A Midsummer Night’s Dream

For probably obvious reasons, the Globe has tended to stage Shakespeare’s best loved comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the actual summer: aside from the synergy with the elements, it tends to be the case that the smaller indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is better suited to the Bard’s less popular plays. Anyway, long story short, the Wanamaker is finally staging its first Dream, in a co-production with the dynamic Headlong touring company. Headlong boss Holly Race-Roughan co-directs with Naeem Hayat: we don’t know a lot more about it beyond that, but as befits a production that will run over midwinter, we’re promised that it’ll dig into the darker side of the story.