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The full cast has been revealed for the return of Nicholas Hytner's immersive [*A Midsummer Night’s Dream*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/15026-a-midsummer-night-s-dream) at the Bridge Theatre in London. The limited run begins on 31 May, running until 20 August.

Joining the previously announced JJ Feild as Oberon/Theseus, Susannah Fielding as Titania/Hippolyta, Emmanuel Akwafo as Bottom and David Moorst as Puck/Philostrate, are Paul Adeyefa as Demetrius, Hilson Agbangbe as Starveling, Bella Aubin as Peasebottom, Jemima Brown as Fairy, Nina Cassells as Hermia, Kat Collings as Moth, Adam Cunis as understudy, Ali Goldsmith as Cobweb, Hollie Hales as understudy, Molly Hewitt-Richards as Snug, Felicity Montagu as Quince, Lennin Nelson-McClure as Mustardseed, Divesh Subaskaran as Lysander, and David Webber as Egeus. 

Jem Rose, Dominic Semwanga, and Lily Simpkiss all make their professional debuts as Snout, Flute, and Helena, respectively.

The creative team has production design by Bunny Christie, costumes by Christina Cunningham with additional costumes by Christie, lighting by Bruno Poet, sound design by Paul Arditti, music by Grant Olding and movement by Arlene Phillips. James Cousins is co-director and co-movement director, while Susanna Peretz is hair and makeup designer.

Hytner's version of Shakespeare's story of love, dreams, jealousy, and mischief was first produced at The Bridge in 2019. The show's immersive format allows 400 people to stand close to the action, with 670 seats wrapped around.

Book [*A Midsummer Night's Dream* tickets](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/15026-a-midsummer-night-s-dream) on LondonTheatre.co.uk

*Photo credit: artwork for A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Courtesy of production)*

Ages 5+. Children under 16 must be accompanied by a ticket holder aged 18+. Under 11s must have a seated ticket and will not be permitted in the standing area. 

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*A Midsummer Night's Dream* in London was highly praised during its run at the Bridge Theatre in 2019. As the [New York Times said](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/theater/midsummer-nights-dream-bridge-london.html), "Nicholas Hytner's production at Bridge Theatre in London finds something fresh in a work that sometimes feels as if it's being done out of duty."

This year's enchanting staging is brought to the Bridge Theatre stage by the same expert creative team as the 2019 staging, including design by Bunny Christie (*Tammy Faye*), costume design by Christina Cunningham (*A Minute Too Late*), lighting design by Bruno Poet (*Richard II*), and sound design by Paul Arditti (*Stranger Things: The First Shadow*). 

*A Midsummer Night's Dream* is a play written in 1595 or 1596. Inspiration for this play was drawn from numerous sources, including Chaucer's *The Knight's Tale*, English folklore's fairies, Ovid's *Metamorphoses*, and more. This powerful play has been staged countless times and has also been adapted into many other creative works, including musicals, films, radio, and paintings. 

Joining the previously announced JJ Feild as Oberon/Theseus, Susannah Fielding as Titania/Hippolyta, Emmanuel Akwafo as Bottom and David Moorst as Puck/Philostrate, are Paul Adeyefa as Demetrius, Hilson Agbangbe as Starveling, Bella Aubin as Peasebottom, Jemima Brown as Fairy, Nina Cassells as Hermia, Kat Collings as Moth, Adam Cunis as understudy, Ali Goldsmith as Cobweb, Hollie Hales as understudy, Molly Hewitt-Richards as Snug, Felicity Montagu as Quince, Lennin Nelson-McClure as Mustardseed, Divesh Subaskaran as Lysander, and David Webber as Egeus.

Jem Rose, Dominic Semwanga, and Lily Simpkiss all make their professional debuts as Snout, Flute, and Helena, respectively.

## What to watch for

- While the name suggests that the play's story takes place over one night, the story actually unfolds over a four-night period. 
- *A Midsummer Night's Dream* utilizes the literary device of a play within a play when amateur actors perform *Pyramus and Thisbe*. 
- In 1999, Walt Disney Television Animation created a short animated version of *A Midsummer Night's Dream*. 
- The first recorded criticism of *A Midsummer Night's Dream* was by Samuel Pepys in his diary in 1662. 

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Following its smash hit run in 2019 at the Bridge Theatre, *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, directed by Nicholas Hytner, returns to the stage. This enchanted comedy follows the collision of young lovers and amateur actors in the Fairyland realm. 


Step into a magical world of fairies and fogs in the beloved Shakespearean classic, *A Midsummer Night's Dream*. Book *A Midsummer Night's Dream* tickets on London Theatre. 

[This is for *A Midsummer Night's Dream* seated immersive tickets. Book *A Midsummer Night's Dream* standing tickets here.](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/15026-a-midsummer-night-s-dream&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1743019087155421&usg=AOvVaw21gYJ0K0ycN6XLZD55CX8Z)

With these seated tickets, audiences will be wrapped around the action, watching the tale of love and mischief unfold directly in front of them. Set in Athens and the magical woodland outside the city, this comedic play follows lovers as well as  amateur actors who are rehearsing a play that they are going to perform before the wedding. Together, they end up in the Fairyland realm, which leads to the unexpected. 

*A Midsummer Night's Dream* is a play starring JJ Feild (*Ring Round The Moon*), Susannah Fielding (*The Crossing Plays*), Emmanuel Akwafo (*As You Like It*), and David Moorst (*To Kill A Mockingbird*). 

This staging is led by director Nicholas Hytner, who first staged *A Midsummer Night's Dream* at the Bridge Theatre in 2019. The production was loved by audiences and critics alike. 

[Variety's review of the production said](https://variety.com/2019/legit/reviews/a-midsummer-nights-dream-review-gwendoline-christie-1203248895/), "Hytner's strength with Shakespeare has always been creating credible worlds."

*A Midsummer Night's Dream* in London has a fantastic creative team from the 2019 staging, which includes designer Bunny Christie (*Tammy Faye*), costume designer Christina Cunningham (*A Minute Too Late*), lighting designer Bruno Poet (*Richard II*), and sound designer Paul Arditti (*Stranger Things: The First Shadow*).

Written in 1595 or 1596, *A Midsummer Night's Dream* has since been performed countless times throughout the world and has become one of Shakespeare's most well-known plays. One of the many notable stagings was in 1970 by Peter Brook, who utilized a white cube setting and trapezes. 

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Step into a magical world of fairies and fogs in the beloved Shakespearean classic, *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*. This staging is led by director Nicholas Hytner, who first staged *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* at the Bridge Theatre in 2019 to critical and audience acclaim. 


The <a href="/theatres/the-bridge-theatre">Bridge</a> is billing its new production of <a href="/show/a-midsummer-nights-dream-bridge-theatre">A Midsummer Night's Dream</a> as immersive, but in fact it's just old-fashioned promenade for the groundlings in the pit, who mill around or are shunted about a bit as the actors appear on various platforms that rise and descend around them, mostly containing variations of beds, or occasionally take to the air on bungee-like circus trapezes. The rest of the audience is seated in galleries around the full perimeter of the playing space.This is hardly as radical as it seems to want to position itself, but director Nick Hytner (a co-founder of the <a href="/theatres/the-bridge-theatre">Bridge</a>) is a past master at accessible contemporary Shakespeare, and as with his similarly promenade Julius Caesar at this address last year, he and his fellow creative team of designers from that production keep the show fast and fluid, fun and occasionally surprising.Though Gwendoline Christie (best known for TV's Games of Thrones, in which she played the warrior Brienne of Tarth) is the "star" attraction - and takes the star position of silently standing in a glass-encased box as the audience files in - this is very much an ensemble show, with diverse casting to the fore.This makes the aesthetic more like a show out of Emma Rice's tenure at the Globe, where she staged an irreverent, crowd-pleasing version of Dream in 2016. This production, which has movement direction by Arlene Phillips, comes complete with&nbsp;Beyoncé's Love on Top played at the end as a giant bouncy ball is flung around the auditorium that reminded me of Slava's Snowshow.So even some of its most novel-seeming aspects feel a bit second-hand. Still, there are still some innovative touches, like having Oberon and not Titania fall for Hammed Animashaun's Bottom when he is transformed into a donkey.Oliver Chris and David Moorst undergo more sprightly transformations as Theseus/Oberon and Puck respectively, with a bare-chested Chris finding a sexual charge in his seduction by Bottom and Moorst bringing a playful energy to Puck as he hangs upside down from the bungee rope.You hardly need to wait ages for a production of this play to come around in London, but a second one is about to open at Regent's Park's Open Air Theatre, where the forest glade-like setting will provide its own sense of immersive theatre rather than the rather forced one here. &nbsp;The production will also be broadcast to over 700 UK cinemas on October 17th, where the cameras will no doubt take audiences into the heart of the action as a gallery seat doesn't. I'm tempted to see it again then.<hr /><a href="/show/a-midsummer-nights-dream-bridge-theatre">A Midsummer Night's Dream</a> is at the <a href="/theatres/the-bridge-theatre">Bridge Theatre</a> until 31st August.Photo credit: Manuel Harlan

Review - A Midsummer Night's Dream starring Gwendoline Christie at the Bridge Theatre

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This beguiling comedy of enchantment and transformation is brought to life within a dream-like woodland filled with feuding fairies, eloping lovers and a hapless troupe of actors.

Return to the forest this summer – a dream world of ying fairies, contagious fogs and moonlight revels. The seating is wrapped around the action while the immersive tickets allow the story to be followed on foot.


Ages 5+. Under 12s are not allowed in the standing area. Under 16s in the standing or seated areas must be accompanied by an adult. Children aged 5-11 must watch from a seat with an adult. Children under 5 will not be admitted.

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The Bridge Theatre is a state-of-the-art theatre venue located in London's vibrant Southwark district, near the iconic Tower Bridge. It was opened in 2017, and has quickly established itself as a hub for innovative and engaging productions, attracting high-profile directors, writers and actors from around the world. The venue boasts a contemporary design with sleek interiors and comfortable seating. It offers a rotating repertory program, featuring a variety of performances from new productions to classic plays and musicals. The Bridge Theatre is especially renowned for its immersive staging, which allows for a unique, close-up theatre experience. High-tech acoustics and lighting further contribute to the world-class performances that audiences have come to expect at this venue.\n\n**Getting to the Bridge Theatre**\nIt's easily accessible by public transport. The nearest tube station is London Bridge, which is just a short walk away. Numerous bus routes also stop nearby. For those driving, there's a Q-Park car park in Butlers Wharf, which offers discounted parking rates for theatre goers when booked in advance. The area is well served by cycle lanes, and Santander Cycles docking stations can be found nearby. The theatre encourages green travel and recommends walking or cycling where possible.

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Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr spearhead the Bridge Theatre. Having worked together at the [National Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/national-theatre) for over a decade as artistic and executive directors, Hytner and Starr formed the London Theatre Company as part of their efforts to open the largest Off-West End commercial theatre. The 900-seater auditorium is very adaptable and allows shows to be presented in end-on, thrust and promenade formats. 

Production aside, the theatre was praised for its abundance of ladies toilets and its on-site kitchen which, among other things, provides treats freshly baked on site during the interval. 

In 2017, the theatre's inaugural season included a new Richard Bean play *Young Marx*, starring [Rory Kinnear](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/actor-profile/rory-kinnear) and Oliver Chris, *Julius Caesar* starring Ben [Whishaw](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/actor-profile/ben-whishaw) and David Calder, and a new play by Nina Raine about the life of JS Bach starring [Simon Russell Beale](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/actor-profile/simon-russell-beale).

Notable plays at the Bridge Theatre include *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,* as well as *My Name is Lucy Barton* and *Straight Line Crazy* — the latter two both transferring to New York.

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Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr founded the London Theatre Company, spearheading the adaptable 900-seater Bridge Theatre, known for its facilities and notable productions.

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The Bridge Theatre is a modern theatre venue in London, known for its immersive productions, and is accessible by numerous transport options.

Full cast announced for 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' at the Bridge Theatre

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