The production will run at the theatre from the 5th to the 27th September.
Casting has now been announced for the Southwark Playhouse’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Toby Hulse.
Bringing the story to life will be: Martin Bassindale (Hellboy: The Crooked Man), Daisy Ann Fletcher (The Doncastrian Chalk Circle, National Theatre and CAST), Fintan Hayeck (Sleeping Beauty, Oxford Playhouse), Lara Grace Ilori (Up(Beat), Southwark Playhouse Borough), Andy Umerah (Ted Lasso, Apple TV) and Dewi Wykes (The Famous Five – A New Musical, Chichester Festival Theatre) will portray the Jenkins’ siblings, who inadvertently bring magic into their family home when retelling the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
London, 1905. On a wet and dreary afternoon, the Jenkins siblings decide to put on a play to stave off their boredom.
Nancy insists it should feature a Queen and have at least sixteen characters. Robert will only join in if he gets to die a horrible death, and reckons there should be some pirates. And Cecil wants to be a lion. And a fairy.
There can’t possibly be a story mad enough to fit all of this in, surely?
Talking about the show, director Toby Hulse said: “The story that is told in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is universal, and, as human beings, we haven’t changed all that much. We still do foolish things when we fall in and out of love; we still want to believe in happy endings; and we are still a little bit frightened by things that go bump in the night. What is exciting about the play is that it has all sorts of humour in it, from the sort of painful observation of human behaviour that we might expect from The Office, to the sort of daft slapstick we might expect from The Chuckle Brothers, to the sort of outright nonsense we might expect from Morecambe and Wise. This will be a production for everyone – those who know the play and those who don’t, Shakespeare-lovers and Bard-a-phobes, regular theatre-goers and those coming to see it for the very first time.”
Running at the Southwark Playhouse’s Borough venue this September, the creative team includes: Georgie White (Set and Costume Designer), Will Monks (Lighting Design) and Fraser Owen (Sound Design).
To book tickets visit: https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/a-midsummer-nights-dream/