design credits include:
The Fellowship Hampstead Theatre Tony! the Rock Opera Park Theatre, Bring it On, Queen Elizabeth Hall London,Toast by Nigel Slater, West End and UK tour, Being Mr Wickham live stream and uk tour Dr Faustus, Sam Wanamker Theatre, Trolle and Helt Privat Kilden Theatre, Norway, The Philanthropist, Trafalgar Studios West End, A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, New Wolsey Theatre, Once, Wolsey and Uk tour Daisy Pulls it Off, Park Theatre, Peter Pan, Misi Producciones Bogota Columbia, Fences, West End and Theatre Royal Bath, One Man Two Guvnors and Guys and Dolls, Wolsey Theatre, Les Femmes Savantes, The Miser, Belgrade Theatre , Rudy’s Rare Records, Birmingham Rep and Hackney Empire, Propoganda Swing Belgrade and Nottingham Playhouse, Frankie and Johnny, Chichester Festival Theatre History Boys UK tour, Play Mas Orange Tree. Feed the Beast and Hysteria Birmingham Rep. The Uk Tour of Mustapha Matura’s Three Sisters. For the Kiln Theatre Gem of the Ocean, Blues for Mr Charlie, Radio Golf and The War Next Door. One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show, Sheffield Crucible and uk tour. Blonde Bombshells of 1943 Hampstead Theatre and UK tour. Blest Be The Tie and What’s in the Cat, Royal Court.
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"The verse is handled with microscopic precision as Nunn relocates Shakespeare’s comedy to a world of diplomats and cocktails where Theseus becomes a white-suited Mountbatten figure." ★★★★☆
"The Raj setting for Trevor Nunn’s latest production fits like a glove, making this a really fine midsummer’s night out. It’s a happy homecoming and a mighty achievement" ★★★★☆
"Nunn's stagecraft is magnificent. This is a dream production"
A splendid productio brilliantly cast and played. Is the performance being repeated elsewhere? The captions were very helpful, but we had no card on the back of our seats to put in the bucket!
Pat Deliss