A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Even by the standards of what is surely the most staged English language play in history, the Globe is conceivably setting a new record by mounting two productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream within three months of each other. Still, as is the way with this most flexible of plays, thety should be pretty DIFFERENT to each other. While the indoor production that wrapped up at the end of January in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse was almost bizarrely bleak, this one sounds like the exact opposite, being billed as ‘a joyful, family-friendly night of mischief, wonder and transformation under starry, summer skies’. It’s being directed by Emily Lim, whose work tends to revolve around large scale community theatre projects, so she’s an intriguing choice to open the theatre’s outdoor summer season. Casting is currently TBA.