Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Synopsis: Live audio recording of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Robert Lepage with Jeffrey Kissoon as Oberon and Sally Dexter as Titania.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Audio
Recording date: 17 Sep 1992

Notes: Owing to the indisposition of Allan Mitchell, the part of Theseus was played by Trevor Thomas in this recording, and that of Egeus by Abraham Osuagwu.
History: Opening night 3 July 1992
Stills: "Is it no man’s land after the Battle of the Somme? Is it Bangladesh after a tidal wave? Could it be - the scuttling, crablike figure with legs where arms should be, and vice versa, would seem to suggest so - a pond prepared for David Attenborough? No, it is Athens as it has been re-imagined by Robert Lepage and his designer, Michael Levine, for the most original Dream since Peter Brook’s version two decades ago, and the most strange and disturbing since - but there I have no memory to match it." Benedict Nightingale, The Times (11 July 1992)
Reviews: Billington, Michael. Guardian (11 July 1992) p. 26

British Universities Film & Video Council