Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2005 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Directed by Gregory Doran with Amanda Harris as Titania and Joe Dixon as Oberon. Directors of Puppetry are Rachel Leonard and Steve Tiplady.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2005
Duration: 160 (inc.20min interval)

Director

Gregory Doran

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Paul Englishby

Production Design

Stephen Brimson Lewis

Contributor

Rachel Leonard; Steve Tiplady

Cast

History: Press night 11 April 2005. The production also played at the Novello Theatre, London February 2-25 2006. The production was redesigned for The Courtyard in 2008 and presented with a different cast. This production is catalogued separately.
Reviews: http://www.rsc.org.uk/exploringshakespeare/dstagingchoices/default.htm
The site offer insights into the backstage work supporting the performance, and the director and designer speak about working together in preparing the world for the actors to inhabit. The look of this production is compared with earlier RSC interpretations. The designer talks about the development of his ideas set changes. There is information on the choices made over costume and fairy transformation and demonstrations of the use of puppets, an individual feature of this production.

Nelson, Paul. Shakespeare Bulletin 23, no. 4 (20050 pp 78-81.

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
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