A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Following the success of Three Sisters and Twelfth Night, Filter return to collaborate with Sean Holmes to remix and rework Shakespeare’s classic play. Featuring original music from members of the London Snorkelling Team, this tale of young lovers and warring fairies is given a unique and irreverent twist.
3.5 out of 5 based on 8 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Location |
London |
| Venue |
Lyric Hammersmith |
| Director |
Sean Holmes |
| Cast |
Jonathan Broadbent, Ed Gaughan, John Lightbody, Simon Manyonda, Poppy Miller, Victoria Moseley, Alan Pagan, Ferdy Roberts, Rebecca Scroggs Chris Branch |
| From |
February 2012 |
| Until |
March 2012 |
| Box Office |
0871 22 117 29 |
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Following the success of Three Sisters and Twelfth Night, Filter return to collaborate with Sean Holmes to remix and rework Shakespeare’s classic play. Featuring original music from members of the London Snorkelling Team, this tale of young lovers and warring fairies is given a unique and irreverent twist.
Reviews
The Independent on Sunday
Kate Bassett
"What's startling is how Filter manage to be at once tongue-in-cheek and magical, rocking and insightful. "
19/02/2012
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The Stage
Heather Neill
"Shakespeare’s play is about the confusion of love, about being at the mercy of the whims of others. Here the pleasure is doubled as the actors playing the young lovers, Titania, the Mechanicals and Bottom appear not to know what is coming any more than their characters."
17/02/2012
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The Daily Telegraph
Charles Spencer
"A staging of the Dream in which everything that can go wrong, does go wrong. Large portions of the set are demolished in the course of the show, trapdoors open up to tremendous comic effect and the contents of a couple of Sainsbury’s carrier bags are deployed in the finest food fight I have encountered since the golden age of the St Trinian’s films."
17/02/2012
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Time Out
Andrzej Lukowski
"Pyrotechnically silly, and though the cast are all excellent verse speakers, the turbocharged pace and glut of sight gags will probably leave anyone unfamiliar with the plot a little confused. They should still laugh, however: highbrow this is not."
20/02/2012
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The Evening Standard
Henry Hitchings
"In all its deranged freshness, this is perhaps best characterised as Shakespeare for people who think they don't like it. If you enjoy your Renaissance drama with an enormous side order of puerility, this is for you."
17/02/2012
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The Financial Times
Sarah Hemming
"The show certainly catches the buzzy disorientation in the play and the descent into chaos once lust takes hold. As the characters are anointed with the juice from Oberon’s magic flower, they are smeared with blue ink. By the end of the night, most of the cast are bright blue, dishevelled, half-dressed and covered in food from the fight that ensues between the lovers. It’s often very funny and there are some brilliant ideas."
22/02/2012
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The Independent
Paul Taylor
"Uncharacteristically, the show feels pleased with itself out of proportion to its comic discoveries. There's a spectacular food-fight which puts the humble orange Sainsbury's bag in a new light. An anxious Irish Quince tells us at the start that in one hour and 42 minutes "You'll be wishing you'd gone to see One Man, Two Guvnors." They must be very confident that no one will call their bluff."
21/02/2012
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The Times
Libby Purves
"This mash-up of Shakespeare’s mellow comedy is not Filter’s finest hour ... As a reinterpretation of the play it exposes nothing in particular, and spends rather too much time doubled up in amusement at itself, preening at its own artful “spontaneity” and introducing a not-very-exciting surprise celebrity guest as Bottom."
19/02/2012
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