Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is his most magical and most perfect comedy. It is colourful, spontaneous, poetic, hilariously funny, teasingly sinister, and satisfyingly cyclic.

Our production is set in Victorian Britain. This is based on two modern-day preconceptions of what this famous age was like, which correspond neatly to Shakespeare's Grecian settings. Athens is upper-class nineteenth-century London: It is grey, angular, sensible, mannered, adult. Theseus's court is like a Victorian drawing room, with piles of neatly arranged books, where 'children should be seen and not heard' and the judgement of the father is final.

The Athenian Wood is the rest of London - the Victorian Labyrinth in Technicolour. The darker, more subversive, more alive, more dangerously spontaneous atmosphere of a Dickensian metropolis meets an exotic jungle, an endless wood full of surprises.

With a cast of eleven, and minimalist design coupled with music and dance, The Pembroke Players' production promises to be a dynamic and exciting revival of Shakespeare's classic.

Available on the door or in advance from:
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